Vyšehrad cemetery
The Vyšehrad Cemetery ( Czech : Vyšehradský hřbitov ) is the most famous cemetery in the city of Prague . It was built in 1869 on the site of the Vyšehrad Castle. The cemetery is known as the final resting place of numerous important personalities of the Czech nation. The composers Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana , the Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha and the Nobel Prize winner Jaroslav Heyrovský are buried in the cemetery. There are also graves of other well-known personalities of Czech origin in the cemetery area.
In the middle of the cemetery is the Slavín monument by the sculptor Antonín Wiehl , which serves as a mausoleum and final resting place for particularly deserving personalities of the Czech people.
Personalities
Well-known personalities buried in the Vyšehrad cemetery include:
- Mikoláš Aleš (1852–1913), painter
- Karel Ančerl (1908–1973), conductor
- Josef Bican (1913-2001), footballer
- Vlasta Burian (1891–1962), actor
- Karel Čapek (1890–1938), writer
- Zdeněk Chalabala (1899–1962), conductor
- Antonín Chittussi (1847-1891), painter
- Ema Destinová (Ema Destinnová, 1878–1930), opera singer
- Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), composer
- Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900), composer
- Eduard Haken (1910–1996), opera singer
- Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959
- František Hrubín (1910–1971), writer
- Bohumil Kafka (1878–1942), sculptor
- Jan Krejčí (1825–1887), geologist and member of the Imperial Council
- Rafael Kubelík (1914–1996), conductor and composer
- Vilém Kurz (1872–1945), pianist
- Karel Hynek Mácha (1810-1836), poet
- Hana Mašková (1949–1972), figure skater
- Waldemar Matuška (1932–2009), singer and actor
- Alfons Mucha (1860–1939), painter
- Josef Václav Myslbek (1848–1922), sculptor
- Zdeněk Nejedlý (1878–1962), historian, musicologist and politician
- Božena Němcová (1820–1862), writer
- Jan Neruda (1834–1891), journalist and writer
- Willi Nowak (1886–1977), painter, lithographer and university professor
- Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935), composer
- Karel Purkyně (1834–1868), painter
- Olga Scheinpflugová (1902–1968), actress
- Václav Smetáček (1906–1986), conductor and composer
- Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), composer
- Ladislav Šaloun (1870–1946), sculptor
- Pavel Štěpán (1925–1998), pianist
- Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová (1899–1975), pianist
- Josef Suk (violinist) (1929–2011), violinist
- Josef Suk (composer) (1874–1935), composer
- Max Švabinský (1873–1962), painter
- Valter Taub (1907–1982), actor
- Jaroslav Drbohlav (1947–1985), actor
A cenotaph was erected in 2000 for the resistance fighter and women's rights activist Milada Horáková (1901–1950), who fell victim to Stalinist persecution . Her actual remains are on the grounds of the Strašnice crematorium.
literature
- Pavel Vlk (ed.): Umělecké památky Prahy. Volume 2: Růžena Baťková (ed.): Nové Město, Vyšehrad, Vinohrady (Praha 1). Academia, Prague 1998, ISBN 80-2000627-3 .
See also
Web links
- Website with a plan of the Vyšehrad cemetery
- List of well-known personalities buried in the Vyšehrad cemetery
- Official website of the Slavin Monument (in Czech)
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '52.7 " N , 14 ° 25' 4.4" E