Wiener Neustädter Friedhof
The Wiener Neustädter Friedhof is the municipal cemetery of the city of Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria .
history
A first cemetery in the city, founded in 1192, was mentioned in 1194 on the main square near today's Grätzl buildings near the former St. Niklas chapel. The second cemetery was built around the Wiener Neustadt Cathedral , consecrated in 1279 , where burials took place until around 1780/1790. Because groundwater contamination was feared, the third cemetery was built in the church village of Sankt Ulrich, southwest of the former fortress wall in the area of today's Ferdinand-Porsche-Ring and Bräunlichgasse.
In May 1865, by resolution of the town council under Mayor Johann Baptist Kindler, the cemetery was moved to the outer Wiener Straße after the Augen -Gottes -Bau in the north of the city. In 1866, cholera raged in Wiener Neustadt . The deceased victims were the first to be buried in the fourth cemetery. Building material from the demolition of the Wiener-Tor of the Wiener Neustadt city fortification was used for the enclosure wall . The cemetery was only consecrated in 1873. In the following years, exhumations and the relocation of graves from the old to the new cemetery took place.
In 1910 the cemetery was expanded to include the military cemetery. In 1927 an urn grove was created.
During the Second World War the cemetery was badly damaged by the bombing; it took years to restore the cemetery. A memorial and burial site for fallen Red Army soldiers was also built. In 1972 the inadequate urn grove was closed and a new urn grove opened.
Cemetery chapel
The cemetery chapel was built from 1908 to 1910 according to the plans of the architect Richard Jordan .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Wiener Neustadt, Friedhöfe, Stadtfriedhof, p. 2680.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 36.7 " N , 16 ° 14 ′ 48.7" E