Brno Central Cemetery
The Central Cemetery ( Ústřední hřbitov in Czech ) is the largest and most important cemetery in the Czech city of Brno . It is located in the cadastral municipality of Štýřice . On the northwestern edge of the cemetery is the crematorium, opposite to the east is a memorial to the Soviet soldiers who died in the liberation of the city in the Second World War .
history
The central cemetery was built in 1883 according to the plans of Alois Prastorfer and expanded several times over the years. At the cemetery grounds 1924-1926 by the architect was Bohuslav Fuchs designed ceremonial hall and a little later the Brno crematorium Arnost Wiesner ( 1925 - 1930 ) built.
A memorial was built in the southern part of the cemetery between 1945 and 1946. There are graves of resistance fighters against National Socialism, a Soviet and a Romanian military cemetery . The cemetery of honor is dominated by a columbarium with urns for Soviet officers. The cemetery of honor was declared a national cultural monument in 1989.
In 1993 a German military cemetery was opened, the construction of which began between 1967 and 1968. 3500 Wehrmacht soldiers are buried here.
Today the central cemetery covers an area of 56 hectares and is therefore the largest burial site in the Czech Republic with currently around 80,000 graves. Around 400,000 people were buried here in 2014.
Personalities
The following people are buried in the cemetery:
- Karel Absolon (1877–1960) - speleologist and archaeologist
- Břetislav Bakala (1897–1958) - composer
- Inocenc Arnošt Bláha (1879–1960) - sociologist
- Ivan Blatný (1919–1990) - poet
- Lev Blatný (1894–1930) - playwright
- Otakar Borůvka (1899–1995) - mathematician
- Vincenc Brandl (1834–1901) - historian and archivist
- Gustav Brom (1921–1995) - conductor
- Osvald Chlubna (1893–1971) - composer
- Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829) - founder of the written Czech language
- Rudolf Firkušný (1912–1994) - piano virtuoso
- Bohuslav Fuchs (1895–1972) - architect
- Josef Hybeš (1850–1921) - politician
- Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) - composer
- Václav Kaprál (1889–1947) - composer
- Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940) - composer
- Kurt Knispel (1921–1945) - German tank commander
- Emil Králík (1880–1946) - architect
- Pavel Křížkovský (1820–1885) - composer
- Jiří Kroha (1893–1974) - architect
- Lubor Lacina (1920–1998) - architect
- Jiří Mahen (1882–1939) - writer
- Karel Jaroslav Maška (1851-1916) - paleontologist
- Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) - founder of genetics
- Josef Merhaut (1863–1907) - writer
- Oldřich Mikulášek (1910–1985) - poet
- Vlastimil Moravec (1949–1986) - cyclist
- Alois Mrštík (1861-1925) - writer
- Arne Novák (1880–1939) - literary scholar
- Zdeněk Pluhař (1913–1991) - writer
- Josef Polášek (1899–1946) - architect
- Antonín Procházka (1882–1945) - painter
- Jan Skácel (1922–1989) - poet
- Bohumír Štědroň (1905–1982) - musicologist
- Rudolf Těsnohlídek (1882–1928) - writer
- František Alexandr Zach (1807-1892) - military theorist and Serb general
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pohřebiště padlých německých vojáků Entry in the online encyclopedia on the history of the city of Brno (Czech)
- ↑ Milena Flodrová: Ústřední hřbitov města Brna Entry in the online encyclopedia on the history of the city of Brno (Czech)
- ^ After Jiří Endler: Příběhy brněnských hřbitovů . Brno 2010.
