Heiligenstädter Friedhof
The cemetery Heiligenstadt is a cemetery in the 19th district of Vienna Dobling.
- 3.1 Honorary Half devoted graves
- 3.2 graves of other personalities
Location
The cemetery is located on the Holy City Schreiberbach at the southern foot of the planted with vineyards Nussberg between the Viennese winegrowers villages Grinzing and nut village. He has the address 19, Wildgrubgasse 20 The cemetery is on the south and west limits of Wildgrubgasse and pushes to the east by loosely used in construction residential area. To the north of the cemetery is a plot of land that is used for viticulture. The cemetery covers an area of 20,315 square meters and is home to 2,655 grave sites.
History
Age Heiligenstädter cemetery
The parish of the Holy City is one of the oldest parishes in Vienna. At the parish belonged next to Heiligenstadt originally also the places Dobling Grinzing, Sievering, Salmannsdorf, Neustift am Walde and Nußdorf. As the first cemetery for the surrounding communities, which was gradually independent parishes, first served the cemetery at the parish church as a burial site. 1831 this was surrounded by a wall, the construction costs were supported by the Foundation of Oswald the grill of Grinzing. An extension of the cemetery was probably not possible, because next to the church was a mineral spring and was discovered during excavation work on water. Already in 1500, therefore, a charnel house was built on the edge of the cemetery, who took up the bones of the dead, and allowed a re- use of the tombs. Due to the population growth in the late 19th century, the establishment of a new cemetery was necessary, the old cemetery was closed on 2 September 1873. While the parish church was rebuilt in 1894 and 1898, approved the Vienna City Council in 1895 abolishing the old cemetery grounds under the condition that the land is used " to garden purposes." Only the tomb of the founder of the school gymnastics in Vienna, Rudolf Stephani, was preserved. The Karner, the only surviving charnel house of Vienna was renovated in 1969, the bones in 1970 buried on Vienna's central cemetery.
New Heiligenstädter cemetery
1873 the new cemetery in the Wildgrube has been created and already 1897/1898 expanded to 2,921 square feet. 1904, the wooden limitation has been replaced by a boundary wall, a second expansion of the cemetery grounds in 1910 decided and implemented. In the inter-war period was followed by a further enlargement of the cemetery grounds, in 1925 a new mortuary was built. After renovations in the postwar period, the allocation of new home and graves of fallen in 1952 prohibited. 1953 the municipal council decided to close the cemetery Holy City and other cemeteries to 1975. Still found in the first half of the 1960s again instead of renovations. The blocking of the cemeteries in 1975 moved to 1985. In a referendum in 1980, however, the population of Vienna refused to block the cemeteries, whereupon the council reversed the decision. 1980 and 1983 escheated grave sites were between retracted and re-assigned to reactivation of old graves. The last construction work took place in the 1990s. In 1990, a new administration building was erected in 1993 the hall entrance protected by a canopy. In addition, the mortuary has been redesigned and the facade restored.
Tombs of important personalities
Half of honor dedicated graves
The Heiligenstadt cemetery has 10 honorary dedicated graves.