Kerepesi Cemetery

The Kerepesi temető (German: Kerepescher cemetery) is next to the main cemetery Új köztemető a significant cemetery in Budapest, located in the city district VIII ( Józsefváros ). The main entrance is located in the Fiumei út 16 The cemetery was opened in 1847. To the north lies the East Railway Station ( Keleti pu.) And south of the railway station Budapest Josefstadt ( Józsefvárosi pu.).

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On the Kerepesi temető Hungarian celebrities ( statesmen, writers, architects, actors, scientists ) have been buried, some of them in mausoleums. The first significant burial was that of Mihály Vörösmarty in 1855. During World War II, there was some damage. 1958 a monument to the labor movement was built. Soviet graves were created in the north-western part of the cemetery.

One can find three mausoleums of leading Hungarian statesmen:

  • Count Lajos Batthyány (Prime Minister 1848-1849 )
  • Ferenc Deák ( Minister of Justice 1848)
  • Lajos Kossuth ( Regent 1849)

Another mausoleum was full erected in 1868 for the industrialist Ábrahám.

Furthermore, the Kerepesi temető known for its arcades, which were built from 1908 to 1911 and is reminiscent of the style of northern Italian cemeteries. The artist - sector, on the great Hungarian artists were buried, was created in 1929.

The cemetery is now open to the public and acts as a large, quiet park.

Celebrity graves

The following persons were buried in the Kerepesi temető:

  • József Antall (Prime Minister)
  • Mihály Babits ( poet )
  • Béla Balázs ( film critic )
  • Tivadar Csontvary Kosztka (painter)
  • Loránd Eötvös ( physicist )
  • Ferenc Erkel (Composer)
  • George de Hevesy ( Nobel Laureate in Chemistry )
  • Arthur Heyer ( German - Hungarian painter )
  • József Hild (architect)
  • Attila József ( poet )
  • Stolen János Kádár ( First Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ), body 2007
  • Maurus Kallina (architect)
  • Mihály Károlyi (President of the Hungarian Republic 1918-1919 )
  • Karl Maria Kertbeny ( Austrian journalist and human rights activist )
  • Ignaz Semmelweis (doctor, savior of mothers)
  • Imre Steindl (architect of the parliament building )
  • Arthur Arz von Straußenburg (last Chief of General Staff of the Austro- Hungarian Army )
  • Victims of the popular uprising of 1956
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