Kerepesi Cemetery
Kerepesi Cemetery or Kerepes Cemetery (Hungarian: Kerepesi temető, official name: Fiumei úti nemzeti sírkert, ie. "Fiume Road National Graveyard") is the most famous cemetery in Budapest. It is one of the oldest churchyards in Hungary which has been preserved in its contiguous entity. Founded in 1847, it is one of the biggest National Pantheons in Europe and the biggest outdoor statue park with its area of about 56 hectares. It is sometimes referred to as the Père Lachaise of Budapest.
Numerous Hungarian notabilities (statesmen, writers, sculptors, architects, artists, composers, scientists, actors and actresses etc.) from the 19th and 20th centuries are buried here, several of them in ornate tombs or mausoleums. It was declared closed in the 1950s, and now it is open for the public only for visiting. It has extended parks among the graves and monuments.
It is located in outer Józsefváros, near Keleti pályaudvar (Eastern Railway Station), and it is available with Metro line 2. It is the innermost cemetery of Budapest, although it still lies about 2 km from the downtown.
It includes three mausoleums for the below three statesmen:
and one for Ábrahám Ganz (iron-founder, pioneer in Hungarian heavy industry).
Beside them, it is the resting place for the following celebrities (among many others):
- Endre Ady (poet)
- József Antall (Prime Minister, historian)
- János Arany (poet)
- Mihály Babits (poet)
- Béla Balázs (writer, film aesthete)
- Miklós Barabás (painter)
- István Bethlen (Prime Minister)
- Lujza Blaha (actress)
- Ottó Bláthy (electrical engineer)
- Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (painter)
- Gergely Czuczor (linguist, poet)
- Béni Egressy (composer)
- Loránd Eötvös (physicist)
- Ferenc Erkel (composer)
- János Fadrusz (sculptor)
- Károly Ferenczy (painter)
- János Garay (poet)
- Artúr Görgey (general)
- Alajos Hauszmann (architect)
- Jenő Heltai (writer)
- George de Hevesy (Nobel Prize winner chemist)
- Miklós Izsó (sculptor)
- Mari Jászai (actress)
- Mór Jókai (writer)
- Attila József (poet)
- János Kádár (Communist leader)
- Pál Kadosa (composer)
- Kálmán Kandó (inventor, engineer)
- Mihály Károlyi (President)
- Karl-Maria Kertbeny (writer, translator)
- Károly Kisfaludy (poet, dramatist, painter)
- Dezső Kosztolányi (poet, writer)
- Gyula Krúdy (writer)
- Ödön Lechner (architect)
- Lipót Fejér (mathematician)
- Károly Lotz (painter)
- Georg Lukács (philosopher)
- Viktor Madarász (painter)
- Ignác Martinovics (Franciscan, leader of the Hungarian Jacobin movement)
- Ferenc Medgyessy (sculptor)
- Kálmán Mikszáth (writer)
- Zsigmond Móricz (writer)
- Mihály Munkácsy (painter)
- Tivadar Puskás (engineer, inventor)
- Miklós Radnóti (poet)
- Frigyes Riesz (mathematician)
- Ignaz Semmelweis (doctor, "Saviour of Mothers")
- Imre Steindl (architect)
- Alajos Stróbl (sculptor)
- Antal Szerb (writer)
- Leó Szilárd (physicist)
- Mihály Táncsics (writer, politician)
- Mihály Vörösmarty (poet)
- Sándor Wekerle (Prime Minister three times)
- Miklós Ybl (architect)
- Mihály Zichy (painter, graphic artist)
- Note: This list is very far from complete. The full list of notable persons would include about 700 names. Their complete listing is available in the free booklet of the cemetery.
The cemetery is also noted for the (Left and Right-side) Arcade, built between 1908–1911.
See also
- Farkasréti Cemetery
- Házsongárd Cemetery
External links
- Budapest Funeral Institute (only in Hungarian), including
Categories: Budapest | Cemeteries in Hungary