Mirogoj Cemetery
Main entrance at Mirogoj (Inscription: To the King of Ages Whom Everything Lives) | |
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Established | 6 November 1876 |
Location | Zagreb |
Country | Croatia |
Coordinates | 45°50′06″N 15°59′10″E / 45.835°N 15.986°E / 45.835; 15.986Coordinates: 45°50′06″N 15°59′10″E / 45.835°N 15.986°E / 45.835; 15.986 |
Type | Public |
Owned by | City of Zagreb |
Website | www.gradskagroblja.hr |
Find a Grave | Mirogoj Cemetery |
The Mirogoj Cemetery (pronounced [mîrɔɡɔːj]) is a cemetery park that is considered[1] to be among the more noteworthy landmarks in the City of Zagreb. The cemetery inters members of all religious groups: Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Protestant, Latter Day Saints; irreligious graves can all be found. In the arcades are the last resting places of many famous Croatians.
Contents
1 History
2 Notable interments
3 Memorials
4 Location and access
5 Gallery
6 See also
7 Notes
8 Sources
9 External links
History
The Mirogoj Cemetery was built on a plot of land owned by the linguist Ljudevit Gaj, purchased by the city in 1872, after his death.[2] Architect Hermann Bollé designed the main building. The new cemetery was inaugurated on 6 November 1876.[3]
The construction of the arcades, the cupolas, and the church in the entryway was begun in 1879. Due to lack of funding, work was finished only in 1929.[4]
Unlike the older cemeteries, which were church-owned, Mirogoj was owned by the city, and accepted burials from all religious backgrounds.[4]
Notable interments
Zlatko Baloković - violinist
Hermann Bollé[5] - architect
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić[6] - writer
Ferdinand Budicki - automotive and air travel pioneer of Zagreb, introduced cars to the city
Krešimir Ćosić[7] - member of both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and FIBA Hall of Fame
Arsen Dedić - singer-songwriter and composer [8]
Dimitrija Demeter - a Greek Croatian, who played a major role in the movement for the national awakening of the Croatian nation
Filip Deutsch - nobleman and industrialist
Julio Deutsch - architect and co-owner of the architecture studio Hönigsberg & Deutsch
Janko Drašković[4] - Croatian noble, national reformer, politician and poet
Hugo Ehrlich - known architect
Aleksandar Ehrmann - known industrialist, philanthropist and diplomat
Ljudevit Gaj[4] - co-founder of the Illyrian movement
Leo Hönigsberg - Croatian architect and co-owner of the architecture studio Hönigsberg & Deutsch
Hosea Jacobi - Chief Rabbi of Zagreb
Miroslav Krleža[9] - writer
Oton Kučera - astronomer
Zinka Kunc (Milanov), famous soprano
Svetozar Kurepa - mathematician
Ante Kovačić[10] - writer from Hrvatsko Zagorje
Vatroslav Lisinski[11] - composer
Vladko Maček[12] - politician, co-signatory of the Cvetković-Maček Agreement
Savić Marković Štedimlija - Montenegrin-Croat publicist.
Antun Gustav Matoš - writer
Edo Murtić[13] - painter
Vladimir Nazor[14] - writer and first President of People's Republic/Socialist Republic of Croatia
Maximilian Njegovan - Commander-in-chief and admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy[15]
Dražen Petrović[16] - member of both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame
Vladimir Prelog[17] - Nobel prize-winning chemist
Petar Preradović - poet
Stjepan Radić[18] - leader of the Croatian Peasants Party
August Šenoa[4] - writer
Ivica Šerfezi - singer and politician supporter of HSS
Ivan Šubašić - last Ban of Croatia
Milka Ternina, famous soprano
Franjo Tuđman - the first president of Republic of Croatia
Vice Vukov[10] - singer and politician
Tin Ujević[19] - poet
Emil Uzelac - head of the Austro-Hungarian air force
Ivan Zajc[20] - composer
Memorials
- Monument to Fallen Croatian Soldiers in World War I (1919)
- Monument to the children from the Kozara mountain
Tomb of the People's Heroes (1968)- Memorial Cross to Croatian Home Guard Soldiers (1993)
- Monument to the Victims of Bleiburg and the Way of the Cross (1994)
- German military cemetery (1996)
- Monument of the "Voice of Croatian Victims - Wall of Pain" (to Croatian victims of the Croatian War of Independence)
Location and access
It is located today in the Gornji Grad - Medveščak city district, on Mirogojska Road and Hermann Bollé Street.
ZET bus line 106 runs between the cemetery and the Kaptol bus terminal in the heart of Zagreb every 20 minutes during the cemetery's opening hours.
A less frequent line, 226 (every 35–40 minutes), also starts from Kaptol by the same route, but continues farther east to Svetice terminal, directly connecting to the Maksimir Park.
Gallery
Monument to the 119 victims of fascist terror
Antun Gustav Matoš's grave
Andrija Hebrang's grave
August Šenoa's grave monument
Memorial to the Bleiburg repatriations
Bruno Bušić's grave
Monument to dead, missing and detained Croatian soldiers
Monument near Edo Murtić's grave
Eugen Kumičić's grave
Tomb of the People's Heroes
Monument to the children from Kozara; about 400 children who died in Ustaše concentration camps during World War II
Hermann Bollé's grave
Ivo Kerdić's grave
Matija Ljubek's grave
Mirko Rački's grave
Petar Preradović's grave
Monument to the fallen Croatian soldiers in World War I
Rudolf Perešin's grave
Stjepan Radić's grave
Monument to the July victims
Dražen Petrović's grave
See also
- History of Zagreb
Notes
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^ Švigir 2010, p. 10.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 12.
^ abcde Švigir 2010, cited in Polić 2011
^ Švigir 2010, p. 38.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 64.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 71.
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^ Švigir 2010, p. 34.
^ ab Švigir 2010, p. 60.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 27.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 35.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 78.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 81.
^ Maximilian Njegovan Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 77.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 36.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 32.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 53.
^ Švigir 2010, p. 37.
Sources
Polić, Maja (March 2011). "Mirogoj, Panteon hrvatske povijesti, Zagreb, 2010" (PDF). Rijeka (in Croatian). 16 (1): 89–90. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
Švigir, Mihovil, ed. (2010). Mirogoj (PDF). Zagreb Tourist Board. ISBN 978-953-228-055-5. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
External links
Official website (in Croatian)
Mirogoj Cemetery at Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe