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Kerepesi Cemetery (Hungarian: Kerepesi úti temető or Kerepesi temető, official name: Fiumei úti nemzeti sírkert, ie. "Fiume Road National Graveyard") is the most famous cemetery in Budapest. A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Hungary which has been almost completely preserved as an entity. Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic

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Kerepesi Cemetery
Kerepesi Cemetery
Kerepesi Cemetery
Kerepesi Cemetery
Labor Movement Mausoleum on Kerepesi Cemetery 1
Labor Movement Mausoleum on Kerepesi Cemetery 1
Labor Movement Mausoleum on Kerepesi Cemetery 2
Labor Movement Mausoleum on Kerepesi Cemetery 2
Kerepesi Cemetery Arcades 1
Kerepesi Cemetery Arcades 1
Kerepesi Cemetery Arcades 2
Kerepesi Cemetery Arcades 2
Kerepesi Cemetery Arcades 3
Kerepesi Cemetery Arcades 3

Founded in 1847, Kerepesi is located in outer Józsefváros, near Keleti pályaudvar (Eastern Railway Station), and can be reached via Budapest Metro line 2. Year 1847 ( MDCCCXLVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Józsefváros (Josephstadt is district VIII of Budapest, Hungary. Budapest Keleti pályaudvar (often abbreviated Budapest Keleti pu) Hungarian for Budapest Eastern Railway Station is the largest among the three main railway The Budapest Metro (Hungarian Budapesti metró) is the metro system in the Hungarian capital Budapest. It is the innermost cemetery of Budapest, although it still lies about 2 km from the downtown centre. To help compare different Orders of magnitude this page lists Lengths between 1 km and 10 km (103 and 104 m) Kerepesi is one of the biggest National Pantheons in Europe and the biggest outdoor statue park with its area of about 56 hectares. A temple (from the Latin word Templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities such as prayer and sacrifice or analogous rites To help compare sizes of different geographic regions areas between 10 Hectares (100000 m²) and 100 hectares (1000000 m² are listed below It is sometimes referred to as the Père Lachaise of Budapest. Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise officially cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery" is the largest Cemetery in the city of Paris

The cemetery's first burial took place some two years after its opening, in 1849. Year 1849 ( MDCCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Since then numerous Hungarian notables (statesmen, writers, sculptors, architects, artists, composers, scientists, actors and actresses etc. ) have been interred there, several of them in ornate tombs or mausoleums. A mausoleum ( plural: mausolea is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons This was encouraged by the decision of the muinicpal authorities to declare Kerepesi a 'ground of honour' in 1885. Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The first notable burial was that of Mihály Vörösmarty in 1855. Mihály Vörösmarty ( December 1, 1800 - November 19, 1855) Hungarian Poet, was born at Puszta-Nyék of a noble Year 1855 ( MDCCCLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year

The cemetery was declared closed for burials in 1952. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This was partly beause it had become damaged during World War II, and partly for political reasons, as the Communist government sought to play down the graves of those who had 'exploited the working class'. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based At one point it was intended to build a housing estate over the cemetery. Part of the grounds were in fact handed over to a nearby rubber factory and were destroyed in 1953. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

In 1958, a Mausoleum for the Labour movement was created. The labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better During the Socialist period (which lasted from 1948 till 1989 in Hungary) this was the only part of the cemetery highlighted or even mentioned) by the authorities. After the fall of communism, Kerepesi was still considered by some as a Communist cemetery (for example a son of Béla Bartók forbade his father's ashes to be interred there). "Fall of Communism" redirects here For the fall of the Soviet Union itself see History of the Soviet Union (1985–1991. Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25 1881&ndashSeptember 26 1945 was a Hungarian Composer and Pianist, considered to be one of the greatest

The cemetery, with its extended parks among the graves and monuments, is today open to the public, but interments have ceased.

Lajos Kossuth Mausoleum on Kerepesi Cemetery
Lajos Kossuth Mausoleum on Kerepesi Cemetery

Kerepesi contains three mausoleums of leading Hungarian statesmen:

There is also a notable mausoleum for Ábrahám Ganz (iron-founder, pioneer in Hungarian heavy industry), built to the plans of Miklós Ybl in 1868. Count Lajos Batthyány de Németújvár ( February 10, 1807 &ndash October 6, 1849) was from a long line of Counts and a descendant Deák Ferenc, ( October 17, 1803, Söjtör - January 28, 1876, Budapest) was a Hungarian statesman known as Lajos Kossuth (ˈlɒjoʃ ˈkoʃut Monok, September 19 1802 &ndash Turin, March 20 1894 was a Hungarian lawyer politician and Regent-President Alajos Stróbl (1856 - 1926 was a Hungarian Sculptor and Artist. Ábrahám Ganz ( November 6, 1815, Unter-Embrach - December 15, 1867, Pest) was a Swiss-born Hungarian iron manufacturer Miklós Ybl ( Hungarian: Ybl Miklós; born April 6 1814 in Székesfehérvár; died January 22 1891 in Budapest) was one of Europe

In 1874, a special parcel was established for those who were denied a church funeral (those who committed suicide and those executed).

The cemetery is also famous for its Arcades, built between 1908–1911, recalling the style of Northern Italian cemeteries. An arcade is a passage or walkway covered over by a succession of Arches or vaults supported by columns

The artists' sector – in which each tomb contains a notable Hungarian representative of the arts – was created in 1929.

Until the 1940s, several tombs were removed to this cemetery from others in Budapest – for example, it is the fourth resting place of the poet Attila József. Biography The son of Áron József a soap factory worker and Hungarian peasant girl Borbála Pőcze he was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest

Partial list of celebrities buried at Kerepesi

Note: This list is very far from complete. Zsigmond Móricz ( June 29, 1879 &mdash September 4, 1942) was a Hungarian novelist and Social Realist Endre Ady (Érmindszent - November 22 1877 Budapest - January 27 1919 was a Hungarian Poet. Ignác Alpár ( January 17, 1855, Pest &mdash April 27, 1928, Zürich) was a Hungarian architect József Antall ( April 8 1932 - December 12 1993) was the first democratically-elected Prime minister of Hungary (from 23 János Arany ( March 2, 1817 &mdash October 22, 1882) was a Hungarian journalist writer poet and translator Mihály Babits Mihaai Babich] ( November 26, 1883 in Szekszárd - August 4, 1941 in Budapest) was a Hungarian Béla Balázs ( 4 August 1884, Szeged – 17 May 1949, Budapest) born Herbert Bauer, was a Hungarian Miklós Barabás ( February 10 1810 - February 12 1898) was a Hungarian painter. Jenő Barcsay (1900 – 1988 was a Hungarian painter Born in Katona Hungary in 1900 Barcsay was a descendant of an aristocratic family in Transylvania Count István Bethlen de Bethlen ( October 8, 1874 &ndash October 5, 1946 ? was a Hungarian Aristocrat and Statesman Ottó Titusz Bláthy ( August 11, 1860 – September 26, 1939) was a Hungarian Electrical engineer. Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry ˈkostkɒ ˈʧontvaːri}} (1853-1919 was a Hungarian painter. Béni Egressy ( April 21 1814 &ndash July 17 1851) was a Hungarian composer librettist translator and actor Baron Loránd von Eötvös, more commonly called Baron Roland von Eötvös in the English literature (in Hungarian Vásárosnaményi Báró Eötvös Loránd, or Ferenc Erkel ˈɛrkɛl}} ( November 7, 1810 – June 15, 1893) was a Hungarian composer János Fadrusz (Slovak Ján Fadrusz; 1858 Pressburg - 1903 Budapest) was a Hungarian (according to some Slovak sources a Slovak Sculptor György Faludy ( September 22 1910, Budapest - September 1 2006, Budapest sometimes anglicized as George Faludy János Garay ( October 10, 1812 - November 5, 1853) was a Hungarian Poet and author was born in Szekszárd, Artúr Görgey ( January 30 1818 &ndash May 21 1916) was a Hungarian military leader Hauszmann Alajos ( Buda, June 9, 1847 – Velence, July 31, 1926) architect professor member of the Hungarian Academy Georg Karl von Hevesy ( August 1, 1885 &ndash July 5, 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate recognised Miklós Izsó (1831 Disznóshorvát - 1875 Budapest) was a Hungarian Sculptor. Mór Jókai, born Móric Jókay de Ásva ( 19 February 1825 &ndash 5 May 1904) outside Hungary also known as Biography The son of Áron József a soap factory worker and Hungarian peasant girl Borbála Pőcze he was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest János Kádár, né Giovanni Czermanik (his Italian first name was due to the laws of Fiume, his father the soldier János Kressinger denied paternity and refused Pál Kadosa (1903&ndash1983 - piano teacher and Hungarian Composer of the post- Bartók generation Kálmán Kandó de Egerfarmos et Sztregova ( egerfarmosi és sztregovai Kandó Kálmán; July 10 1869 - January 13 1931) was a Count Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi de Nagykároly ( March 4, 1875 - March 19, 1955) was briefly Hungary 's Karl-Maria Kertbeny or Károly Mária Kertbeny (born Karl-Maria Benkert) (1824 &ndash 1882 was born in Vienna, the son of a writer and a painter Károly Kisfaludy ( February 5, 1788 Tet - November 21, 1830 Pest) was a Hungarian dramatist brother of Dezső Kosztolányi ( March 29, 1885 – November 3, 1936) was a famous Hungarian Poet and Prose -writer Gyula Krúdy (21 October 1878 &ndash 12 May 1933 was a Hungarian writer and journalist Ödön Lechner ( Pest, August 27 1845 – Budapest, June 10 1914) was a Hungarian Architect, nicknamed Lipót Fejér (or Leopold Fejér) ( February 9, 1880, Pécs – October 15, 1959, Budapest) was a Hungarian Lotz Károly Antal Pál, or Karl Anton Paul Lotz ( 16 December 1833 – 13 October 1904) was a German - Hungarian György Lukács (pronounced in IPA dyɶrdyə ˈlukɑtʃ) ( April 13, 1885 – June 4, 1971) was a Hungarian Madarász Viktor ( Csetnek, December 14 1840 - Budapest, January 10 1917) was a Hungarian romantic This page describes the political term "Jacobin" For discussion of the political organization of the French Revolution era see Jacobin Club. Ferenc Medgyessy (1881 Debrecen, Hungary – 1958 Budapest, Hungary was a Hungarian sculptor and physician Baron László Mednyánszky (23rd April 1852 - 19th April 1919 also referred to as Ladislaus Josephus Balthasar Eustachius Mednyánszky was a Hungarian painter Kálmán Mikszáth de Kiscsoltó ( January 16, 1847 &mdash May 28, 1910) was a major Hungarian novelist journalist and politician TemplateInfobox person (more options and/or integrated into the text| period = 19th Century| Karl Paul Polanyi ( October 25, 1886, Vienna, Austria — April 23, 1964, Pickering Ontario) was a Hungarian Tivadar Puskás ( 17 September, 1844 Pest - 16 March, 1893 Budapest) was a Hungarian Inventor, Miklós Radnóti, birth name Miklós Glatter ( May 5 1909, Budapest, Austria-Hungary &ndash Frigyes Riesz ( January 22, 1880 &ndash February 28, 1956) was a Mathematician who was born in Győr, Hungary Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis ( July 1, 1818 &ndash August 13, 1865) also Ignac Semmelweis (born Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp Imre Steindl ( October 29, 1839 in Pest – August 31 1902 in Budapest) was a Hungarian architect Alajos Stróbl (1856 - 1926 was a Hungarian Sculptor and Artist. Antal Szerb ( May 1, 1901, Budapest - January 27, 1945, Balf) was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer Leó Szilárd (Szilárd Leó February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was an Hungarian - American Physicist who Táncsics Mihály (born as Stancsics Mihajlo) ( 21 April 1799, Ácsteszér – 28 June 1884, Budapest) was a Ármin Vámbéry, Arminius Vámbéry born Hermann Bamberger, or Bamberger Ármin ( 19 March 1832, Dunaszerdahely &ndash Mihály Vörösmarty ( December 1, 1800 - November 19, 1855) Hungarian Poet, was born at Puszta-Nyék of a noble Leo Weiner ( 16 April 1885 in Budapest &ndash 13 September 1960 in Budapest was one of the leading Hungarian Music Sándor Wekerle ( November 14, 1848 – August 16, 1921) was a Hungarian politician who served three times as prime minister. Miklós Ybl ( Hungarian: Ybl Miklós; born April 6 1814 in Székesfehérvár; died January 22 1891 in Budapest) was one of Europe Mihály Zichy ( October 15 1827 in Zala, Hungary; February 28 1906 in St The full list of notable persons would include about 700 names. Their complete listing is available in a free booklet available at the cemetery.

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Farkasréti Cemetery or Farkasrét Cemetery (Farkasréti temető is one of the most famous cemeteries in Budapest.
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