Mirogoj Cemetery

Mirogoj Cemetery
Details
Main entrance at Mirogoj (Inscription: To the King of Ages Whom Everything Lives)
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

Mirogoj arcade

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 and irreligious graves can all be found. In the arcades are the last resting places of many famous Croatians.

History

The cemetery was created in 1876 on a plot of land owned by the linguist Ljudevit Gaj. Architect Hermann Bollé designed the main building. The construction of the arcades, the cupolas, and the church in the entryway was begun in 1879. Work was finished in 1929.

Notable interments

Franjo Tuđman - the first president of Republic of Croatia
Imra Agotić - Croatian general
Zlatko Baloković - violinist
Ferdinand Budicki - automotive and air travel pioneer of Zagreb, introduced cars to the city
Krešimir Ćosić - member of both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and FIBA Hall of Fame
Filip Deutsch - nobleman and industrialist
Julio Deutsch - architect and co-owner of the architecture studio Hönigsberg & Deutsch
Janko Drašković - Croatian noble, national reformer, politician and poet
Stjepan Đureković - businessman and assassination victim killed by Yugoslavian State Security Administration
Hugo Ehrlich - known architect
Aleksandar Ehrmann - known industrialist, philanthropist and diplomat
Ljudevit Gaj - co-founder of the Illyrian movement
Leo Hönigsberg - famous Croatian architect and co-owner of the architecture studio Hönigsberg & Deutsch
Hosea Jacobi - Chief Rabbi of Zagreb
Miroslav Krleža - famous writer
Oton Kučera - gifted astronomer
Svetozar Kurepa - gifted mathematician
Ante Kovačić - writer from Hrvatsko Zagorje
Rudolf Lubinski - Art Nouveau architect
Vladko Maček - co-signatory of the Cvetković-Maček Agreement
Savić Marković Štedimlija - Montenegrin-Croat publicist.
Antun Gustav Matoš - writer
Edo Murtić - painter
Ivan Šubašić - last Ban of Croatia
Vladimir Nazor - first President of People's Republic/Socialist Republic of Croatia
Maximilian Njegovan - Commander-in-chief and admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy^[2]
Dražen Petrović - Member of both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame
Vladimir Prelog - Nobel prize-winning chemist
Petar Preradović - poet
Stjepan Radić - leader of the Croatian Peasants Party
Vice Vukov - singer and a social-democratic politician
Tin Ujević - poet
Emil Uzelac - head of the Austro-Hungarian air force
Arsen Dedić - composer ^[3]

Memorials

Monument to Fallen Croatian Soldiers in World War One (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.

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 WWII
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

Notes

External links

Official website (Croatian)
Mirogoj Cemetery at Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe

Zagreb

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Gornji Grad–Medveščak

Dolac Gornji Grad Gupčeva zvijezda Kaptol Kraljevac Medveščak Mirogoj Nova Ves Pantovčak Petrova Ribnjak Šalata Tkalčićeva Tuškanac Voćarska Zelengaj

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