Mirogoj Cemetery
Main entrance at Mirogoj
(Inscription: To the King of Ages Whom Everything Lives) |
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| Details | |
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| Established | 6 November 1876 |
| Location | Zagreb |
| Country | Croatia |
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| Type | Public |
| Owned by | City of Zagreb |
| Website | www |
| 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 and irreligious graves can all be found. In the arcades are the last resting places of many famous Croatians.
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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
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119 žrtava.jpg
Monument to the 119 victims of fascist terror
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A G Matoš.JPG
Antun Gustav Matoš's grave
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Andrija Hebrang's grave
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August Šenoa spomenik (Mirogoj).jpg
August Šenoa's grave monument
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Memorial to the Bleiburg repatriations
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Bruno Busic 1007.JPG
Bruno Bušić's grave
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Dušan Džamonja spomenik Mirogoj srpanj 2008.jpg
Monument to dead, missing and detained Croatian soldiers
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Mirogoj Zagreb, Murtic.JPG
Monument near Edo Murtić's grave
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Eugen Kumicic 1007.JPG
Eugen Kumičić's grave
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Grobnica djece sa Kozare Mirogoj.jpg
Monument to the children from Kozara; about 400 children who died in Ustaše concentration camps during WWII
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Hermann Bollé 1139x2168.jpg
Hermann Bollé's grave
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Ivo Kerdić Matko.JPG
Ivo Kerdić's grave
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Matija Ljubek's grave
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Mirko Rački Tarnik.JPG
Mirko Rački's grave
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Petar Preradović Mirogoj.jpg
Petar Preradović's grave
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Monument to the fallen Croatian soldiers in World War I
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Rudolf Peresin 1007.JPG
Rudolf Perešin's grave
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Stjepan Radic, Mirogoj Cementry, Zagreb.JPG
Stjepan Radić's grave
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Monument to the July victims
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Grave Drazen Petrovic 1.jpg
Dražen Petrović's grave
See also
Notes
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- Mirogoj Cemetery at Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages with reference errors
- Official website missing URL
- Articles with Croatian-language external links
- Cemeteries in Croatia
- Christian Orthodox cemeteries
- Jewish cemeteries
- Roman Catholic cemeteries
- Lutheran cemeteries
- Protestant Reformed cemeteries
- Buildings and structures in Zagreb
- Gornji Grad–Medveščak
- Hermann Bollé buildings
- 1876 establishments in Austria-Hungary
