Address:
BP. X. Kozma u. 6. Tel: 262-4687
Photos taken by the author Illés András on
July
2002.
The
Jewish community received a large area from the city administration in 1868 from
the territory of the Rákoskeresztúr Public Cemetery. The cemetery was planned by
architect Freud Vilmos.
Between 1905 - 1910 a geat number of Jewish were
exhumed and transported in this new cemetery by the Pest Chevra
Kadisa.
The
following brief description is that of the largest existing Jewish cemetery in
Budapest, where more tan 300,000 Jews have been buried: The entrance is
decorated in white and forms part of a major building complex. The function
rooms, central preparation halls, offices and ceremony halls are separated for
men and women. The building was designed by the architect Freund Vilmos in 1891.
During the past decades, this cemetery become also the central cemetery of the
Jewish inhabitants of Budapest.
Important
sights:
-At
the inside wall of the entrance building you can find a memorial
monument
for the 10,000 Jewish Hungarian soldiers, died during WWI.
-Military
monument of the volunteer soldiers of the revolution of 1849 ( design by Lajta
Béla).
-Monument for the martyrs of the Hungarian Holocaust, realised by the
famous Hungarian olympic champion and architect Hajós Alfréd ( he was the first
Hungarian olympian to win a gold medal).
-The large white walls and
columns-pillars holds the names of all of the victims (some hand-written entries
complete the list) and here are buried 2,000 victims of the Klauzál tér ghetto
from the last months of WWII.
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Plot for the Martyrs;
Monument of the Jewish forced labourers, decorated
with a big Torah
(inscription: "This company of 196 workers, marching back
from the battle of Volga river in Russia, were all murdered on 11th October 1944
in Kiskunhalas.
Monuments of the heroes of the resistance
fighters.
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Other famous
names:
Róna
József sculptor
Bródy Sándor playwright
Forrai György music
composer
Selényi Pál research physicist
Wittmann Viktor aviation
pioneer
Kellér Andor writer and Kellér Dezso actor,
Fehér Klára writer
Gózon Gyula actor ( statue by Varga Imre)
Szép Erno writer
Hajós
Alfréd architect ( central sport swimming pool on the Margaret
Island)
Kishegyi Árpád opera singer (modern Menorah
design)
Extremely
important
crypts:
Blockner
family crypt
Brüll family's crypt ( outside with lions, inside with mosaics
decoration)
Gerster Kálmán and Sróbl Alajos graves ( MTK sport club's
financial directors)
Hay family's crypt ( in secession style)
Schmidl
mausoleum ( designed by Lajta Béla) decorates with the Zsolnay ceramics and
mosaics. Renovated, see on photo.
Goldberger Berthold's crypt in secession
style
( History of the family see at Óbuda textile
factory)
Wellisch family crypt ( see photo)
Kornfeld Zsigmond bank-and
stock exchange bank director's grave
Heidelberg family's grave ( nice wrought
iron gate)
Griesz family crypt (designes by Lajta Béla) lions figures,
inside mosaic cupola ( see photo)
Redlich-Ohrenstein gravestone ( designed by
Alpár Ignác, the same of the Parliament house)
Urbán family
grave
Lichtenstein Samu grave (art deco)
Hüvös József grave ( Egyptian
design elements)
Halmos graves( Egyptian stile columns)
Schwarcz grave (
designed by Lajta Béla)
Freund Béla and family's grave with monumental
columns
Szabolcsi Miksáné grave ( Lajta Béla design)
Lukács József
bankdirector's grave ( father of the famous Lukács György philosopher)
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