Tóth Vilmos: Funeral Art - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2006)

Funeral Arts in the 19th Century

Cemetery (opened in 1886), as well as the walkway pattern and sectional division. The layout of the neighbouring Jewish cemetery in Kozma utca (opened in 1891) and the funeral parlour across from the main entrance were created by Vilmos Freund. Considerations of landscape design in Hungary's cemeteries came into the limelight with the late 19th century; the sectional designers of earlier burial grounds remain unknown.

The predecessor of the Kozma utca Cemetery was the Jewish graveyard in Salgótarjáni utca opened next to Kerepesi út Cemetery in an unused section within the perimeters of the latter. The largest number of mausoleums in Budapest can be found in the Jewish cemeteries in Salgótarjáni and Kozma streets crowded one upon the other along the boundary walls. The one most important group of funeral monuments in Salgótarjáni utca are the sepulchres built within twenty years of the cemetery's opening in uniform Eclectic style. Inestimable as their artistic value is, this group of funeral monuments is in

■ Sándor Fellner: the mauioleum oj the Schwarz family

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