Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

The bronze coffin of János Arany

count of the historical merits of those buried in them or the aesthetic value of the shrines, will never be demolished, and the municipal authorities have also had the most important monuments restored here. In accordance with the blueprint of the rearrangement and landscaping works, a burial ground was created around Lajos Kossuth’s mausoleum for the soldiers killed in the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848-49. This became the final resting place of the soldiers whose mortal remains were transferred here (Section 31/2) in 1963 from the since then eliminated Németvölgyi Cemetery as well as some of those soldiers who were buried in graves scattered in different parts of the cemetery (Sections 30, 31). The burial ground of the Academy (Section 27) has also been developed, and the section reserved for the burial of artists but already filled up was also expanded in the early 1980s. Due to the radical restructuring of Hungary’s political system in 1989, the graves in Section 21 which escaped destruction in 1982 as a result of the co-operation of the then director of the cemetery have been restored as part of the burial ground of the heroes killed in the revolution and war of independence of 1956, partly by volunteers and partly with the support of the municipal authorities. This part of Kerepesi Cemetery has not only been restored, but also landscaped.

The classified directives which had forbidden religious ceremonies in the cemetery from the late 1960s onwards have, of course, been revoked. These instructions were partly responsible for preventing the burial of the country’s deceased heroes here in the spirit of the National Hall of

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