Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)
The walk can be concluded with a look at a smaller group of sections numbered, in a rather confusing manner, 44-49. Among those buried in its upper circus once decorated with a crucifix are academicians and members of the municipal authority. Walking towards the gate, you can catch a glimpse of the resting places of painter Antal Diósy; Viktor Rákosi, who wrote under the pen-name Si- pulusz; and the Kotsis family, a dynasty of architects, marked with an ornamental urn in Section 46. This is where writer Kálmán Csathó and poet Gyula Illyés are also interred. Although there are several renowned persons buried in Section 47, it is perhaps the most fitting conclusion to our walk to pay tribute to the mass grave of Hungarian soldiers killed in the siege of Budapest in 1945. This grave is by the entrance and overlooks the circular area there. Their names, precise number, and background are unknown. It is also worth lingering a little while longer in the cemetery to take a look at the memorial park of the obliterated graues located in front of the office of the cemetery, the tombstones of which stood in their original places not very long ago. Other cemeteries and places OF INTERMENT OUTSIDE CEMETERIES Thirteen functioning and 19 closed cemeteries belong to the Budapest Funeral Services Institute Ltd. (the status of the Kerepesi Cemetery has not been determined yet). Jewish cemeteries have survived to this day in most of the suburbs that used to be separate villages; in addition, there is an Orthodox Jewish cemetery still functioning in Rákoskeresztúr. Remarkable monuments, as well as tombstones, significant at least in terms of the history of the neighbourhood, can be found in almost all of them. Hence it would be appropriate if regulations provided for the protection of the monuments located in cemeteries at several levels, ranging from the protection of local memorials to that of monuments of national significance. The additional cemeteries highlighted in the following have been selected in accordance with the same criteria that have been used so far. The largest of these is the one generally known as the Óbuda (Törökkő) Cemetery. This facility has been in use since 1910. Buried here are historian István Görgey, younger brother and aid-de-camp of Artúr, chief commander of the national forces in the 1848-49 war; culture historian Arnold Schoen; professor of medicine István Haynal; sculptor István Damkó; István Bibó, prominent 68
