Mészáros Balázs: Arrabona - Múzeumi Közlemények 50/2. (Győr, 2012)

Tanulmányok - Tóth Vilmos: A Nádorvárosi temető első évszázada

ARRABONA 2012. 50/2.

TANULMÁNYOK

THE FIRST 100 YEARS OF THE CEMETERY OF GYŐR-NÁDORVÁROS

The cemetery was opened in 1912, but it tells the story of more then 100 years. After the closing of the old central cemetery many prominent families of the town moved their family tombs to the then-new cemetery in Győr-Nádorváros (Fig. 1-3.) The moved tombstones are mainly from the late 19th and early 20th century, but there are several gravestones from the first half of the 19th century and military tombs from 1848/49 were moved here as well.

In the new cemetery military plots were developed for the soldiers killed in WW I, while the Italian soldiers who died in captivity rest in a separate field. During the WW II German, Russian and Hungarian plots were developed. The victims of the bombing of Győr in 1944, the resistance fighters killed during the war and several martyrs of the 1956 Revolution were buried in this cemetery as well. Facing the main entrance there is a monument by Pál Deim erected to the commemoration of all heroes and victims who sacrificed their lives for the country.

This cemetery was the burial place of the Benedict monks and gives place to the honorary graves of the town and the tombs of hundreds of other respected persons are also to be found here (Fig. 4 -5. and 8-12.).

The gravestones were made mainly in local workshops (Birkmayer, Hammer, Réthy). In the cemetery several works of two famous sculptors born in Győr, Adorján Horváth (1874-1943; Fig. 6.) and István Zászlós (1895-1976) can also be found. Miklós Borsos (1906-1990), who lived for many years in Győr, worked also on tombstones, but some of his works have not survived (Fig. 7.).

Vilmos Tóth