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

Mihály Vörösmarty’s granite obelisk

authorities had several significant changes made altering the layout of the cemetery for political reasons, and restoring some monuments on the territory of the graveyard:- A memorial park had been established here in 1948 when the remains of the Soviet soldiers killed during the siege of Budapest and buried in different parts of the city were brought to the cemetery.- Civilian and uniformed fighters killed in the revolution of 1956, together with non-combatant casualties, were buried in Sections 21 and 17/3. In 1958 the remains of those killed while protecting the existing political regime were transferred from here to a burial ground of honour near the main entrance. After this, Section 21 was called the section of the counter-revolutionaries.- It was also in 1958 that the edifice and the courtyard of the Pantheon of the Labour Movement were completed. Funerals took place here on the instructions of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. First, the bodies and ashes, exhumed from other cemeteries, of those who had participated in the labour movement were brought here. Later, the courtyard was expanded when Sections 12 and 14 were added. The names carved into the granite plaques of the columns are of symbolic significance only, because these people are buried in other cemeteries or in unknown places.

Today’s Kerepesi Cemetery covers an area of 55 hectares, which space does not include the administrative and service buildings. So far, 25 hectares have been landscaped where the roads have also been repaired. The graves in the landscaped parks, whether protected on ac16