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

Tomb in the style of Romanticism in Kerepesi Cemetery

from other Buda cemeteries as well as its own fine vaults were variously transferred from Németvölgyi út to the Farkasrét, the Kerepesi and the Rákoskeresztúr Cemeteries. (Sections reopened under the pressure of circumstances during the siege of Budapest in 1944-45 were closed in 1978.) The Németvölgy Jewish Orthodox Cemetery in a plot surrounded by a high fence in Csörsz utca remained intact. The best known of those resting here is the learned rabbi Jacob Koppel Reich.

The Jewish quarter of medieval Buda castle, whose two synagogues were uncovered in the 1960s, used the cemetery in today’s Krisztinaváros (Christina Town). The tombstones were later carried away, some to be built into the walls of the castle buildings, while those unearthed in archaeological digs are kept in lapidaries. The oldest of those bearing a date was carved in 1278. The surviving epitaphs were collected by Dávid Kaufmann who published his findings in 1895.

In the northern Buda districts of Újlak and Óbuda, one burial site succeeded the other just as quickly as elsewhere. The graveyard surrounding the parish church was closed in 1744, the Ujlak-Kiscell Cemetery in Doberdó utca was opened in 1780, while the one in Kórház utca began to function in 1788. In another century, the Cemetery

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