Mirogoj Cemetery

Mirogoj Cemetery

Main entrance at Mirogoj (Inscription: To the King of Ages Whom Everything Lives)
Details
Established	6 November 1876
Location	Zagreb
Country	Croatia
Coordinates
Type	Public
Owned by	City of Zagreb
Website	www.gradskagroblja.hr
Find a Grave	Mirogoj Cemetery

File:Mirogoj Cemetery Arcade.jpg

Mirogoj arcade

The Mirogoj Cemetery (pronounced [mîrɔɡɔːj]) is a cemetery park that is considered to be among the more noteworthy landmarks in the City of Zagreb. The cemetery inters members of all religious groups: Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Protestant, Latter Day Saints and irreligious graves can all be found. In the arcades are the last resting places of many famous Croatians.

History

The cemetery was created in 1876 on a plot of land owned by the linguist Ljudevit Gaj. Architect Hermann Bollé designed the main building. The construction of the arcades, the cupolas, and the church in the entryway was begun in 1879. Work was finished in 1929.

Notable interments

• Franjo Tuđman - the first president of Republic of Croatia
• Imra Agotić - Croatian general
• Zlatko Baloković - violinist
• Ferdinand Budicki - automotive and air travel pioneer of Zagreb, introduced cars to the city
• Krešimir Ćosić - member of both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and FIBA Hall of Fame
• Filip Deutsch - nobleman and industrialist
• Julio Deutsch - architect and co-owner of the architecture studio Hönigsberg & Deutsch
• Janko Drašković - Croatian noble, national reformer, politician and poet
• Stjepan Đureković - businessman and assassination victim killed by Yugoslavian State Security Administration
• Hugo Ehrlich - known architect
• Aleksandar Ehrmann - known industrialist, philanthropist and diplomat
• Ljudevit Gaj - co-founder of the Illyrian movement
• Leo Hönigsberg - famous Croatian architect and co-owner of the architecture studio Hönigsberg & Deutsch
• Hosea Jacobi - Chief Rabbi of Zagreb
• Miroslav Krleža - famous writer
• Oton Kučera - gifted astronomer
• Svetozar Kurepa - gifted mathematician
• Ante Kovačić - writer from Hrvatsko Zagorje
• Rudolf Lubinski - Art Nouveau architect
• Vladko Maček - co-signatory of the Cvetković-Maček Agreement
• Savić Marković Štedimlija - Montenegrin-Croat publicist.
• Antun Gustav Matoš - writer
• Edo Murtić - painter
• Ivan Šubašić - last Ban of Croatia
• Vladimir Nazor - first President of People's Republic/Socialist Republic of Croatia
• Maximilian Njegovan - Commander-in-chief and admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy
• Dražen Petrović - Member of both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame
• Vladimir Prelog - Nobel prize-winning chemist
• Petar Preradović - poet
• Stjepan Radić - leader of the Croatian Peasants Party
• Vice Vukov - singer and a social-democratic politician
• Tin Ujević - poet
• Emil Uzelac - head of the Austro-Hungarian air force
• Arsen Dedić - composer

Memorials

• Monument to Fallen Croatian Soldiers in World War One (1919)
• Monument to the children from the Kozara mountain
• Tomb of the People's Heroes (1968)
• Memorial Cross to Croatian Home Guard Soldiers (1993)
• Monument to the Victims of Bleiburg and the Way of the Cross (1994)
• German military cemetery (1996)
• Monument of the "Voice of Croatian Victims - Wall of Pain" (to Croatian victims of the Croatian War of Independence)

Location and access

It is located today in the Gornji Grad - Medveščak city district, on Mirogojska Road and Hermann Bollé Street.

ZET bus line 106 runs between the cemetery and the Kaptol bus terminal in the heart of Zagreb.

Gallery

• 119 žrtava.jpg

  Monument to the 119 victims of fascist terror

• A G Matoš.JPG

  Antun Gustav Matoš's grave

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  Andrija Hebrang's grave

• August Šenoa spomenik (Mirogoj).jpg

  August Šenoa's grave monument

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  Memorial to the Bleiburg repatriations

• Bruno Busic 1007.JPG

  Bruno Bušić's grave

• Dušan Džamonja spomenik Mirogoj srpanj 2008.jpg

  Monument to dead, missing and detained Croatian soldiers

• Mirogoj Zagreb, Murtic.JPG

  Monument near Edo Murtić's grave

• Eugen Kumicic 1007.JPG

  Eugen Kumičić's grave

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  Tomb of the People's Heroes

• Grobnica djece sa Kozare Mirogoj.jpg

  Monument to the children from Kozara; about 400 children who died in Ustaše concentration camps during WWII

• Hermann Bollé 1139x2168.jpg

  Hermann Bollé's grave

• Ivo Kerdić Matko.JPG

  Ivo Kerdić's grave

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  Matija Ljubek's grave

• Mirko Rački Tarnik.JPG

  Mirko Rački's grave

• Petar Preradović Mirogoj.jpg

  Petar Preradović's grave

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  Monument to the fallen Croatian soldiers in World War I

• Rudolf Peresin 1007.JPG

  Rudolf Perešin's grave

• Stjepan Radic, Mirogoj Cementry, Zagreb.JPG

  Stjepan Radić's grave

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  Monument to the July victims

• Grave Drazen Petrovic 1.jpg

  Dražen Petrović's grave

See also

• History of Zagreb

External links

• (Croatian)
• Mirogoj Cemetery at Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe