Cemetery

The cemetery and funeral service is an essential part of urban history as a socio-political element: The original cemetery was located right next to the old civic hospital, in the courtyard west of the hospital church today. Only with the construction of the Pustertal Railway in 1870/71 and the increased demand for medical care, not only was the hospital adapted at the expense of the imperial-royal privileged South Railway Company, but also the local cemetery was closed. From then on, people were buried around the

The city cemeteries known today go back to 1901 - on July 28, 1901, a city cemetery for 1,858 earth graves, 146 wall graves and 30 arcades was built north of the parish church of St. Andrä on a total area of ​​10,374 m 2. In the course of the train accident in Nikolsdorf in 1942, another burial ground was opened west of the war cemetery, the so -called new cemetery. It comprises a total area of ​​10,700 m 2, on which 1,272 earth graves are created.

Formation of the trend of the time in recent years has increased urn niches and urn graves. In 2013 the “Garden of Calm” was created, in which 150 Urn niches are housed. Average of around 120 burials take place each year, both cemeteries are shown as the "green cemetery".

It was built in 1910 in the square next to the Dominican monastery on the western beginning of Schweizergasse to commemorate the blood dishes of the Napoleonic occupation.