Cemetery of Házsongárd
Original function:
graveyard
Current function:
graveyard
Address:
Strada Matei Basarab
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
GPS coordinates:
46.7655568957, 23.5917124041
History
The cemetery was founded on 11 May 1585 by the Assembly of Kolozsvár, a joint meeting of the council of the hundred men and the twelve jurors, at the beginning of the plague epidemic. The cemetery was enlarged several times over the years, and in 1739 the Lutheran cemetery was created by a donation from Colonel J. F. de Gladys, followed by the old Jewish cemetery in 1840. In 1885, the cemetery was reorganised, many old gravestones were removed, the plots were marked out and the planting of trees began. At the end of the 19th century, the cemetery was extended to the south, where the new Jewish cemetery was opened in 1892 and the military cemetery in 1914. The funeral chapel and office building were built in 1897.
On the 14 hectares there are more than 400 gravestones, mostly of famous Hungarians. As the Romanian population in Kolozsvár increased, the number of Romanian graves increased with it.
In April 2010, the Házsongárd Foundation and the Kelemen Lajos Monument Protection Society applied to the (Romanian) Ministry of Culture and Education for the designation of more than 200 graves as monuments. In 2011, Kelemen Hunor, Minister of Culture and Heritage, declared 394 tombs as monuments.
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