Farkasréti Cemetery or Farkasrét Cemetery ( hu, Farkasréti temető) is one of the most famous cemeteries in
Budapest
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. It opened in 1894 and is noted for its extensive views of the city (several people wanted it more to be a resort area than a cemetery).
It comprises tombs of numerous Hungarian notables and it is the most preferred burial place among actors, actresses and other artists (opera singers, musicians, painters, sculptors, architects, writers, poets). The cemetery is also home to the tombs of several scientists, academicians and athletes.
Graves are often decorated with noteworthy sculptures. It was provided with parks in the 1950s, when it took on its present appearance and extent. The mortuary hall and the new chapel were built in the 1980s to the plans of
Imre Makovecz.
In the
Communist
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era, funerals were restricted in
Kerepesi Cemetery, so it became the main cemetery for those who couldn't get one.
It is located in
Buda
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(the Western part of Budapest), approximately
3 km away from
the downtown.
The oldest grave that is still located in its original place is that of the mechanical engineer
Ferenc Cathry Szaléz, the designer of the
Rack railway
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in Budapest and the original
Mária Valéria bridge
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* The name is found in the Mária Valéria Bridge between Hungary and Slovakia on the middle of the bridge named after Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria and may ...
in
Esztergom
Esztergom ( ; german: Gran; la, Solva or ; sk, Ostrihom, known by alternative names) is a city with county rights in northern Hungary, northwest of the capital Budapest. It lies in Komárom-Esztergom County, on the right bank of the river ...
.
Notable interments
*
Vilmos Aba Novák, painter
*
Karl Aschenbrenner, philosopher
*
Péter Bacsó
Péter Bacsó (6 January 1928 – 11 March 2009) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
After high school graduation Bacsó wanted to become an actor and later a theatre director, but ultimately decided to try filmmaking. His fir ...
, film director and screenwriter
*
Ervin Baktay, orientalist
*
Donát Bánki, inventor
*
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hu ...
, composer, the sculpture made by
Miklós Borsos
*
Pal Benko, chess player and chess composer
*
Dénes Berinkey, Prime Minister
*
Aurél Bernáth, painter and poet
*
Sándor Bíró, footballer
*
Miklós Borsos, sculptor
*
József Bozsik
József Bozsik (; 28 November 1925 – 31 May 1978) was a Hungarian footballer who played as a central midfielder. He spent his entire club career at his hometown club, Budapest Honvéd. Bozsik was a key member of the legendary Golden Team as ...
, footballer, member of the
Golden Team
*Csinszka,
Endre Ady
Endre Ady (Hungarian: ''diósadi Ady András Endre,'' archaic English: Andrew Ady, 22 November 1877 – 27 January 1919) was a turn-of-the-century Hungarian poet and journalist. Regarded by many as the greatest Hungarian poet of the 20th century ...
's wife
*
Tamás Cseh, singer and songwriter
*
Zsuzsa Cserháti, singer
*
János Csonka, inventor
*
Béla Czóbel
Béla Czóbel (4 September 1883 – 30 January 1976) was a Hungarian painter, known for his association with The Eight in the early 20th century in Budapest. They were known for introducing Post-Impressionist styles into Hungary, in addition to ...
, painter
*
Ferenc Deák, footballer
*
József C. Dobos, inventor of the
Dobos Cake
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, a Hungarian speciality
*
Béla Egresi, footballer
*
István Eiben
István Eiben (21 December 1902 – 23 October 1958) was a Hungarian cinematographer.
Selected filmography
* ''Oliver Twist'' (1919)
* '' Number 111'' (1919)
* '' Hyppolit, the Butler'' (1931)
* '' The Old Scoundrel'' (1932)
* '' The Verdict o ...
, cinematographer
*
Pál Engel
Pál Engel (27 February 1938 – 21 August 2001) was a Hungarian medievalist historian and archivist, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He served as General Director of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1996 ...
, historian
*
Zoltán Fábri, director
*
Sári Fedák
Sári Fedák (Born Sarolta Klára Mária Fedák; 27 September 1879, Beregszász present-day Berehove, Ukraine – 05 May 1955, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian actress and singer, one of the most well-known prima donnas of her time. Accord ...
, actress
*
István Fekete István Fekete (25 January 1900, Gölle, Austria-Hungary – 23 June 1970, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian writer. He wrote several youth novels and animal stories.
He is perhaps best known for his youth novel ''Tüskevár'' ("Thorn Castle", 1 ...
, writer
*
János Ferencsik, conductor
*
Noel Field, communist agent and hidden victim of show trials
* Annie Fischer, pianist
*
Miklós Gábor, actor
*
Aladár Gerevich
Aladár Gerevich (16 March 1910 – 14 May 1991) was a Hungarian fencer, regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever". He won seven gold medals in sabre at six different Olympic Games.
Biography
Gerevich is only one of two athletes to ...
, seven-times olympic champion fencer
*
Gyula Germanus, orientalist
*
Ernő Gerő, communist politician
*
Hilda Gobbi
Hilda Emília Gizella Gobbi (6 June 1913 – 13 July 1988) was an award-winning Hungarian actress, known for her portrayals of elderly women. One of her most beloved performances was as Aunt Szabo in the radio soap opera ''The Szabo Family''. A ...
, actress
*
Lisl Goldarbeiter-model
*
András Hegedűs, Socialist Prime Minister
*
Éva Janikovszky
Éva Janikovszky (April 23, 1926 in Szeged – July 14, 2003 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer.
She wrote novels for both children and adults, but she is primarily known for her children's books, translated into 35 languages. Her first book ...
, writer of children's books
*
Pál Jávor, actor
*
Gyula Kabos
Gyula Kabos (19 March 1887, Budapest – 6 October 1941, New York) was a Hungarian actor and comedian, widely known for his comedic movie roles in the late 1930s.
Biography
Early years
Kabos was born on 19 March 1887, in Budapest as Gyul ...
, actor
*
Katalin Karády
Katalin Karády (8 December 1910 – 8 February 1990) was a Hungarian actress and singer. A leading actress in Hungarian movies made between 1939–1945, she is best known outside Hungary as an awardee of the Righteous among the Nations hon ...
, actress, singer
*
György Kárpáti
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, three-times olympic champion water polo player
*
Lajos Kassák, poet and painter
*
Manyi Kiss
Manyi Kiss (Born Margit Kiss; 12 March 1911 – 24 March 1971) was a Hungarian actress.
Career
She was born in Magyarlóna, Kolozs County, Hungary ''(now Luna de Sus, Romania)'', to Lajos Kiss and Zsuzsanna Nagy. She acted from 1926 in Cluj ' ...
, actress
*
Károly Kernstok, painter
*
Kálmán Kittenberger, Africa researcher, naturalist
* Zoltán Kocsis, pianist
*
Zoltán Kodály
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, composer, the sculpture made by Pál Pátzai
*
János Kodolányi, writer
*
György Kolonics
György "Kolo" Kolonics (4 June 1972 – 15 July 2008) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who won two gold and two bronze medals at four Summer Olympics. He also won a record fifteen gold medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. He di ...
, olympic champion sprint canoeist
*
Ilona Kolonits, documentary film director, war correspondent
*
Béla Kondor, painter
*
János Koós, dance singer, parodist, actor
*
Margit Kovács
Margit Kovács (1902–1977) was a Hungarian ceramist and sculptor.
Life
Margit Kovács was born in Győr, Hungary on 30 November 1902. She originally wished to become a graphic artist but she grew interested in ceramics in the 1920s and we ...
, ceramicist and sculptor
*
László Lajtha
László Lajtha (; 30 June 1892 – 16 February 1963) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor.
Career
Born to Ida Wiesel, a Transsylvanian-Hungarian and Pál Lajtha, an owner of a leather factory. The father Pál had ambitio ...
, composer
*
Kálmán Latabár
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, actor
*
Imre Makovecz, architect
*
György Marx
György Marx (25 May 1927 – 2 December 2002) was a Hungarian physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor. He discovered the lepton numbers and established the law of lepton flavor conservation.
Life
He was the first non-Briti ...
, physicist
*
Istvan Medgyaszay, architect
*
Ágnes Nemes Nagy
Ágnes Nemes Nagy (January 3, 1922 – August 23, 1991) was a Hungarian poet, writer, educator, and translator.
She was born in Budapest and earned a teaching diploma from the University of Budapest. From 1945 to 1953, she was employed by t ...
, poet
*
László Németh, writer
*
István Örkény, writer
*
László Papp, three-times olympic champion boxer
*
János Pilinszky, poet
*
Mátyás Rákosi
Mátyás Rákosi (; born Mátyás Rosenfeld; 9 March 1892
, Communist leader; now only his initials are visible to avoid vandalism
*
Éva Ruttkai, actress
*
Ferenc Sánta, writer
*
Zoltán Ozoray Schenker, Olympic fencing champion
*
Sándor Simonyi-Semadam
Sándor Simonyi-Semadam (23 March 1864 – 4 June 1946) was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister for a few months in 1920. He signed the Treaty of Trianon after World War I on 4 June 1920. By this treaty, Hungary lost a consider ...
, Prime Minister
*
Gábor Szabó, jazz guitarist
*
Árpád Szakasits, Socialist leader
*
Pál Szécsi
Pál Szécsi (19 March 1944 – 30 April 1974) was a Hungarian pop singer, one of the most popular of all time, who achieved unprecedented cult status during his lifetime.
Biography
Pál Szécsi was born on 19 March 1944 in Budapest. His fathe ...
, singer
*
Árpád Székely, painter, artist
*
Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti ( , ; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-servin ...
, conductor
*
Zoltán Tildy
Zoltán Tildy (; 18 November 1889 – 3 August 1961), was an influential leader of Hungary, who served as prime minister from 1945 to 1946 and president from 1946 until 1948 in the post-war period before the seizure of power by Soviet-backed com ...
, President
*
Amerigo Tot
Amerigo Tot (born Imre Tóth; 27 September 1909 – 13 December 1984) was a Hungarian sculptor and occasional actor. Born in Fehérvárcsurgó, Austria-Hungary he moved to Rome towards the end of the 1920s, where he lived for the rest of his li ...
(born Imre Tóth), sculptor and actor
*
László Verebélÿ, electrical engineer
*
Béla Volentik, footballer
*
Sándor Weöres, poet
*
József Zakariás, footballer, member of the
Golden Team
See also
*
Kerepesi Cemetery
Resources
mult-kor.hu
External links
Budapest Funeral Institute including
*
(with pictures)
:''(The above pages are only in Hungarian.)''
Farkasréti Cemetery
at Find a Grave
{{DEFAULTSORT:Farkasreti Cemetery
Cemeteries in Budapest
Religion in Budapest
1894 establishments in Hungary