The Eastern Cemetery ( sv, Östra kyrkogården) is a cemetery in

Uddevalla Uddevalla (old no, Oddevold) is a town and the seat of Uddevalla Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. In 2015, it had a population of 34 781. It is located at a bay of the south-eastern part of Skagerrak. The beaches of Uddevalla ...

, Sweden. It belongs to the

Church of Sweden The Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.6 million members at year end 2021, it is the largest Christian denomination in Swed ...

, which professes to

Lutheranism Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

, and serves as burial grounds for – primarily – the members of Bäve Parish ( sv).

History

It is one of the oldest active cemeteries in urban Uddevalla, together with the contemporary Northern Cemetery, which was created 1809–1810. From the medieval period and onwards until the period around the great fire of 1806, most citizens of Uddevalla were buried by the now-lost Saint Mikael's Church. In 1812 land was purchased to house the Eastern Cemetery, which was opened in 1813. The cemetery was expanded southwards in 1892, with an additional land purchase. In 1905 full ownership was handed over to the Church of Sweden, which was the state church at the time. A number of prominent people from the city have been buried at the Eastern Cemetery, among them the businessman and politician

Ture Malmgren Ture Robert Ferdinand Malmgren (7 June 1851 – 3 August 1922) was a Swedish journalist, book publisher, and municipal politician. A prominent figure in his home Uddevalla, Malmgren became a colourful and well-known part of the city's history thro ...

, the creator of

Tureborg Castle Tureborg Castle is a faux-medieval castle located in Uddevalla Municipality, Sweden, it sits atop a hill overlooking the neighbourhood of Tureborg . It was constructed during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Today a ruin after a ...

, who died in 1922. His wife Hilma Malmgren survived him by several decades, and was buried next to him following her death in 1942. Other prominent burials include the parish priest Casten Rabe (buried in 1836), the provost Magnus Ullman (1842), the colonel Georg Gillis von Heideman, and a range of members from the historically well-known Bagge family. In 2015 it was proposed that the walkway by the cemetery would be renamed for the noted Uddevalla historian, Sten Kristiansson, who died in 1957.

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