Mirogoj Cemetery

The Mirogoj Cemetery () 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; irreligious graves can all be found. In the arcades are the last resting places of many famous Croatians.

History
The Mirogoj Cemetery was built on a plot of land owned by the linguist Ljudevit Gaj, purchased by the city in 1872, after his death.  Architect Hermann Bollé designed the main building. The new cemetery was inaugurated on 6 November 1876.

The construction of the arcades, the cupolas, and the church in the entryway was begun in 1879. Due to lack of funding, work was finished only in 1929.

Unlike the older cemeteries, which were church-owned, Mirogoj was owned by the city, and accepted burials from all religious backgrounds.

Notable interments

Zlatko Baloković - violinist
Hermann Bollé - architect
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić - writer
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
Arsen Dedić - singer-songwriter and composer 
Dimitrija Demeter - a Greek Croatian, who played a major role in the movement for the national awakening of the Croatian nation
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
Hugo Ehrlich - known architect
Aleksandar Ehrmann - known industrialist, philanthropist and diplomat
Ljudevit Gaj - co-founder of the Illyrian movement
Leo Hönigsberg - Croatian architect and co-owner of the architecture studio Hönigsberg & Deutsch
Hosea Jacobi - Chief Rabbi of Zagreb
Miroslav Krleža - writer
Oton Kučera - astronomer
Zinka Kunc (Milanov), famous soprano
Svetozar Kurepa - mathematician
Ante Kovačić - writer from Hrvatsko Zagorje
Vatroslav Lisinski - composer
Vladko Maček - politician, co-signatory of the Cvetković-Maček Agreement
Savić Marković Štedimlija - Montenegrin-Croat publicist.
Antun Gustav Matoš - writer
Andrija Mohorovičić - sismologist
Edo Murtić - painter
Vladimir Nazor - writer and first President of People's Republic/Socialist Republic of Croatia
Maximilian Njegovan - Commander-in-chief and admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala - Inventor
Dražen Petrović - member of both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame
Milka Planinc - first and only female prime minister of Yugoslavia
Vladimir Prelog - Nobel prize-winning chemist
Petar Preradović - poet
Stjepan Radić - leader of the Croatian Peasants Party
August Šenoa - writer
Ivica Šerfezi - singer and politician supporter of HSS
Ivan Šubašić - last Ban of Croatia
Milka Ternina, famous soprano
Franjo Tuđman - the first president of Republic of Croatia
Vice Vukov - singer and politician
Tin Ujević - poet
Emil Uzelac - head of the Austro-Hungarian air force
Ivan Zajc - composer

Memorials
Monument to Fallen Croatian Soldiers in World War I (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 every 20 minutes during the cemetery's opening hours.
A less frequent line, 226 (every 35–40 minutes), also starts from Kaptol by the same route, but continues farther east to Svetice terminal, directly connecting to the Maksimir Park.

Gallery

See also

History of Zagreb

Notes

Sources

External links
 
Mirogoj Cemetery at Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe

Category:Cemeteries in Croatia
Category:Eastern Orthodox cemeteries
Category:Jewish cemeteries
Category:Roman Catholic cemeteries
Category:Lutheran cemeteries
Category:Protestant Reformed cemeteries
Category:Buildings and structures in Zagreb
Category:Gornji Grad–Medveščak
Category:Hermann Bollé buildings
Category:1876 establishments in Austria-Hungary