Cemetery in Prostějov, Cemetery in Prostějov, Czech Republic

Cemetery in Prostějov is a burial ground with multiple sections and thousands of grave sites marked by stone monuments and memorials. The grounds document local residents spanning many generations.

The municipal cemetery was founded in 1900 on Brněnská Street at the southern edge of Prostějov, next to the Jewish cemetery. The arcades flanking the entrance were built to designs by architect Čeněk Venclík in 1902 and 1907, the bell tower dates from 1928, and a modern funeral hall by Blahoslav Adamík was added on the western edge in 1976.

The arcades by Čeněk Venclík (1902 and 1907) hold the tombs of notable Prostějov citizens, and the cemetery is the burial place of poet Jiří Wolker and inventor Otto Wichterle. The grave of 44 soldiers who died of dysentery in 1914–1915 carries a granite obelisk with a kneeling woman in Haná folk dress.

The main entrance is on Brněnská street at the southern edge of Prostějov, with the Jewish cemetery adjoining the southern side. Behind the gate, the caretaker's house stands to the right and the 1928 bell tower to the left; the arcades with family tombs flank the entrance. Graves are laid out in a regular grid around the central cross, with the columbarium, urn grove and scattering meadow at the northern edge and the 1976 funeral hall to the west.

The grave of Jano Köhler's 1926 memorial to Karel Dostál-Lutinov holds a mosaic of 330 glazed tiles showing the Entombment, with Dostál-Lutinov himself portrayed as Nicodemus and Köhler as Joseph of Arimathea.