Sad Dr. Milady Horákové, Urban park in central Ostrava, Czech Republic
Sad Dr. Milady Horákové is a park laid out on the grounds of Moravská Ostrava's former main city cemetery, founded in 1875 and demolished by 1979. It lies on the edge of today's historic centre, in the Moravská Ostrava district. Paths cross the former burial ground, and the cemetery's crematorium, built in 1925 to a Cubist design by architect Vlastislav Hofman, stood here until its demolition in 1979.
The site began as a cemetery in 1875 and served the city as a burial ground for decades. When the cemetery closed in the 1950s, the grounds were transformed into a public park.
The park occupies the site of the former Moravian Ostrava municipal cemetery, and its name since the Velvet Revolution honours Milada Horáková. The grounds were renamed Sad Klementa Gottwalda in the 1950s and only received her name after 1989, when the space was also given a more reverent layout.
The park lies on the western edge of the historic centre of Moravská Ostrava, on the site of the former city cemetery. It is a flat, open green space crossed by footpaths, so it can be walked through in a short time. The grounds are open and unenclosed, with no gates to plan around.
The cemetery was abolished in stages and definitively demolished in 1979; remains were moved to the Central Cemetery in Slezská Ostrava, established in 1961, where a new Jewish cemetery was also laid out. The crematorium building, designed by Vlastislav Hofman in Cubist style and operating from 1925, was demolished with the cemetery.
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