Městský hřbitov v Žacléři, Catholic cemetery in Žacléř, Czech Republic.
The municipal cemetery in Žacléř is a burial ground with graves arranged along stone pathways, featuring traditional grave markers and crosses. The site is surrounded by trees and vegetation, blending natural features with maintained walkways throughout the grounds.
The cemetery behind the Church of the Holy Trinity likely existed from the town's earliest settlement. Originally on the town's edge, it was later enclosed on two sides by newer buildings: the former local hospital, now a rehabilitation institute, and mainly recreational buildings to the north. Partial repairs to the cemetery wall were carried out in 2015, and burials continue today.
The cemetery preserves a row of German tombstones alongside the graves of nine Red Army soldiers and two French prisoners of war forced to work in the local coal mine. Among those buried are Anton Kopp, parish priest from 1865 to 1889 and initiator of repairs to the Church of the Holy Trinity, and Alfred Waldau (1837–1882), a notary, poet and ethnographer born Josef Jarosch.
The cemetery lies behind the Church of the Holy Trinity, entered through a gate by the former mortuary, a single-storey building. The grounds form a long, narrow, irregular rectangle, bounded partly by a wall and partly by a metal fence; the wall was partly repaired in 2015. The site is still in use for burials.
Among the German headstones stands the grave of two French prisoners of war forced to work in the local coal mine, and a common grave of nine Red Army soldiers. The cemetery also holds the grave of poet and ethnographer Alfred Waldau (1837–1882), a Žacléř notary born Josef Jarosch.
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