Taborfriedhof, Protected cemetery in Tabor district, Steyr, Austria.
The Taborfriedhof is a four-hectare cemetery with 8,500 graves in the Tabor district of Steyr. Its oldest section, completed in 1584, is a square Campo Santo entered through a Renaissance archway and bordered by an arcade with 84 vaults. The adjoining urn cemetery with its crematorium opened in 1927 and is run by the city magistrate.
The site developed in the 1500s with Renaissance entrance architecture and an arcade corridor housing crypts as its oldest features. A crematorium was added in the 1900s, reflecting changing burial practices in the region.
Two parishes share responsibility for the grounds, reflecting how the local community organized burial practices along religious and administrative lines. Visitors can observe this division when walking through the different sections of the cemetery.
The Erdfriedhof belongs to the Stadtpfarre Steyr and the Vorstadtpfarre St. Michael, while the neighbouring Urnenfriedhof with the crematorium is run by the Magistrat Steyr. The Uprimnystiege, named after Friedrich Uprimny, leads from Wieserfeldplatz to a side entrance by the cemetery administration. The grounds were comprehensively renovated from 2000 onwards.
The urn cemetery beside the Taborfriedhof opened in 1927 with a crematorium designed by architect Franz Koppelhuber. The site was assigned in 1926 to the association "Die Flamme" because the Catholic Church rejected cremation at the time. The urn cemetery is administered by the Magistrat Steyr, not by the parishes.
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