Municipal cemetery

An important cultural and historical monument of the town are its cemeteries, which, besides reflecting the town's population, property level, social stratification, ethnic and confessional composition of its inhabitants in the past centuries, are also a concentration of many architectural and artistic monuments and sculptural works in the form of valuable tombstones, tombs and crypts. The municipal cemetery has evolved from several separate sections. The largest was the Roman Catholic cemetery with a church, a poorhouse and a mortuary. To the south of it was the Protestant cemetery with an old-age cemetery. Separately, there was a new neological Jewish cemetery with a burial chapel founded in 1876. A large military garrison and military events in the 19th and 20th centuries necessitated the establishment of a military cemetery. To the east of the Protestant cemetery, a so-called municipal cemetery was established for citizens who, for various reasons, could not or did not want to be buried in any of the church cemeteries. These individual parts later grew so much that they now form a single unit.