| Ďáblice Cemetery | |
|---|---|
Ďáblický hřbitov | |
 Gate of the cemetery | |
 Interactive map of Ďáblice Cemetery | |
| Details | |
| Established | 1914 |
| Location | |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Coordinates | 50°8′9″N14°28′49″E / 50.13583°N 14.48028°E /50.13583; 14.48028 |
| Type | Public |
| Size | Over 29 hectares (72 acres) |
| No. of graves | 20,000 |
Ďáblice Cemetery (Czech:Ďáblický hřbitov) is a graveyard inPrague, Czech Republic. It is located in theĎáblice municipal district inPrague 8, in the northern part of Prague. It is the second largest cemetery in Prague by area.
The cemetery was founded in 1912 as Prague's central burial place and built in 1912–1914. It has an area of more than 29 ha (72 acres), making it the second largest cemetery in Prague by area afterOlšany Cemetery. The entrance pavilions were designed in theCubist style byVlastislav Hofman.[1][2]
Over 20,000 registeredgraves are located here. In addition to regular graves, there are about 70mass graves containing bodies of over 14,000 people in total.[citation needed]
The cemetery area is both a valuable architectural monument and a historical monument. There is intention to declare a part of the cemetery anational cultural monument. This initiative is hampered by the objection that, apart from thousands of the victims of Nazism and hundreds of the victims of communism, the mass graves also contain thousands of bodies or body parts of unknown people who died in Prague hospitals and were subsequently used for pathological or academicautopsies.[3][4]
Since 1943, Czech people executed by Nazis or killed whilefighting Nazis were buried there.[5] The Ďáblice Cemetery is known as the resting place of the resistance fighters of World War II, and at the same time there is an unmarked grave with several war criminals executed after trials after World War II.[6] Notable people buried at Ďáblice Cemetery include:
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