Farkasréti Cemetery or Farkasrét Cemetery (, ) is one of the most famous cemeteries in Budapest. It opened in 1894 and is noted for its extensive views of the city (several people wanted it more to be a resort area than a cemetery).
It comprises tombs of numerous Hungarian notables and it is the most preferred burial place among actors, actresses and other artists (opera singers, musicians, painters, sculptors, architects, writers, poets). The cemetery is also home to the tombs of several scientists, academicians and athletes.
Graves are often decorated with noteworthy sculptures. It was provided with parks in the 1950s, when it took on its present appearance and extent. The mortuary hall and the new chapel were built in the 1980s to the plans of Imre Makovecz.
In the Communist era, funerals were restricted in Kerepesi Cemetery, so it became the main cemetery for those who could not get one.
It is located in Buda (the Western part of Budapest), approximately 3 km away from the downtown.
The oldest grave that is still located in its original place is that of the mechanical engineer Ferenc Cathry Szaléz, the designer of the Rack railway in Budapest and the original Mária Valéria bridge in Esztergom.
Notable interments Vilmos Aba Novák, painter Karl Aschenbrenner, philosopher Péter Bacsó, film director and screenwriter Ervin Baktay, orientalist Donát Bánki, inventor Béla Bartók, composer, the sculpture made by Miklós Borsos Pal Benko, chess player and chess composer Dénes Berinkey, Prime Minister Aurél Bernáth, painter and poet Sándor Bíró, footballer Miklós Borsos, sculptor József Bozsik, footballer, member of the Golden Team Károly Bund, forestry engineer and environmentalist Csinszka, Endre Ady's wife Tamás Cseh, singer and songwriter Zsuzsa Cserháti, singer János Csonka, inventor Béla Czóbel, painter Ferenc Deák, footballer József C. Dobos, inventor of the Dobos Cake, a Hungarian speciality Béla Egresi, footballer István Eiben, cinematographer Pál Engel, historian Zoltán Fábri, director Sári Fedák, actress István Fekete, writer János Ferencsik, conductor Noel Field, communist agent and hidden victim of show trials Annie Fischer, pianist Miklós Gábor, actor Aladár Gerevich, seven-times Olympic champion fencer Gyula Germanus, orientalist Ernő Gerő, communist politician Hilda Gobbi, actress Lisl Goldarbeiter, model András Hegedűs, Socialist Prime Minister Laszlo Heltay, choral trainer Géza Hofi, comedian Béla Horváth, Secretary of State for the Interior in Lakatos cabinet Éva Janikovszky, writer of children's books Pál Jávor, actor Gyula Kabos, actor Katalin Karády, actress, singer György Kárpáti, three-times Olympic champion water polo player Lajos Kassák, poet and painter Manyi Kiss, actress Károly Kernstok, painter Kálmán Kittenberger, Africa researcher, naturalist Zoltán Kocsis, pianist Zoltán Kodály, composer, the sculpture made by Pál Pátzai János Kodolányi, writer György Kolonics, Olympic champion sprint canoeist Ilona Kolonits, documentary film director, war correspondent Béla Kondor, painter János Koós, dance singer, parodist, actor Margit Kovács, ceramicist and sculptor László Lajtha, composer Kálmán Latabár, actor Imre Makovecz, architect György Marx, physicist Istvan Medgyaszay, architect Ágnes Nemes Nagy, poet László Németh, writer István Örkény, writer László Papp, three-times Olympic champion boxer János Pilinszky, poet Mátyás Rákosi, Communist leader; now only his initials are visible to avoid vandalism Éva Ruttkai, actress Ferenc Sánta, writer Zoltán Ozoray Schenker, Olympic fencing champion Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, Prime Minister Gábor Szabó, jazz guitarist Árpád Szakasits, Socialist leader Pál Szécsi, singer Árpád Székely, painter, artist Georg Solti, conductor Zoltán Tildy, President Amerigo Tot (born Imre Tóth), sculptor and actor László Verebélÿ, electrical engineer Béla Volentik, footballer Sándor Weöres, poet József Zakariás, footballer, member of the Golden Team
See also Kerepesi Cemetery
Resources mult-kor.hu
External links
Budapest Funeral Institute, including an overview of the cemetery List of celebrities with biographies who rest in this cemetery (with pictures) (The above pages are only in Hungarian.)