An Ehrengrab (English: 'grave of honor') is a distinction granted by certain German, Swiss and Austrian cities to some of their citizens for extraordinary services or achievements in their lifetimes. If there are no descendants or institutions to care for the gravesites, the communities or cities will take responsibility for the graves and for financing their care.
Many Ehrengräber (honor graves) also serve to document cultural history; for example, when a cemetery containing artistically notable graves is closed and the graves are moved at public expense.
The basic details of the awarding, financing and care of honorary graves are similarly handled in all German-speaking countries. Berlin and Vienna maintain the largest number of such sites.
An Ehrengrab (English: 'grave of honor') is a distinction granted by certain German, Swiss and Austrian cities to some of their citizens for extraordinary...
Presse-Service (November 7, 2014). "Archivmeldung: Hedy Lamarr erhält Ehrengrab der Stadt Wien". Presseservice der Stadt Wien (in German). Retrieved November...
grave in the Eisackstrasse Cemetery became a grave of honour (German: Ehrengrab) in Berlin. Die Voraussetzungen des Sozialismus (1899) was Bernstein's...
2013, S. 41 Ehrengrab für Adolf Ehrtmann. In: Lübecker Nachrichten. 8. März 2018, S. 13. Nachrichten, Lübecker (7 March 2018). "Ehrengrab für Adolf Ehrtmann"...
April 1989. She was cremated and honoured with burial in the Pergolenweg Ehrengrab section of Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Cemetery. Benjamin received several...
Berlin are buried at the cemetery; some have a grave of honor (German: Ehrengrab). In particular, all of Berlin's deceased post-war mayors are buried here...
Dorotheenstadt cemetery. In 2018, the city of Berlin designated her grave as an Ehrengrab. Although Wolf's works were widely praised in both Germanys in the 1970s...
4 February 1952 and was interred in a Berlin grave of honor (German: Ehrengrab). Fontane changed myriad details so as not to imperil privacy of those...
Naming of Werfelstrasse in Hernals (Vienna) 1975 Grave of honor (German: Ehrengrab) in the Zentralfriedhof (Vienna) 1990 Stamp Austria, Franz Werfel 1890–1945...
He was cremated and buried in his brother's grave in the Pergolenweg Ehrengrab section of Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Cemetery. In 2011 the State Social...
think of ways to make it more attractive: Hence honorary graves (German: Ehrengrab) as a way of attracting tourists were established. Interred in the Central...
who died in 1987. In 1995, the Senate of Berlin declared the grave an Ehrengrab des Landes Berlin (Honorary Grave). In 1930, George was playing the role...
obscurity in Vienna at the age of 75. He was cremated and buried in an Ehrengrab in the Vienna Zentralfriedhof. Die geheimnisvolle Villa (1914) Tales of...
death Wollweber was cremated and honoured with burial in the Pergolenweg Ehrengrab section of Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Cemetery. Ghouas, Nessim (2004). The...
January 1988. He was cremated and honoured with burial in the Pergolenweg Ehrengrab section of Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Cemetery. A documentary film about...
was attended by more than 1 million people and he was honored with an Ehrengrab (honorary grave) in the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf. "Ihr Völker der Welt...
Fascism. She was cremated and honoured with burial in the Pergolenweg Ehrengrab section of Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Cemetery. "Elly Winter | filmportal...
birthday and found her final resting place in a grave of honor (German: Ehrengrab) at the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 C, number 48). 1955: Golden...
imperative efforts of the USSR.[citation needed] 1945: Memorial Grave (Ehrengrab) in Vienna (Friedhof in Neustift am Walde) 1949: A street in Vienna is...
death. He died from kidney cancer in 1965 in Vienna, and is buried in an Ehrengrab at the Zentralfriedhof. His son Johannes was International Commissioner...
Grabern, Lower Austria and is commemorated in a grave of honor (German: Ehrengrab) in Vienna Central Cemetery. Johanna Dohnal Platz in Vienna 6 was named...
to 1978. He was cremated and honoured with burial in the Pergolenweg Ehrengrab section of Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Cemetery. 1955: Once Is Never 1956:...
located in Berlin at the Friedhof Heerstraße (Feld 8-C-10 (Reg. 335) (Ehrengrab)). The British historian A. J. P. Taylor wrote: Harden was certainly the...
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