Otto Hūna kapavieta
- Cemetery:
- Riga Great cemetery / Lielie kapiView cemetery
- Related persons:
- 1view records
Otto Hūna (Otto Huhn) (1764.-1832.) - vācbaltu zinātnieka kapavieta. Rīgas Lielie kapi, Jēkaba kapu iecirknis. Piemineklis veidots pelēkā granītā, nogāzts ar uzraksta daļu uz augšu. Sākotnēji pieminekļa abās pusēs uzraksti bijuši apzeltīti, rotāti ar simbolisku ārstniecības dieva Eskulapa zizli. Pieminekli rotājusi urna, kura zudusi.
Riga Great cemetery / Lielie kapi
- Interments:
- 2125view records
- Active from:
- 01.01.1773
- Area:
- 22.00 ha
- Monuments:
- 4view records
The cemetery was established in 1773 and was the main cemetery for almost all Baltic Germans who died in the city between 1773 and 1944. The cemetery was divided into three section: Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox Christian. It consists of 22 hectares (54 acres) and is owned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia. The cemetery was closed for further burials in 1957.
Most of the stones were removed during Soviet occupation to create a park but some monuments, as does some mausoleums remain and the cemetery looks more like a city park. It was divided into sections according to religious denomination. Jekaba kapi and Pokrova kapi were originally connected to Lielie kapi but in the late 1960's, Sencu iela (street) was built and divided it from them.
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