Hősök Temetője
In Hősök Temetője once stood Sopron’s military “hero cemetery” — a cemetery that opened in 1878 and stayed active until 1945. It lay on the western side of Alom-hegy, between the former Sopronbánfalva and Felsőlőverek, pressed right up against the municipal cemetery and the neighboring site of the former Pálos–Carmelite monastery. When you think about what happened here, the numbers land fast: more than 3,200 soldiers, prisoners of war, and civilian victims were buried there. The first burial in 1878 was for Schülze Lajos, a huszár captain who lived 1826–1878. By the early 1900s, about a dozen graves from that period still had identifiable stonework. …
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