Liberec Crematory / Liberecké krematorium (North Bohemia)
N 50° 45.704 E 015° 03.434
33U E 504036 N 5623330
Quick Description: Exceptional example of the late Art-Nouveau funeral architecture, the City crematory, you can find in regional metropolis Liberec (North Bohemia, Czech Republic).
Location: Liberecky kraj, Czech Republic
Date Posted: 11/1/2009 12:04:42 PM
Waymark Code: WM7JM8
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Long Description:
Liberec Crematory (Liberecké
krematorium) can serve as example of late Art-Nouveau building of
municipal services. The structure, in its forms and sculptural
decorations still in late Art-Noveau style, is bearing also pure
and simple lines of ingoing modernism.
The Crematory, first in the Czech
lands and also in former Austro-Hungarian empire, was built
according to the project of dresdener architect Rudolf Bitzan in
1916-1917. But the first cremation here was conceded as far as
after fall of the Empire, in the first days of the new Republic, in
October 1918...