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Hospital Cemetery
The cemetery for the poor and hospitalized was located on today's Grazer Straße, opposite the former Kovacs inn.In 1900 the hospital Güssing, which later became the property of the county Eisenburg, had been opened, the market town of Güssing made a cemetery place available for the destitute deceased: the hospital cemetery or "Armenfriedhof". The municipality had the duty of care for destitute members of the community, who had the home jurisdiction, the "Heimatrecht", in Güssing. In 1927 a bell frame was erected and a 50 kg bell was consecrated (31.7.1927).
The last dead person was buried in the municipal cemetery in 1951. After 30 years of "lying fallow" of the cemetery the municipality of Güssing in 1982 gave up the place in exchange for another plot of land to the Draskovich manor.
Of the total area of 8,334 m2 , 4,559 m2 was sold because of the construction of the main road and the Kovacs rest house. Those buried in the sold part of the cemetery were exhumed and buried in the remaining part of the cemetery.
Today some (abandoned) graves and a memorial plaque at the cemetery St. Jakob (Güssing local cemetery, near the burial place where some priests of Güssing are buried) still remind of those who died at the hospital cemetery.
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