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Old graveyard

The Old Cemetery adjoining to the south was used as a city cemetery until December 30, 1793; a plaque from 2001 commemorates this. The former burial ground is now covered by a lawn. Historically valuable tombstones of canons and noble families were placed in the arcades from the 18th century; underneath is a memorial stone of Oswald von Wolkenstein, which he himself had built in 1408 during his lifetime before starting a pilgrimage to Palestine and had it erected in a chapel of the cathedral. In the middle of the cemetery there is a Gothic death lamp from 1483. In the western arcade of the cemetery there is a war memorial from 1960, dedicated to those killed in the First and Second World War; the figurative representation of a falling soldier was created by the sculptor Othmar Winkler .

Old-graveyard
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