Memorial or cemetery
Antsla cemetery
German: Anzen
Antsla cemetery was designed in 1934 as a forest cemetery by Jaan Port, head of the University of Tartu botanical garden. It was laid out among the trees in 1936 and 1937, about a kilometre from town, and the first burial took place in December 1937. The cemetery holds a common grave of those killed in the Second World War. Sculptor Endel Taniloo designed the granite gravestone of Jaan Antsov in 1976. Both the war grave and that gravestone were once listed as separate monuments, but since 2024 they are protected as part of the cemetery, itself a monument since 1997. The small chapel was finished in 1993 and consecrated by Villu Jürjo, then pastor of Urvaste.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Antsla kalmistu kavandas 1934. aastal metsakalmistuna Tartu Ülikooli botaanikaaia juhataja Jaan Port. See rajati aastatel 1936–1937 linnast umbes kilomeetri kaugusele metsa ja esimene matus toimus detsembris 1937. Kalmistul asub II maailmasõjas hukkunute ühishaud. Kujur Endel Taniloo tegi 1976. aastal Jaan Antsovi graniidist hauasamba. Mõlemad olid varem eraldi kultuurimälestised, kuid alates 2024. aastast on need kaitse all kalmistu osana. Kalmistu ise on kultuurimälestis alates 1997. aastast. Kabel valmis 1993. aastal ja selle õnnistas sisse toonane Urvaste kirikuõpetaja Villu Jürjo.