2. Ptuj Cemeteries
From the Middle Ages onwards, there were several cemeteries in different locations in Ptuj. The noble families, including the Lords of Ptuj, found their last rest in the crypt of the church of the Dominican Monastery. The local nobility and some citizens were buried in the Minorite Monastery. The city hospital had its own cemetery for impoverished patients (from 1315, courtyard of today's Music School). Jews and people of other denominations were buried at the Jewish cemetery or later in the cemetery of All Saints (the Jewish quarter in Jadranska Street, 13th century). The inhabitants of Kaniža, a suburb of Ptuj, were buried in the cemetery by the Church of St. Ožbalt. The main city cemetery was arranged around St. George’s Church. It was almost completely destroyed in a great fire on 16th May 1684.
Cemeteries were always subjected to sanitary-hygiene regulations. Burials had to be carried out at designated sites, thereby limiting the spread of infectious diseases and groundwater pollution.
