Mozartovy sady Park

Mozart Gardens, also called Mozart Park, are located in Karlovy Vary on a slope not far from the cemetery church of Saint Andrew. They extend from the Thermal hotel pool to the church and are bordered, among other streets, by Ondřejská Street and Bezručova Street. The gardens were established in 1911 and bear the name of Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, the son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was buried here in 1844.

The park was created on the site of an old municipal cemetery. It was established after an epidemic in 1784 beyond the Ostrovská Gate, at the end of Ostrovská Alley, today's Ondřejská Street, then on the northeastern edge of the city. It replaced the previous cemetery at the church of Saint Mary Magdalene. From 1859 onwards, burials also took place at the new cemetery in Drahovice. The Andrew Cemetery was eventually closed and incorporated into the park. The year of its transformation is given as either 1911 or 1913. Remains of the original cemetery have been preserved north of the church.

In the central part of the park, twenty stone tombstones of notable figures from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are arranged in a large semicircle above the path. Among them is an Empire-style tombstone of Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart himself, a composer and pianist. Also resting here is Count Joseph von Bolz, a patron of Karlovy Vary, and Berlin architect Friedrich Gilly, a representative of the Empire style, who died in 1800 at the age of twenty-nine.

Local personalities are also commemorated here. They include spa physicians David Becher and Rudolf Mannl, the latter of whom was also a member of the city council, and Karlovy Vary printer and publisher Franz Franieck. Also buried here are guests from afar: Dresden senator Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Wills with a Baroque tombstone, merchant from Saarbrücken Samuel Kleber, whose grave is decorated with a stone column entwined with ivy, or August Gfroerer from Calw in Württemberg. There is also the grave of Johann Ritter von Weyrother, captain of the Loket region, who died in 1817.

Artistically interesting is a Neoclassical tombstone from around 1800 in the shape of a column with an urn and a mourning woman. The sculpture comes from the circle of Václav Prachner.

A special place is occupied by the grave at the presbytery of the church of Saint Andrew. It contains Jean de Carro, a Karlovy Vary spa physician and balneologist, a friend of the Czech nation and promoter of Karlovy Vary. His pseudo-Gothic tombstone commemorates a man who died in 1857.