The former Újfalu cemetery

In 1780, on the outskirts of Újfalu, which had grown together with it, in the Téglaház estate, on the Pálffy family estate (in the area of today's hotel and district office), a new cemetery was established for the closely connected settlements (Szerdahely, Újfalu, Pókatelek, etc.). According to the royal decree (mainly for hygiene reasons), burials around the Catholic church had to be stopped. ; The newly appearing and recurring epidemics also made it clear that the "old cemetery", which had already become crowded, could no longer function in the middle of the city, which is why a new one was built between Újfalu and Sikabony. ; Since the beginning of church registration (1673), we know that the dead of Szerdahely, Újfalu, Nemesszeg and Pókatelek were laid to rest in the Szerdahely and then Újfalu cemeteries, while Tejede had separate cemeteries. For example, many people from Nemesszeg were buried in the former Tejede cemetery, which has now been degraded into a dog walking area. ; When the Újfalu cemetery was founded, the Konds erected a large cross in it, which was replaced in 1833 by a stone cross made by Anna Finta (this cross stands next to the church today, on the north side). ; Catholics were buried in one half of the cemetery, and Calvinists and Lutherans in the other. ; In 1857, the seventy-seven-year-old cemetery had to be expanded, and during the division, a plot of land was added to it with the permission of the Pálffys. ; A hundred years later, at the end of the 1950s, the city cemetery was closed down for “urban planning reasons” and was barbarically bulldozed – anyone who could moved their graves and ancestors to the Kisudvarnoki Street cemetery, but many old graves were lost and destroyed. Unfortunately, completely ignoring the reasons for piety, they carried out their rough work while preparing the foundations of the future hotel and district office, not sparing the coffins or bones of the deceased. The Kriha-style Heart of Jesus Chapel, built at the beginning of the 20th century, was not spared either, and this trace of the past was erased by knocking down its walls.