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t Central Cemetery Theophil Hansen’s Grave VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
The architect of Vienna’s Parliament building
Austria’s largest cemetery, opened in 1874, (see p123) rests near other artists and Practical Information
contains 300,000 graves inside an area of architects. Hansen died in 1891. Simmeringer Hauptstrasse 234,
2.5 sq km (1 sq mile). Funerals are usually Tor 2, A­1110. Tel 534690. Open
daily; Nov–Feb: 8am–5pm; Mar,
quite lavish affairs, as the Viennese like to be Oct: 7am–6pm; Apr–Sep: 7am–
buried in style, with the pomp appropriate 7pm (May–Aug: to 8pm Thu). 8
to their station in life. The underground 9 7 ∑ friedhoefewien.at
funeral museum plays popular funeral dirges Museum: Tel 76067. Open
9am–4:30pm Mon–Fri.
and shows rare footage of the interment of . Luegerkirche ∑ bestattungsmuseum.at
Franz Josef I. Max Hegele, a pupil of Otto
Wagner, designed this church Transport
< Zentralfriedhof, Kledering.
dedicated to Vienna’s v 6, 71.
mayor in 1907–10.
The Arcades
Some spectacular monuments
are carved in the semicircular
arcades facing the main entrance,
including this 1848 memorial to
the miner August Zang.

Main entrance
Presidential Vault from Simmeringer
This contains the remains of Dr Karl Hauptstrasse
Renner, the first president of the
Austrian Republic after World War II.

Cemetery Layout
The cemetery is divided into specific
numbered sections: as well as the
central garden of honour where VIPs
are buried, there are old and new
Jewish cemeteries; a Protestant
cemetery; a Russian Orthodox
section; and various war graves The Monument to the Dead
and memorials. It is easier to take of World War I is a powerful
the circulating bus that covers the depiction of a mother
whole area than to walk. lamenting by Anton Hanak.

Arnold Schönberg’s Cube
The grave of the modernist Viennese
composer Arnold Schönberg is
marked with this bold cube by
Fritz Wotruba.
Old Jewish
cemetery Key
1 Arcades around the
Islamic area Luegerkirche . Musicians’
2 Fritz Wotruba’s grave (see p173) Graves
Among the city’s musicians
3 Monument to Dr Johann buried in this area are
Protestant area Nepomuk Prix by Viktor Tilgner (1894) Johann Strauss I and II
4 Bestattungsmuseum, the (grave pictured left), Russian Orthodox Chapel
Undertakers’ Museum, gives a Beethoven, Brahms and Built in traditional Russian
New Jewish cemetery fascinating insight into the history of Schubert. There is a monu­ Orthodox style and completed
Vienna’s love affair with stylish burials. ment to Mozart, who is in 1894, this chapel is used by
buried in St Marx cemetery. Vienna’s Russian community.

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