Patrick Macnee
Opened in 1874, the central Cimetière of Vienna ( Zentralfriedhof ) is the largest cemetery of the Austrian capital , located at the South, in the district Simmering.
This cemetery counts in particular the tombs of many famous musicians. It is the June 22nd 1888 which Beethoven and Schubert joined their tombs in the “district of the musicians”, who were gathered with the central cemetery. The tombs of the musicians are divided into arc of circle: Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, von Suppé, Johann Strauss (father and wire), as well as the monument of Mozart, this last not being buried here, but in the cemetery St Marx.
Some famous people buried with the central cemetery of Vienna
- Ludwig van Beethoven, (1770 - 1827) type-setter
- Ludwig Boltzmann, (1844 - 1906), mathematician/physicist
- Johannes Brahms, (1833 - 1897) type-setter
- Falco, singer
- Anton Dominik Fernkorn, (1813 - 1878), sculptor
- Alexander Girardi, (1850 - 1918), actor
- Christoph Willibald Gluck, (1714 - 1787), type-setter
- Theophilos von Hansen, (1813 - 1891), architect
- Johann Ritter von Herbeck, (1831 - 1877), type-setter
- Curd Jürgens, (1912 - 1982), actor
- Bruno Kreisky, (1911 - 1990), statesman
- Joseph Lanner, (1801 - 1843), type-setter
- Burbot Lehmann, (1888 - 1976), singer of opera
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , (1756 - 1791), type-setter (more exactly: a Cénotaphe recalls its memory to Zentralfriedhof, but it was buried in a common grave to the cemetery St Marx).
- Helen Odilon, (1865 - 1939), actress
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst, (1885 - 1967), realizer of the cinema
- Helmut Qualtinger, (1928 - 1986), actor
- Léonie Rysanek, (1926 - 1998), singer of opera
- Arnold Schönberg, (1874 - 1951), type-setter/painter
- Franz Schubert, (1797 - 1828), type-setter
- Alma Seidler, (1899 - 1977), actress
- Robert Stolz, (1880 - 1975), type-setter
- Edouard Strauss, (1835 - 1916), type-setter
- Johann Strauss father, (1804 - 1849), type-setter
- Johann Strauss wire, (1825 - 1899), type-setter
- Joseph Strauss, (1827 - 1870), type-setter
- Franz von Suppé, (1819 - 1895), type-setter and driver of operettas
- Franz Werfel, (1890 - 1945), poet, writer, husband of Alma Mahler
- Anton Wildgans, (1881 - 1932), poet
- Fritz Wotruba, (1907 - 1975), sculptor
See too
- List of the famous cemeteries
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