Zentralfriedhof - VII

 

Also located at the cemetery is small but interesting museum filled with all sorts of things associated with death, and burial.

There are several displays of the liveries that the hearse driver and associated staff would wear. We could also see the hearse and some of the mourning clothes.

The displays were dimly lit (so these images are noisier that most you see here).

There are videos of royal funerals along with displays of royal finery.

And now we take a pause to revisit the cemetery outside again. My apologies. Today my computer wants to upload the images in some strange order (reverse I think). After this brief interlude, there will be more artifacts from the museum. Be patient. It is much too complicated to argue with the computer and rearrange the images.

Here is the gravestone of Johann Wilhelm Klein, a pioneer in the education of the blind.

A well respected military man, Josef Smola.

He was not, however, only a commander, but also an engineer and an author of many innovations in the artillery. One of the famous ones was, for example, wall gun-mounting in 1807.

He was married to Mary Smola, Baroness of Häring (1771–1807). His two sons Josef von Smola Jr. and Karl von Smola were also officers. The last living descendants being Miloslav von Smola (* 29 August 1949 in Prague) and Miloslav von Smola (* 6 January 1986 in Prague), both currently living in the Czech Republic.

This high relief image memorializes Eugenie Kenyon who was a benefactress who spent a large portion of here fortune to endow the Eugenie Kenyon Foundation and found the Sophienspital (a hospital).