Zentralfriedhof - X

As we come to the end of our tour of the Central Cemetery, we find several imposing gravestones.

Zentralfriedhof - IX

I find that these grave sites that are covered with old vines and lots of ferns to be very much in the spirit of a 19th century cemetery. At least the spirit that we have from the literature of the age.

Zentralfriedhof - VIII

Now, back to the museum....Here is a scene that was often seen at a 19th century funeral.

Zentralfriedhof - VII

 

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

Zentralfriedhof - VI

Away from the more frequently visited areas, we find markers that are in need of some maintenance. However, the lush vegetation does give it a quality that the more neatly tended graves don't have.

Zentralfriedhof - V

 

The cemetery is also home to a modern, but quite splendid church, the Friedhofskirche.

Zentralfriedhof - IV

 

I cannot tell you who this marker is meant to remember. I was so jarred by the appearance of a naked woman sitting on the knees of a skeleton facing the deceased that I failed to note the resident. Many body parts of distorted and misshapen. This is a really strange gravestone.

Zentralfriedhof - III - Moving Toward the Musicians

This stone appears to have a fairy along with a cherub to admire and mourn the resident.

Zentralfriedhof - II

This cemetery is filled with finely crafted statuary of young women mourning the loss of family.

Zentralfriedhof

One of our best outings in Vienna took to the the Zentralfriedhof, the central cemetery. This place plays a role for Vienna similar to the magnificent seven cemeteries in London but was later. It was opened on All Saint's Day in 1874.