Vienna Central Cemetery
Situated in the district of Simmering, Simmeringer Hauptstraße 230-244, Vienna 1110, Austria, the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) is the largest and most famous cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries.
Opened in 1874, this enormous cemetery spans 2.4 square kilometres with 3.3 million interred here. It is also one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.
The church in the centre of the cemetery is named Dr. Karl Lueger-Gedächtniskirche. In addition to the Catholic section, there is a Protestant cemetery, a small Russian Orthodox burial area, and two Jewish cemeteries. Although the older of the two, established in 1863, was destroyed by the Nazis during Kristallnacht, around 60,000 graves still remain intact. Prominent burials here include those of the Rothschild family and that of the author Arthur Schnitzler. The second Jewish cemetery was built in 1917 and is still in use today.
Also interred in the Zentralfriedhof are notables such as Beethoven or Schubert who were moved there in 1888.
The musician Wolfgang Ambros honours the Zentralfriedhof in his song "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" ("Long live the Zentralfriedhof") in 1975.
Notables interred at the Zentralfriedhof (selection)
- Rudolf Ritter von Alt (1812-1905), painter
- Leon Askin (1907–2005), actor
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), composer
- Theodor Billroth, surgeon
- Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), physicist/mathematician
- Maxi Böhm (1916–1982), actor
- Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), composer
- Carl Czerny (1791–1857), piano teacher and composer
- Anton Dominik Fernkorn (1813–1878), sculptor
- Leopold Figl (1902–1965), statesman
- Carl Ritter von Ghega (1802–1860), engineer
- Alexander Girardi (1850–1918), actor
- Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), composer
- Karl Goldmark (1830–1915), composer
- Theophilos von Hansen (1813–1891), architect
- Johann Ritter von Herbeck (1831–1877), composer
- Falco aka Johann (Hans) Hoelzel (1957-1998), rock singer
- Curd Jürgens (1912–1982), actor
- Thomas Klestil (1932–2004), the president of Austria (1992-2004)
- Bruno Kreisky (1911–1990), statesman
- Karl Kraus (1874–1936), writer
- Joseph Lanner (1801–1843), composer
- Lotte Lehmann (1888–1976), opera singer
- Theo Lingen (1903–1978), actor/director
- Guido von List (1848–1919) 19th-century mystic Germanic and Runic revivalist
- Adolf Loos (1870–1933), architect
- Karl Lueger (1844–1910), politician
- Hans Moser (1880–1964), actor
- Siegfried Marcus (1831–1898), automobile pioneer
- Karl Eugen Neumann (1865–1915), European pioneer of Buddhism
- Walter Nowotny (1920–1944), World War II Luftwaffe pilot
- Helen Odilon (1865–1939), actor
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885–1967), film director
- Paula von Preradović (1887–1951), writer
- Helmut Qualtinger (1928–1986), actor
- Julius Raab (1891–1964), statesman
- Karl Renner (1870–1950), statesman
- Albert Salomon von Rothschild (1844-1911), financier
- Nathaniel Mayer Anselm von Rothschild (1836-1905), financier
- Léonie Rysanek (1926–1998), opera singer
- Antonio Salieri (1750–1825), composer
- Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), writer
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828), composer
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000), architect
- Alma Seidler (1899–1977), actress
- Robert Stolz (1880–1975), composer
- Eduard Strauss (1835–1916), composer
- Johann Strauss I (1804–1849), composer
- Johann Strauss II (1825–1899), composer
- Josef Strauss (1827–1870), composer
- Franz von Suppé (1819–1895), composer
- Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979), writer
- Franz Werfel (1890–1945), poet
- Anton Wildgans (1881–1932), poet
- Hugo Wolf (1860–1903), composer
- Fritz Wotruba (1907–1975), sculptor