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section. In the end, the groups reached an agreement resulting in the Catholic representatives opening the Central Cemetery with a small ceremony. Due to refraining from having a large public showing, the new cemetery was inaugurated almost unnoticed in the early morning of 31 October 1874 by Vienna
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Unlike many others, the Vienna Central Cemetery is not one that has evolved slowly. The decision to establish a new, big cemetery for Vienna came in 1863 when it became clear that – due to industrialization – the city's population would eventually increase to such an extent that the existing communal
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was built in 1917 and is still in use today. There were 58,804 Jewish burials in the new section as of 21 November 2007. Officials discovered the desecration of 43 Jewish graves in the two Jewish sections on 29 June 2012, allegedly as an anti-Semitic act – the stones and slabs were toppled or
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to avoid an escalation of the public controversy. The official opening of the Central Cemetery occurred the following day. The first burial was that of Jacob Zelzer, followed by 15 others that day. The grave of Jacob Zelzer still exists near the administration building at the cemetery wall.
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The cemetery spans 2.5 km (620 acres) with 330,000 gravesites containing around 3 million deceased, and up to 25 burials daily. It is also the second largest cemetery, after the 4 km (990 acres) of
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In its early incarnations, the cemetery was unpopular because of its distance from the city centre. This forced authorities to think of ways to make it more attractive: Hence honorary graves (
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credited the cemetery in his 1975 song "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" ("Long live the Central Cemetery"), marking with it the 100th anniversary of its opening.
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And less than 20% of the predominantly Catholic Viennese choose cremation, the rest hoping for a schöne Leiche (dialect: a schene Leich', a beautiful corpse).
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cemetery was established in the Vienna Central Cemetery in May 2005. An area of the Central Cemetery has been set aside for this purpose centered around a
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on external walls overnight in the cemetery's Jewish section. The entrance lobby to a ceremonial hall was burned for the first time since the 1938
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character of the new cemetery – the different faith groups being interred on the same ground – met with fierce resistance, especially in
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section on the east side is dedicated for the use of both confessions-parts of the Evangelical Protestant church in Austria, the
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on the cemetery ground which serves the purpose of a cemetery chapel. The church was consecrated by Pastor Rudolf Morally. The
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in 1907; it remains the most popular route to the cemetery by public transport. The "Zentralfriedhof" stop on the
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community received portions of Sections 68 B and 69 C, near Gate 3. Section 27 A contains the tombs of the
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cemeteries would prove to be insufficient. City leaders expected that Vienna, then capital of the large
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of the new cemetery – but gave a substantial amount of money toward the construction of a segregated
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infants, dead babies, and young children up to 110 centimetres (43 in) of height are interred.
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This argument became even more aggressive when the city announced that it did not want an official
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have been buried at Vienna's Zentralfriedhof. The dead are buried according to Austrian law, in a
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Private car traffic is allowed on the cemetery grounds every day of the year except 1 November (
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The cemetery is the scene of Harry Lime's fake and real funeral at the beginning and end of
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community have been buried in Section 30 A, just west of Gate 2, near the arcades. The
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burial grounds (Saint Lazarus chapel, 1894) and plots dedicated for the use of various
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Halb so groß wie Zürich – aber doppelt so lustig ist der Wiener Zentralfriedhof!
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in Austria celebrated the dedication of a hectare-sized plot set apart for the
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in the world by number of interred, and is the most well-known cemetery among
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A bird's-eye view of Vienna Central Cemetery, with Vienna in the background
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Opposite the cemetery's main gate, across Simmeringer Hauptstrasse, is the
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opened in Section 26, on 5 March 2009, for interments of the Institute of
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Although the older of the two, established in 1863, was destroyed by the
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capital, but on the southern outskirts, in the outer city district of
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deceased in the Vienna Central Cemetery, on 19 September 2009.
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On 1 November 2023, unidentified vandals set a fire and sprayed
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to the Central Cemetery, in 1901 and it was renumbered as "71"
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and the altar on the apse of the church is ornamented with a
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community is near Gate 3 in Section 38 as are members of the
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Protestant section with the cemetery church 'Heilandskirche'
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is the central church of the cemetery. It used to be called
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Hysni Curri, the voice that calls to repose in the homeland
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joke has it that the Central Cemetery is "half the size of
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style was built in 1908–1910 by Max Hegele. The crypt of
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civil name Johann (Hans) Hölzel (1957–1998), rock singer
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and for the people who donated their bodies to science.
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Interred in the Central Cemetery are notables such as
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Central Cemetery (disambiguation)
Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde

St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery Church
Simmering
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48°09′09″N 16°26′24″E / 48.15250°N 16.44000°E / 48.15250; 16.44000
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