Zentralfriedhof
Situated in the district of Simmering, the Zentralfriedhof is the largest and most famous cemetery in Vienna.
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It was opened in 1874 and deceased notables such as Beethoven or Schubert were moved there in 1888.
Notables interred at the Zentralfriedhof include
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) composer
- Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906), mathematician/physician
- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), composer
- Anton Dominik Fernkorn (1813-1878), sculptor
- 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
- Curt Jurgens (1912-1982), actor
- Bruno Kreisky (1911-1990), statesman
- Joseph Lanner (1801-1843), composer
- Lotte Lehmann (1888-1976), opera singer
- Franz Werfel (1890-1945), writer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), composer
- Helen Odilon (1865-1939), actor
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967), film director
- Helmut Qualtinger (1928-1986), actor
- Karl Renner (1870-1950), statesman
- 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
- Fritz Wotruba (1907-1975), sculptor
