Kahlenberg cemetery
The Kahlenberger Friedhof , also called Josefsdorfer Friedhof , is a small cemetery located on the southern slope of the Kahlenberg in Vienna .
The cemetery was laid out below the Josefsdorf on Kahlenberg Street and inaugurated on December 21, 1783. It is located in the middle of the Vienna Woods and includes a handful of graves with monuments mainly from the Biedermeier period . Charles Joseph de Ligne , his wife and granddaughter , among others , as well as Karoline Traunwieser, who was considered the most beautiful Viennese at the time of the Congress of Vienna and died on March 8, 1815 at the age of only 21, of pulmonary consumption are buried here .
The monks of the Order of the Resurrectionists , who look after the church on the Kahlenberg, bury their deceased confreres here today . The cemetery has also been used for natural burials since 2019.
The most prominent personality who was buried in the Kahlenberg cemetery in modern times is Prelate Leopold Ungar .
See also
literature
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 414f.
- Christopher Dietz: The famous graves of Vienna. Falco, Klimt, Kraus, Moser, Mozart, Qualtinger, Schiele, Schubert, Strauss and others. v. a. Perlen-Reihe , Vienna 2000. ISBN 3-85223-452-2 .
Web links
- Website about the Kahlenberger Friedhof
- A cemetery like in a fairy tale (Wiener Zeitung, November 2, 2001)
Individual evidence
- ^ Felix Czeike: Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 3: Ha-La. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 382.
- ↑ Kahlenberg Forest Cemetery
Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 26 " N , 16 ° 19 ′ 58.4" E