- St. Marx Cemetery
St. Marx Cemetery (Sankt Marxer Friedhof) is a
cemetery in theLandstraße district ofVienna , used from1784 until1874 . It was named after a nearbyalmshouse . The cemetery was opened in response to a decree by Emperor Joseph II that forbade further burials in cemeteries within the outer walls of the city of Vienna. He also ordered that bodies should be buried unembalmed and without coffins in mass graves. Thus the common assumption that Mozart's grave (see below) was unmarked because he was too poor is false. His burial in1791 after a funeral in theStephansdom simply followed the regulations of the day.It includes the graves of
*Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
*Josef Strauss
*Anton Diabelli
*Count Philipp von Cobenzl
*Georg Donner
*Alexander Ypsilanti
*Franz Pfeiffer
*Baron Ernst Von Feuchtersleben
*Louis Montoyer The most famous is
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . However, 17 years after his death, his widow couldn't find his grave; neither couldVincent Novello in1829 . In1855 a gravestone was erected at what was presumed to be the correct spot. Later the stone was transferred to the group of famous musician graves atZentralfriedhof . A cemetery worker replaced it with a memorial tablet, which was again expanded by several contributors.The rest of the cemetery decayed. It was restored, put under
historic preservation and opened to the public in1937 .External links
* [http://www.wien.gv.at/ma42/parks/stmarx1.htm History, along with a list of graves] (in German)
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