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- Austria Empire under the Habsburg monarchy from 1804 until 1918. All emperors, with the exception of Charles I, were buried in the Imperial Crypt (Kaisergruft), at the Capuchin Church, in Vienna. Their hearts are buried in the Herzgruft (Crypt of the Hearts) at the St. Augustine Church at the Imperial Palace, in Vienna.
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the Imperial Crypt below the Capuchin Church and Monastery in Vienna, where three of the four emperors of Austria have been buried (Charles I was buried on Madeira, his last exile). Austrian Empire [ edit ]
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When Karl I, the last Emperor of Austria, died in 1922, he was not allowed to be buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna, and instead was buried at the Church of Our Lady of Monte on the island of Madeira in Portugal.
Emperors buried here: Emperor Matthias; Emperor Ferdinand III; Emperor Leopold I; Emperor Joseph I; Emperor Charles VI; Emperor Francis I Stephen, husband of Maria Theresa; Emperor Joseph II; Emperor Leopold II; Emperor Francis II; Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria; Emperor Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico; Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria; Empresses ...
The Habsburgs are buried near Hofburg Palace in a crypt at a Capuchin church where there is still a cloister. The crypt is in the care of the monks from the cloister. Unlike any of the other burial sites I’ve visited, the church is small and is on a street with traffic, shops, and stores, restaurants, and cafes.
Burials still take place in the Imperial Crypt to this day. The last Empress of Austria-Hungary, Zita, was buried here in 1989, and in 2011 her eldest son, former Crown Prince and European politician, Otto Habsburg, was also laid to rest here alongside his wife, Regina.
However much Vienna's imperial past may be tangible throughout the entire city, it is only in the Imperial Crypt (Kaisergruft) that one truly gets up close to the Habsburgs. The Kapuzinergruft (or Kaisergruft, the Imperial Crypt) on the Neuer Markt near the Hofburg has been the family burial place of the Habsburgs since 1617.
Empress Anna the wife of Emperor Matthias wanted his wife the Empress Anna to be interred in a permanent tomb within the old city walls of Vienna, with the emperor following beloved into the crypt. Today 146 are buried in the crypt, including 12 emperors, 19 empresses and queens, the rest family members.
