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Burials take place in the Imperial Crypt to this day: the last Austrian empress, Zita, was buried here in 1989. And on 16 July 2011, her eldest son, the former Crown Prince and European politician, Otto Habsburg, was laid to rest here alongside his wife, Regina. Information about tickets and guided tours of the Capuchin Crypt
- Tegetthoffstraße 2, Vienna, 1010
- 01 512685388
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.
The Imperial Crypt ( German: Kaisergruft ), also called the Capuchin Crypt ( Kapuzinergruft ), is a burial chamber beneath the Capuchin Church and monastery in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1618 and dedicated in 1632, and located on the Neuer Markt square of the Innere Stadt, near the Hofburg Palace.
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.
Since 1876, Muslims have been buried at Vienna's Zentralfriedhof. The dead are buried according to Austrian law, in a coffin, in contrast to the Islamic ritual practice: burial in a shroud. The opening of the new Islamic cemetery of the Islamic Faith Community took place on 3 October 2008 in Liesing .
- 1863
- 2.4 square kilometres (590 acres)
- Over 330,000 graves
- Simmering, Vienna, Austria
This was the most recent burial of a royal Habsburg in the Imperial Crypt—following a centuries-old ceremony—where 145 other members of the House of Habsburg, among them many Holy Roman Emperors and Austrian Emperors, have been entombed since 1633.
Disapproved of by his father, he and his wife Sophie, shot with him in a car in a Sarajevo alley, are buried in Austria’s Artsetten castle. Inside the outer casings the lesser blue bloods rest in wood coffins lined with velvet and embellished with medallions.
