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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. Since 1633, the Imperial Crypt serves ...
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.
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. One cafe is directly across from it.
Karl and Zita’s son Otto von Habsburg, the last Crown Prince of Austria, requested that his heart be buried in the crypt of the Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma in Hungary. His body was interred in the Imperial Crypt at the Capuchin Church.
Feb 1, 2024 · Austria and Vienna are not short of a few famous local (and adopted) sons and daughters, and a good selection of them found their last resting place in the Zentralfriedhof: Vienna’s main cemetery. Home to Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Strauss, Schoenberg, Salieri, and others. Beautifully-kept graves and memorials in an expansive park-like cemetery.
In Vienna there was a custom of separate burials for monarchs, princes, dukes and higher-ranking nobles. That is why the corpses of the Habsburgs are in the Capuchin crypt, the entrails in the crypt of St. Stephen's Cathedral and the hearts in the Herzlggräbt in the Augustinian Church.
Mar 4, 2024 · Visiting Vienna. The old city walls and King Richard. Some argue that Vienna’s city walls (the Stadtmauer) were really built during the Third Crusade at the 1191 siege of Acre in what is now Israel. Oh, yes, there’s a story to tell… First city walls date back over 800 years. City fortifications partly destroyed by Napoleon.
