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Zita of Bourbon-Parma, the wife of Emperor Karl (the last emperor), two of her sons Otto and Carl Ludwig, along with Otto’s wife Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen and Carl Ludwig’s wife Princesse Yolande de Ligne are buried here. Yolande de Ligne died in 2023 so her tomb is not in these photos taken in 2011.
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 Imperial Crypt of the Habsburg family, known in German as the Kaisergruft, or Kapuzinergruft (Capuchin Crypt), lies beneath the Capuchin Church and monastery in Vienna, Austria. The crypt contains the remains of 150 people. The oldest tombs are those of Empress Anna (1585-1618) and Emperor Matthias (1557-1619).
Oct 13, 2022 · Were all emperors buried here? The Capuchin crypt is located under the Capuchin church in the middle of the city on Neuer Markt. It has been looked after by the Capuchin friars for 400 years.
The Habsburgs, who were Holy Roman Emperors for much of the HRE's existence and rulers of the Austrian Empire, had a unique burial tradition in which their dead were entombed in 3 parts: the body was entombed in the Imperial Crypt. the heart was removed and buried in a silver urn in the Herzgruft (Heart-crypt)
Until the dissolution of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy, the princes were buried in Vranov nearby Brno close to their residences in Lednice and Valtice. Afterwards, a new burial site was erected in the territory of the principality.
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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.
