Nov 29 2009
Second Largest Cemetery in Europe - Zentralfriedhof
If you like history and classical music and accidentally find yourself in Austria, you would, probably, want to visit the burial plots of such famous composers as Beethoven, Brahms, Gluck and Strauss. The good thing is you won’t have to go through various places as their burial plots are located located in one and the same cemetery named Zentralfriedhof.
This largest and most famous Austrian cemetery is situated in Vienna and spans 2.4 square kilometers. Zentralfriedhof opened in 1874. It is the second largest European cemetery after Hamburg’s Ohlsdorf Cemetery which spans over 4 square kilometers in Germany. However, as of today Zentralfriedhof has almost 3,5 million dead people buried there, which makes it the the first one in Europe because it is largest by number of interred people.
Zentralfriedhof consists of Catholic, Protestant, Russian Orthodox and Jewish cemeteries. It is a part of European cultural heritage. Among upright headstones, mausoleums, big and small memorial monuments, one can find grave markers of famous architects, aviation pioneers, poets and writers, actors and opera singers. The video presents the cemetery with the tribute to famous rock singer Falco from the 80s who was also buried here.
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