Vienna’s Central Cemetery

Interred in the Central Cemetery are notable composers such as Beethoven and Strauss, who were moved there in 1888. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was given an honorary monument in Group 32a, but his actual grave is in an unknown location at the Cemetery of St. Marx.

A stroll through Vienna’s Central Cemetery is a melancholy glimpse into the past and into Vienna’s outstanding heritage of culture and music spanning centuries as well as religions. Most notable is that the Central Cemetery has a Catholic section, a Protestant cemetery, a small Russian Orthodox burial area, and two Jewish cemeteries.

Tramway number 71 is the most popular and convenient route from the city center to the main gates of the cemetery using public transportation. Among the Viennese, a popular euphemism for a death is that the deceased person "has taken the 71„