Kapuzinerkirche
The Kapuzinerkirche—officially the Church of Saint Mary of the Angels, or *Kirche zur Heiligen Maria von den Engeln*—is Baroque Vienna’s most potent link to the Habsburg dynasty’s memory. The church’s story begins with the Capuchin brothers, who had been sent in the Counter-Reformation to Prague, stopping in Vienna around 1599 under the leadership of Lawrence of Brindisi. Anna of Tyrol, consort of Holy Roman Emperor Matthias of Habsburg, donated the church by will, and construction finally finished in 1632 under Matthias’s successor, Ferdinand II, after delays caused by the Thirty Years’ War. What makes this church globally significant is what lies beneath it: the Imperial Crypt (*Kaisergruft*), the principal burial site for the House of Habsburg since 1633. Today it is part of the Capuchin Monastery, and it connects imperial policy and personal devotion through a single sacred space. …
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