Vienna Central Cemetery
Vienna Central Cemetery, or *Wiener Zentralfriedhof*, is best known not for a single landmark, but for scale: it ranks among the largest cemeteries in the world by the number of people interred, and it serves as the best-known of Vienna’s nearly 50 burial grounds. Its story begins with a planning decision made in 1863, when industrialisation made it clear that existing communal cemeteries would eventually run short. In 1869, the city council chose a flat site in Simmering on Vienna’s southern outskirts, and the cemetery was designed in 1870 by Frankfurt landscape architects Karl Jonas Mylius and Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli. It opened on All Saints’ Day in 1874. What sets this place apart is how it handles belief. …
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