Zentralfriedhof - Vienna Central Cemetery

Austrians are fascinated and fixated on death. The way most of them complain you often think they'd actually prefer to be dead. I suppose that was a bit harsh... but I've also been wanting to get to Zentralfriedhof for ages. I was determined to do so while it was still autumn and I could get some eery looking photos. It's an amazing cemetery and well worth the visit. The museum is the second largest in Europe in terms of area and the largest in terms of people buried (over 3million). The jewish section is definitely the most interesting. Due to the fact there are very few jews left in the area they are in a terrible state and would make for the perfect setting for a horror film...

There is also a very long list of famous people buried here (taken from WIkipedia):

• Rudolf Ritter von Alt (1812-1905), painter
• Leon Askin (1907�"2005), actor
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770�"1827), composer
• Theodor Billroth (1829�"1894), surgeon
• Ludwig Boltzmann (1844�"1906), physicist/mathematician
• Max Böhm (1916�"1982), actor
• Johannes Brahms (1833�"1897), composer
• Ignaz Brüll (1846�"1907), composer
• Carl Czerny (1791�"1857), piano teacher and composer
• Anton Dominik Fernkorn (1813�"1878), sculptor
• Leopold Figl (1902�"1965), statesman
• Carl Ritter von Ghega (1802�"1860), engineer
• Alexander Girardi (1850�"1918), actor
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714�"1787), composer
• Karl Goldmark (1830�"1915), composer
• Theophil Freiherr von Hansen (1813�"1891), architect
• Johann Ritter von Herbeck (1831�"1877), composer
• Falco aka Johann (Hans) Hoelzel (1957-1998), rock singer
• Curd Jürgens (1912�"1982), actor
• Thomas Klestil (1932�"2004), the president of Austria (1992-2004)
• Bruno Kreisky (1911�"1990), statesman
• Karl Kraus (1874�"1936), writer
• Josef Lanner (1801�"1843), composer
• Lotte Lehmann (1888�"1976), opera singer
• György Ligeti (1923�"2006), composer
• Theo Lingen (1903�"1978), actor/director
• Guido von List (1848�"1919) 19th-century mystic Germanic and Runic revivalist
• Adolf Loos (1870�"1933), architect
• Karl Lueger (1844�"1910), politician
• Hans Moser (1880�"1964), actor
• Siegfried Marcus (1831�"1898), automobile pioneer
• Karl Millöcker (1842�"1899), composer
• Karl Eugen Neumann (1865�"1915), European pioneer of Buddhism
• Walter Nowotny (1920�"1944), World War II Luftwaffe pilot
• Helen Odilon (1865�"1939), actor
• Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885�"1967), film director
• Clemens von Pirquet (1874�"1929), scientist and pediatrician
• Paula von Preradović (1887�"1951), writer
• Helmut Qualtinger (1928�"1986), actor
• Julius Raab (1891�"1964), statesman
• Geli Raubal (1908�"1931), Hitler's niece and rumoured lover
• Karl Renner (1870�"1950), statesman
• Albert Salomon von Rothschild (1844-1911), financier
• Nathaniel Mayer Anselm von Rothschild (1836-1905), financier
• Léonie Rysanek (1926�"1998), opera singer
• Antonio Salieri (1750�"1825), composer
• Franz Schmidt (1874 �" 1939), composer
• Arthur Schnitzler (1862�"1931), writer
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874�"1951), composer
• Franz Schubert (1797�"1828), composer
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897�"2000), architect
• Alma Seidler (1899�"1977), actress
• Robert Stolz (1880�"1975), composer
• Eduard Strauss (1835�"1916), composer
• Johann Strauss I (1804�"1849), composer
• Johann Strauss II (1825�"1899), composer
• Josef Strauss (1827�"1870), composer
• Franz von Suppé (1819�"1895), composer
• Friedrich Torberg (1908�"1979), writer
• Kurt Waldheim (1918�"2007), the Austrian president, UN Secretary-General
• Franz Werfel (1890�"1945), poet
• Anton Wildgans (1881�"1932), poet
• Hugo Wolf (1860�"1903), composer
• Fritz Wotruba (1907�"1975), sculptor
• Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871�"1942), composer