The Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) is situated in the district of Simmering, Simmeringer Hauptstraße 230-244, Vienna 1110, Austria, and is the largest and most famous cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries. Opened in 1874, this enormous cemetery spans 2.4 square kilometres with 3.3 million interred here. It is also second largest cemetery, after Hamburg (more than 4 sq km), by area and largest by number of interred in Europe. Interred in the Zentralfriedhof are notables such as Beethoven and Schubert who were moved there in 1888. The church in the centre of the cemetery is named Dr. Karl Lueger-Gedächtniskirche. In addition to the Catholic section, there is a Protestant cemetery, a small Russian Orthodox burial area, and two Jewish cemeteries. Although the older of the two, established in 1863, was destroyed by the Nazis during Kristallnacht, around 60,000 graves still remain intact. Prominent burials here include those of the Rothschild family and that of the author Arthur Schnitzler. The second Jewish cemetery was built in 1917 and is still in use today. The musician Wolfgang Ambros honours the Zentralfriedhof in his song "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" ("Long live the Zentralfriedhof") in 1975.
Notables interred at the Zentralfriedhof (selection)
- 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
- Matthias Sindelar (1903–1939), footballer
- 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
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