Zentralfriedhof Vienna

Also known as Zentralfriedhof

When Beethoven and Schubert were exhumed in 1888 and reburied side by side in the Vienna Zentralfriedhof's honorary section, someone had already placed a Mozart memorial nearby. Mozart's actual grave is unmarked at the St. Marx cemetery across the city; the Zentralfriedhof holds a cenotaph, a symbolic monument without a body.

Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof is Europe’s second-largest cemetery, with over three million burials across 2.5 square kilometers in the 11th district. The composers’ honorary section in Group 32A is the main reason most visitors come: Beethoven and Schubert buried side by side, Brahms a few meters away, Johann Strauss II nearby, Falco further down, and a Mozart memorial that is a cenotaph only since Mozart’s actual grave is unmarked at the St. Marx cemetery across the city. All of this is free, accessible by tram 71 from the center (terminus at the main gate), and set within a park large enough to absorb thousands of visitors without feeling crowded. The Jugendstil Karl Borromaeus church at the cemetery’s center is a further reason to come. Open daily from March to October 7:00-18:00. Enter at Gate 2 for the most direct route to Group 32A.