And Mozart WeptAll Souls at St. Marx Cemetery

All Souls Day
St Marx Cemetery


All day long, fog was falling from the sky,
grey light on the gravesites in the narrower lanes


Somehow fitting for a day of remembrance
of those we have loved and lost


No bird song anywhere,
the sun and her yellow whip
beaten by dense fog


Yellow leaves, disarmed,
by the dreary light

The third image depicts the grave of Josef Madersperger
(1768-1850), inventor of the sewing machine .
the fourth one is a picture of the Mozart Memorial

The Biedermeier era cemetery of St. Marx
was closed as a burial ground 140 years ago, in 1874 -
it is open to the public throughout the year

Photographed in the afternoon
of All Souls Day, 2 November 2014
Images and Text © by MerisiLinks:
-> Joseph Madersperger - The Inventor of the Mechanical Sewing Hand
by Gloria Kaiser at the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota
-> Merisi's visits to Mozart's final resting place
-> Homepage of the City of Vienna: Cemetery of St. Marx with Mozart´s grave