St. Marx Cemetery in Autumn LightAutumn in Vienna

St. Marx Cemetery
The beautiful Biedermeier cemetery
was left to decay after
its closing as a burial ground in 1874


It fell into a long Sleeping Beauty slumber.
The tomb stones and memorials started crumbling,
bushes and trees grew into impenetrable thickets.
At one point, in the 1920s, the city even contemplated
tearing down the tombs and turning the whole area into a park


Thanks to the efforts of historian Hans Pemmer,
and due to the fact that St. Marx holds the mortal remains
of one of Vienna's most famous citizens, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
the cemetery was spared destruction.
It was renovated and opened to the public again in 1937

Photographed in the afternoon
of All Souls Day, 2 November 2014
Images and Text © by Merisi
Nikon 300s, 50mm lens
Link:
-> Homepage of the City of Vienna: Cemetery of St. Marx with Mozart´s grave