St. Marx Cemetery

Sankt Marxer Friedhof
Sankt Marxer Friedhof
	The memorial of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Details
Established	1784
Location	Landstraße, Vienna
Country	Austria
Type	Public (closed)
Size	?
No. of graves	?

St. Marx Cemetery (Sankt Marxer Friedhof) is a cemetery in the Landstraße district of Vienna, used from 1784 until 1874. It contains the unmarked grave of the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

History

The cemetery was named after a nearby

mass graves of plague times. There were no mass graves in late 18th-century Vienna.^[1]

Thus the common assumption that Mozart's grave was unmarked because he was too poor is false. His burial in 1791 after a funeral in the

Stephansdom

simply followed the regulations of the day.

Notable interments

It includes the graves of:

Mozart

The most famous person to be buried in the St. Marx Cemetery is

Zentralfriedhof

. At St. Marx Cemetery, a worker replaced the gravestone with a memorial tablet, which was again expanded by several contributors. The memorial known today was refurbished by Viennese sculptor Florian Josephu-Drouot in 1950.

After closing

Over the years, the rest of the cemetery decayed. In the 20th century it was restored, put under historic preservation status, and opened to the public in 1937.