On a rainy spring day, our CzechAut Team visited Vienna´s best-known cemetery.
It was
established in 1863. Currently, there are around 300.000 graves on an area of
2.5 km2.
Vienna is a city of music and that is the reason why personalities like
Ludwig van
Beethoven, Franz Schubert or Falco are buried
here. Because of the size of the cemetery, which features 80 km of roads and
paths, you can use a public cemetery bus which has several stops.
Zentralfriedhof
also has 3 main entrances and 3 funeral halls.
Zentralfriedhof
in numbers:
Area 2
Number of graves:
300.000
3.000.000
deceased
4.000 graves
cleared per year
3 funeral halls
80 km of roads
and paths
Memorial of those, who donated their body to the science
This is the memorial of dead people who donated their bodies to the science. The atmosphere there was frightening but also peaceful. In a way it was an interesting experience for us.
As we were thinking
about donating a body to the science, we came to a few resolutions. Our
opinions were quite different from each other. David thinks that donating your
body to science is a good idea, while Alina thinks that the body should be buried
properly.
If you are curious you can read more about
donating the body to the science at: www.sciencecare.com
Der Park der Ruhe und Kraft - the Park of peace and energy |
1. Section
Symbol: circle
Element: earth
Energy: re- creation
2. Section
Symbol: labyrinth
Element: air
Energy: healing
3. Section
Symbol: square
Element: water
Energy: collecting
4. Section
Symbol: circle
Element: earth
Energy: change
5. Section
Symbol: triangle
Element: fire
Energy: development
6. Section
Symbol: Battle Axe
Energy: change
Museum
With our blog crew we also visited this park,
which is located in the central cemetery in Vienna. This place should fill us
with energy and inner strength. At the beginning, we didn’t believe that it
works, but as soon as we got out of there, we felt relaxed and kind of
peaceful. We didn’t even notice how bad the weather was at that day. If you
want to escape from the sad atmosphere that cemetery radiates, you should
definitely visit this place. Down below you can see some pictures we made
there.
This cemetary is so enormous it even has a bus line with 20 stops taking
those of us for whom walking is a burden to the resting places of the dearly
departed.
To add
education to gravitas you can visit the cemetary´s own funeral museum. Its
exhibits take you through centuries of buryial rites and instruments, like this
one here. What is it you ask? A heart-stabbing dagger of course! A reminder of
the mass hysteria of the 19th century when people feared nothing more than
being buried alive.
Waldfriedhof
The ”Waldfriedhof”
of the central cemetery is an almost natural forest besides the fact that every
tree grows on the ashes of our deceased loved ones. The park symbolizes the
circle of life and it seems to be the alternative to coffins and gravestone and
gives some people the feeling that even after their death there is something growing
beyond them.
But don´t
worry about not finding the tree of your loved one, there are memorial trees at
the south-east entrance.
