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Vienna Central Cemetery

Wiener Zentralfriedhof

The Vienna Central Cemetery (Wiener Zentralfriedhof) is a cemetery for people of all religions on Simmeringer Hauptstraße in Vienna's Simmering district, opened in 1874 and administered by Friedhöfe Wien GmbH.

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The Vienna Central Cemetery is a working cemetery in Simmering, Vienna's 11th district, administered by Friedhöfe Wien GmbH, which describes it as a resting place for people of all religions and gives its area as 2.4 square kilometres with about 330,000 grave sites. Friedhöfe Wien's page (in German) says it was planned around 1870 by the garden architects Karl Jonas Mylius and Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli, consecrated on 30 October 1874 and opened on 1 November 1874, that in 1881 the city council decided to dedicate graves there to famous people, and that the cemetery church of St Charles Borromeo was built from 1907 to 1910 to designs by Max Hegele. It names Gate 2 at Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234 as the main entrance and info point. The map point is the middle of the cemetery area, not a gate.

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Vienna (Wien) is Austria's federal capital and, as the City of Vienna's own administration page puts it, also one of the country's federal provinces. XTOUR maps palaces, museums and churches inside the city, among them Schönbrunn Palace, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Belvedere and St. Stephen's Cathedral; Klosterneuburg, a separate municipality in Lower Austria, is not part of the city.

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