Zentralfriedhof // Some photographic impressions

By grenz
March 28th, 2005 @ 4:13 PM History

The Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetary) is the largest and most famous cemetery among Vienna’s nearly 50 cemeteries. Opened in 1874, this enormous cemetery spans 2.4 square kilometers. It is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe. 3.3 million people have been buried here during the last 128 years. In keeping with the Viennese affinity for stylish burials, the cemetery contains a wide range of funerary monuments varying from the simple to the extravagant. The Zentralfriedhof has a special section (the so called Ehrengr

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7 Comments so far

  1. mrks (unregistered) on March 28th, 2005 @ 7:06 pm

    … my favourite zentralfriedhof-picture …

  2. nex (unregistered) on March 30th, 2005 @ 8:41 am

    graves and tombstones are so 18th century. why can’t we set up nice little web pages for the deceased and use the space for something more worthwhile than worm farming?

  3. crackerjack (unregistered) on March 30th, 2005 @ 2:16 pm

    two reasons: because dead bodies are not virtual but real and they take up space. And because people like to have special places for their dead. Real places where they can go to, pray and mourn and remember. To honor loved one’s that have died.

    And actually, people are doing both: digging graves and setting up websites for their dead.

  4. nex (unregistered) on March 31st, 2005 @ 4:41 am

    dead bodies are not virtual but real and they take up space.

    but they don’t have to take up such a significant amount of space. not if you burn them or feed them to pigs.

    You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes.

    btw, i just noticed the blogware here strips title attributes out of hyperlinks … *annoyometer goes up another notch*

  5. crackerjack (unregistered) on March 31st, 2005 @ 9:02 am

    yeah, Alan Ford! Great quote.

    But that is not exactly “honoring the dead”, right?

  6. nex (unregistered) on March 31st, 2005 @ 10:17 pm

    yes, it’s alan ford, who played the “horrible cunt” who said this in the movie ’snatch’. which is what i put in the link title, before MT stripped it out again.

    i was always bad at honoring-the-dead in school. one year i was even negative; i did a re-exam at the start of the next term but hadn’t really learned much because i was able to rely on the aufstiegsklausel (advancement clause?) anyway. so there was this little committee of my honoring-the-dead teacher, two more honoring-the-dead teachers from other schools, and the school’s principal. from the very start i failed to provide them with the correct answers to their questions and it was over in a matter of minutes. when i mentioned how technically a rotting corpse left unattended in the backyard isn’t a health risk (as opposed to one put half a metre under the ground), they sent me home and my negative mark stuck. my teacher believed it was something personal and never found out how much i really respected him. (i mean, he was old, but not dead yet.)

  7. crackerjack (unregistered) on April 1st, 2005 @ 8:27 am

    Thank you nex, you just put a big smile on my face.


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