The Vienna Central Cemetery
was built in the late XIX
century according to the plans
of the Frankfurt landscape architects Kari Jonas Mylius
and Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli who were awarded for their project "per angusta ad augusta" (from dire to sublime).
The layout was for a multi-confessional graveyard.
A church dedicated to
St Charles Borromeo was then built as designed by Max Hegele, and it opened in 1911.
Vienna is a city of music since time immemorial, and the
municipality expressed gratitude to composers by granting them monumental tombs.

To mention but a few:
Antonio Salieri, Johann Strauss the older, Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss the younger, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van
Beethoven, Arnold Schonberg.
Vienna is also a city of
architects (Adolf Loos and
Josef Hoffmann are buried here), writers such as Karl Kraus,
politicians like Julius Raab, who
as chancellor signed the state
treaty in 1955, his popular predecessor Leopold Figl
who was later to become the
Austrian minister of foreign
affairs ("Austria is free"),
Bruno Kreisky (the Sun King),
Viktor Adler, Otto Bauer: all
of them, and many more,
have been laid to rest in graves
of honour at the central cemetery.