Gräberhain Währinger Schubertpark

From 1924 to 1925, the plan to transform the cemetery into a park was implemented. All that remained of the original graves after Karl Dirnhuber's redesign was a grove of graves enclosed by a wall with around forty historically valuable Biedermeier grave monuments. The former graves of Beethoven and Schubert were also preserved. The park was laid out in a geometric style and provided with a pavilion and a milk drinking hall. Other elements included a pergola, a fountain, walls, stairs and a ramp, as well as benches and candelabras. The park's fountain and the milk drinking hall no longer exist today. On the occasion of the opening of the park, an oak tree was planted by Mayor Karl Seitz, and in the Schubert year 1928, the Währinger Männergesangsverein planted a Schubert lime tree. Both trees are commemorated by memorial stones. In 2003, a car garage was built under the park and the park was redesigned in the course of the construction work, which initially met with strong protests. A new play and sports area was also installed. The park was reopened on 22 July 2005. Among the most famous personalities buried in the Währing local cemetery are composers and poets in particular. The gravestones of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert can still be found on the outer wall of the grave grove (see below). Close by, Alma von Goethe, a granddaughter of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, also found her resting place in 1844. Her remains were transferred to Weimar in June 1885. Johann Nestroy and Franz Grillparzer were also laid to rest in the Währing local cemetery. Franz Grillparzer was buried in a crypt on the south wall shortly before the cemetery was closed on 25 January 1872. As early as 1879 his body was transferred to the crypt of the Fröhlich family in the Hietzing cemetery. Nestroy finally found his final resting place in a grave of honour at the Vienna Central Cemetery. Other well-known personalities buried in the cemetery were the painter Johann Baptist Lampi, the sculptor Johann Martin Fischer, the violinist Franz Clement, the composer Ignaz von Seyfried, the singer Therese Rosenbaum (née Gassmann), the hygienist Johann Peter Frank and the court actress Antonie Adamberger. Tombs were also erected for numerous noble families, including Colloredo, Czartoryski, Gatterburg, Mailath, Hohenlohe, O'Donnell, Thun and Hohenstein, and Wickenburg.