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Lunchtime Photo

It looks to me like the comet is getting fainter every night, so I guess I've done all the comet photography I'm going to do.

This is the Borromeo Church, a Jugendstil (art nouveau) classic at the center of the Zentralfriedhof, the Vienna Central Cemetery. The cemetery is the final resting place of Beethoven, among others, and also home to a rare European hamster. It's one of the world's largest at 3 million interred, and is divided into separate sections for Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. More about that later.

May 20, 2024 — Vienna, Austria

4 thoughts on “Lunchtime Photo

  1. emjayay

    Otherwise known as Friedhofskirche zum Heiligen Karl Borromäus. Somehow I didn't know about it or I would have checked it out. Surely you went to the
    The Secession Building?

  2. jte21

    It was originally dedicated in memory of Vienna's infamously antisemitic (but hugely beloved) populist mayor Dr. Karl Lueger (d. 1910). His crypt is still in there, but a few years ago after a major renovation, it was re-christened as the Karl Borromeo church (also the patronage of the baroque Karlskirche in central Vienna).

    Vienna has spent the last decade or so gradually de-Luegerizing numerous monuments, streets, parks, and plazas throughout the city.

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