Your Second Chance to get at least one Gotchi!

Once again – my job allowed me to explore Helsinki for a few days. Actually it was a horrible trip to get there. I got ill before the flight and that made my time in the plane kinda a nightmare.

Nevertheless I found some free time to get around and take some pictures.

The whole set can be found on Flickr

St. Marx Cemetery (Sankt Marxer Friedhof) is a cemetery in the Landstraße district of Vienna, used from 1784 until 1874. It was named after a nearby almshouse. The cemetery was opened in response to a decree by Emperor Joseph II that forbade further burials in cemeteries within the outer walls of the city of Vienna. He also ordered that bodies should be buried unembalmed and without coffins in mass graves. Thus the common assumption that Mozart’s grave (see below) was unmarked because he was too poor is false. His burial in 1791 after a funeral in the Stephansdom simply followed the regulations of the day.

All pictures can be found on my Flickr Photoset and more information is located at Wikipedia (German Version / English Version)