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25T68 Strauss family at Vienna’s central cemetery

E67, V15.

For the entire 2025 year, various events and exhibitions around Vienna celebrate the 200th birthday for “The Waltz King” Johann Strauss II (JS2). Born in Vienna, he is best known for composing the waltz “An der schönen blauen Donau” (On The Blue Danube).

At one corner of group 32A in the city’s central cemetery is this “portrait” view of 5 members of the Strauss family. The two daughters Anna and Theresia aren’t here, but along with JS2’s 1st wife Jetty Treffz, these three women are located at a single grave in Hietzing cemetery.

Number 1: Johann Strauss II, oldest brother.

Number 2. Johann Strauss I, father.

Number 3: Eduard Strauss, youngest brother.

Number 4: Josef Strauss, middle brother; Anna Strauss (née Streim), mother.

The Strauss family: 5 of 7 members. Two daughters are buried at Hietzing cemetery. Numbers 1 to 4 correspond to the graves shown below.
Number 1: Johann Strauss II, oldest brother (32A – 27).
Number 2: Johann Strauss I, father (32A – 15).
Number 3: Eduard Strauss, youngest brother (32A – 42).
Number 4: Josef Strauss, middle brother; Anna Strauss (née Streim), mother (32A – 44).

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 14 July 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

Vienna Central Cemetery: a city of the dead

Above/featured: The cemetery’s gate 2. Photo, 20 May 2018.

Where: Vienna Central Cemetery (Wiener Zentralfriedhof).
Who: Beethoven, Boltzmann, Falco, Lamarr, Schütte-Lihotzky, Strauss I and II.
Why: Cross-section of cultural and economic history for capital city and nation.

In Vienna, tram 71 begins in the Old Town; goes around the western half of the inner ring past City Hall, national Parliament, and the Opera House; and heads southeast to the city’s main cemetery or the Zentralfriedhof. Because coffins to the cemetery were once transported on the tram, there’s a saying particular to the city’s residents, a phrase which means they’ve died by “going to the end of the line.”

“Sie haben den 71er genommen.”
(They took/rode the 71.)

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Ludwig Boltzmann, Wiener Zentralfriedhof, Vienna Central Cemetery, Vienna, Wien, Austria, fotoeins.com

My Vienna: Ludwig Boltzmann in spring

I’m neither tragic nor hip, but I know a little bit about Canadian icon and band, The Tragically Hip, and specifically, a song of theirs called “Springtime in Vienna.”

I can’t play a musical instrument, but I especially liked listening to a performance of Johann Strauss II’s “An der schönen blauen Donau” (The Blue Danube) on an intercity river catamaran between Vienna and Bratislava.

What I’m totally convinced is when spring comes calling, I’m allergic to nature. I’m a living example to irritation and inflammation, and living consequence to nature’s response to spring.

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