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A cemetery bigger than the 1st district, free to walk, with Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert in one plot and roe deer in the older sections.
What it costs
Free. It is a working municipal cemetery and open to anyone.
The Musicians’ graves — Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, the Strauss family, with a Mozart memorial — are in group 32A, near gate 2, and are signposted. The Funeral Museum on the site is separately ticketed and is more interesting than it sounds.
When to go
Long daylight hours, shorter in winter. It is genuinely large — several kilometres end to end — so use the bus that runs inside it, or plan to walk one section rather than the whole thing.
Getting there
Tram 71 from the Ring, all the way out to Zentralfriedhof Tor 2 — which is why Viennese slang for dying is “taking the 71”.
If you only have an hour
Tram 71 to gate 2, straight to the musicians’ graves in group 32A, then wander the older sections behind them for the deer and the overgrowth. Do not try to see the whole cemetery.
What people get wrong
People expect something sombre and find, in the older sections, something closer to a nature reserve: overgrown, full of birds, and with a resident population of roe deer and hares. It is one of the quietest places in Vienna and locals treat it as a park.
Nearby
Ticketing arrangements and opening patterns as published for 2026 and checked on 4 September 2026. These change without much warning — confirm with the site itself before you travel. More sights, and how they fit together, in Landmarks & Sights.