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Cemetery of the Nameless

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Cemetery of the Nameless

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Cemetery of the Nameless

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    2. Schwechat River – Cemetery of the Nameless loop from Kaiserebersdorf

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    3. Cemetery of the Nameless loop from Albern

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    December 16, 2022

    The cemetery of the nameless consists of 2 parts. The older part of the cemetery can hardly be seen today. Trees and shrubs have overgrown the burial ground. Again and again this part of the cemetery was flooded. The floodplain forest took possession of the place of death again today. Until the turn of the century, washed-up bodies were buried in this part of the cemetery.

    The newer part of the cemetery was created in 1900 on the other side of the protective dam. In 1935, during the work to strengthen the protective dam, the cemetery received a stone enclosing wall and the Resurrection Chapel. In the period 1900 to 1940, a total of 104 water bodies were buried in the new part of the Cemetery of the Nameless. Only 43 of them could be identified.

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      December 16, 2022

      A short walk along 1st Molostrasse on the south bank leads to the Cemetery of the Nameless, founded in 1840 and named after the nameless victims of the Danube that the river released there. It was located outside the flood protection dam and was not moved to its current location until 1900. The cemetery area with its 1933-1935 built cylindrical chapel of resurrection is next to the artificially created "Blue Water" surrounded by a dense alluvial forest, a place of leisure.

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        December 16, 2022

        The Cemetery of the Nameless is not easy to find. Only a few signs along the way point to this place at river kilometer 1,918 in the middle of Alberner Hafen. Up until 1939, a whirlpool caught not only rotten driftwood but also around 600 corpses.

        This cemetery is the only burial ground in the world reserved exclusively for the victims of a river. Until 1940, victims of murder, accident victims and victims of unsolved criminal cases found their final resting place here. These were mostly unknown dead that washed up here and were buried right away.

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          November 27, 2020

          This cemetery is the only burial site in the world that is exclusively reserved for the victims of a river. Until 1940, murdered people, accident victims and victims of unsolved criminal cases found their final resting place here. Most of them were unknown dead who were washed ashore here and immediately buried.
          Simple wrought iron crosses are the only witnesses to remember the victims of the river. Sometimes you can still find a sign on the cross, mostly written on by hand: "Nameless", "Unknown", "Male", "Female" and perhaps a date on which the corpse was washed ashore.
          The honorary gravedigger Josef Fuchs is inextricably linked to the history and preservation of the cemetery: he looked after the cemetery with great care and buried the bodies of water until 1939. Fuchs took care of the graves even after his retirement until he died in the spring of 1996 at the age of 90.

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            November 27, 2020

            The first burial of an unknown body of water from the Danube took place here in 1840. In the past, a vortex of water drove not only flotsam ashore but also the bodies of drowned people, often disintegrated beyond recognition. Identification was usually not possible. A regular burial was denied to these corpses (not least because many of them were people who put an end to their own lives in the Danube), they were buried at meter intervals without a sound. This is how the first cemetery came into being, and it was flooded again and again. It is thanks to the Simmering district chairman, Albin Hirsch, that in 1900, with the voluntary participation of Simmering craftsmen, a second cemetery was laid behind the flood protection dam on a piece of wood that the municipality of Albern had leased from the city of Vienna for a recognition interest is maintained and accessible. The former honorary gravedigger Josef Fuchs (* March 4, 1906, † April 2, 1996) looked after the cemetery with great care until his death and contributed significantly to its preservation and its current appearance. He placed simple iron crosses with white figures of Christ on the graves. He was honored for his work with the Golden Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna. His descendants continue to look after the cemetery voluntarily and without public support.

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              May 19, 2021

              In this cemetery people are buried who were washed ashore in the port area between 1845 and 1940 because of a vortex of the Danube at this point. The names of the victims remained mostly unknown, because either they were people who jumped from the Danube bridges to suicide out of desperation - a disgrace for the relatives of that time - or the river had decomposed the corpse beyond recognition. The cemetery consists of two parts. The old area was destroyed by floods and is completely overgrown, but a memorial cross commemorates the 478 buried here. Today's cemetery, which was in operation until 1940, was built around the turn of the century. Only 43 people buried have been identified to date, all other crosses are marked "unknown".

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                September 15, 2022

                A very well-kept place not far from numerous industrial plants.

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                  November 27, 2020

                  To supply the Simmering biomass power plant, a central chopping station was built on the grounds of the Vienna harbor in Albern. The main components are choppers for round wood, kindling and branches as well as trash separators, metal detectors and a diameter limiter. The average amount stored at the chopping site will be 30,000 m3.

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                    December 31, 2020

                    The Simmering biomass power plant reduces CO₂ emissions by 144,000 tons per year.
                    The biomass plant in Simmering alone reduces the need for fossil fuels in Vienna by around 72,000 tons of hard coal, around 47,000 tons of heating oil and around 40,000 tons of natural gas.

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