CRIPTA IMPERIAL, KAPUZINERGRUFT en VIENA. — Transcript

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1. 0:12Hello travelers! Welcome to Vienna and more especially to the Capuchin Church,
2. 0:20the Capuchin Church and Crypt which since 1633 has been the main burial place for the
3. 0:26Habsburgs. As you see here, this is the church. This is the monument to Marco d'Aviano and that is the
4. 0:33entrance to the crypt. Today there are 142 bodies of members of royalty and the
5. 0:39oldest aristocracy, plus there are some urns that have hearts or ashes, for example, there are 12
6. 0:46emperors and 18 empresses and the most recent of all the people buried here
7. 0:51is from 2011. Here the story begins because the Empress Anna of Tyrol, who was the wife
8. 0:57of Emperor Matthias, wanted to be buried here in this place but
9. 1:05it was supposed to be for her and her husband only. near the Hofburg Palace but well they made
10. 1:10a kind of little chapel here for the two of them, the first stone was laid on
11. 1:16September 8, 1622 and then well this has been getting bigger because not only
12. 1:22she and her husband have been buried here but everyone His children and all his descendants
13. 1:26wanted to be buried here, so a lot of
14. 1:31extensions had to be made so that they could all fit. Now you can't see it from here, but when they buried
15. 1:35the Empress María Teresia with her husband, sorry I said María Teresia because in German it is María
16. 1:41Teresia, then María Teresa her sarcophagus was under a dome that could be seen from the
17. 1:47outside. There was a dome here, you can't see it now, but you did then. It seems incredible but
18. 1:53there is a community of monks inside. In other words, it is not simply the crypt and
19. 1:58the church, but it is a convent. No, not a convent, what is the other thing? I can't get the
20. 2:04word out, I'm putting it because it's not a convent, it's for women, I don't know what it's called. Well,
21. 2:10I'll put it there because right now I can't get the word out. So here, let's see if I can
22. 2:17get closer so that it doesn't give me the shadow, I'll show you the monument to Marco D'Aviano, you can see it here.
23. 2:30Well, here you see Marco de Aviano, he was born on November 17, 1631 in
24. 2:38Aviano, which is near Venice, and died on August 13, 1699, due to cancer here
25. 2:46in Vienna. Well, you see here it is not seen very well but in the monument like this.
26. 2:52If in Kahlenberg that I have you there is the church and the theme of the battle is told because
27. 2:57he is very famous and because during the siege of Vienna he was one of the heroes, one of those who held
28. 3:02an open-air mass helped by you know Juan, King Juan of Poland, I told you this
29. 3:07a little, I already told you in the video, I will give you the link so you can see it But well, here they were
30. 3:11fighting against against the Ottoman Empire so that they would not arrive here, this was one
31. 3:17of the decisive battles in history. Hey, so that the Ottomans would not continue expanding,
32. 3:23then you see here, Marco D'Aviano puts his soul of the liberation of Vienna, September 12,
33. 3:341000, I am very bad. With the numbers I will be putting them now because right now number yes I can't remember it
34. 3:40so well then let's see I'm going to show you I think Let's go into the
35. 3:47church first you see that this is the the church I already told you once that these They send to
36. 3:55all the important places they are with the four flags these are with the colors of Austria
37. 4:00you see here capucino er kirje the church of the capuchins Sur halig María fenga Santa María de
38. 4:06los Ángeles 1622 1632 You see they built it at that time then A curiosity you will all know o
39. 4:16You have already seen on TV Well, when they buried the Empress Chita or her son, the famous eh
40. 4:22ritual of knocking here at the door, no, then the St. Stephen's Cathedral is there ahead,
41. 4:27so after doing the funeral, the float, that spectacular float. I would come down this street,
42. 4:34come down here, it was full of people, so here the master of ceremonies, the entire community
43. 4:40of Capuchins is behind the doors. Okay, so here, the master of ceremonies
44. 4:44would give a blow, well, he had three blows, in fact, with a stick, here he would go thump. pum pum Then
45. 4:51one of the monks would say who wants to come in. So, for example, at the time of appointment No, well,
46. 4:56he would say, well, he mentions the Empress of Austria, queen of Hungary, and the zillion titles she has, to which
47. 5:02the father, Prior, would answer, we don't know her. Then the master of ceremonies gives the
48. 5:09three knocks, the father asks who wants to enter and then he reduces the titles and only
49. 5:15says, well, that's the Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary, and the father answers again that
50. 5:20no, they don't know her, so the third time he gives the three knocks again. He already says
51. 5:24Who wants to enter, he quotes a poor, humble sinner and then they answer him This is how he is going
52. 5:29to enter and they open the doors and they enter, a small mass is said and they go down to the crypt
53. 5:36there he has to recognize someone The corpse in The case of Sisi was her sister Matilde, I'm telling you
54. 5:42this as a curiosity because there is a very famous lithograph that is already deceased and Francisco
55. 5:48José crying at her feet and that didn't happen, no one saw her dead except her sister because she is the
56. 5:52tradition that you have to recognize the corpse, this ritual of the tapping ones, eh, just as
57. 5:59I'm telling you and as you know, it's only for Sita and for Oto. Okay, it seems
58. 6:04like it's a centuries-old tradition, but no, it's not. Okay, so yes. There is a tradition of
59. 6:09calling three times or of saying titles or not titles, but what is a written tradition is a protocol
60. 6:16and such, there is no one, it is not known if so. Yes, if they also did it to Rodolfo or Francisco José,
61. 6:20they would surely do something but no. I don't know if that's what it is, but it's good that you know, as a curiosity, this
62. 6:25happens at this door, so now before going down to it, you know that you can't film in here, you can take
63. 6:31photos, so I'm going to show you everything, complete with photos and counting the things, what
64. 6:36we are going to do now is enter the church here. This is one of the most famous things in
65. 6:43Vienna apart from Sisi, the fiakers are very expensive. By the way, but hey, they are very well known. Well,
66. 6:50let's go into the church and see if I can go in because it seems like they are cleaning or something let's
67. 6:54see let's see if it seems like we will be able to go in Well forgive me if I speak a little softer
68. 6:59but you know that in churches you have to speak softer okay it is officially the church
69. 7:04of Santa María of the Angels Okay then it is that if it seems that they are cleaning something but you see
70. 7:12here This is the entrance so forgive me for lowering the volume of the voice a little then
71. 7:23I tell you well it is already as I have told you founded by the will of the Empress Ana, who was the
72. 7:28wife of Emperor Matthias, then under Emperor Ferdinand, the first
73. 7:33stone was laid on September 8, 1622. Okay, so I don't know if going first to the left is beautiful.
74. 7:40Forgive me for telling you, but how nice. Well, I I think we're going to go first to the
75. 7:49founders' chapel. Well, it's this one here, which is the least simple of the whole church. The
76. 7:54truth is. But I'm telling you. Right below is what is the original part of the crypt that
77. 7:59those The Emperor Matías and the Empress Ana are buried here, and in theory I already told you it was just
78. 8:05for them, but well, here you see four statues of rulers of the House of Habsburg. Ah, there
79. 8:12it says Matías, this must be Fernando, according to what it was, I'll tell you the con The one who laid the first stone,
80. 8:20this is Fernando the third and Fernando I, okay, this is this, this chapel is already a little more,
81. 8:30much more decorated, you see, here it is very beautiful, the truth is, I'm telling you Here below
82. 8:38they are placed here on this altar, celebrated on the 25th March 1782 Pope Pius saw a mass
83. 8:49H here he was when they buried Otto of Habsburg in July 2011 that was
84. 8:58when they put him here before taking him down to the crypt So now let's go to the other
85. 9:04Well I'm going Let's lower the volume a little because there is someone praying, okay, excuse me, I'll wait
86. 9:09a moment, okay, forgive the interruption, but there was someone praying and it seemed ugly
87. 9:14to be here filming and talking while someone is praying, so I waited a little bit,
88. 9:18okay, this is the chapel. from La Piedad okay, here you see it has a beautiful altar with a life-size stone
89. 9:24so here you have the tomb of Marco de Aviano, I'm telling you, this is this saint from
90. 9:31here in the city who died here from Cancer and then he is also buried back there, let's
91. 9:38see What is the name of this man, Paul Von Colindres, who died in Vienna in 1766, the whole
92. 9:45floor is there, but it is there, sorry. Okay, so here you see him, he was the Capuchin general minister.
93. 9:57You see the church is super beautiful, sorry, there is someone praying again. So, well, this is it.
94. 10:01the chapel there are several plaques in his honor I'm going to take it off because someone here has gone to pray again
95. 10:09So I'm going to go show you the the altar Here the vacuum cleaner is good now also
96. 10:18nothing that they don't want me to film the video today but well, this is the altar, it is very beautiful here
97. 10:25is a little altar to Father Pietro from Pietraelchina Pio from Pietraelchina, sorry to look at the altar
98. 10:32How beautiful, sorry for the vacuum cleaner that has been put on just now so Well, I'm going to cut the
99. 10:37video, here you have Padre Pio and nothing, let's go now to the crypt, you know it can't be
100. 10:45filmed, I'm going to show you the whole interior with photos and then I go outside and I'll say goodbye to the video from
101. 10:51outside okay. Come on, here we go, let's go to the crypt once you've Having acquired the entrance, we must
102. 11:00go down some stairs that take us to the cloakroom and from there we arrive at the first
103. 11:06room. The first room we see when we arrive is the baroque-style Leopold crypt.
104. 11:13Emperor Leopold I ordered the crypt to be expanded in 1657 because in the founding crypt, which
105. 11:22was previously called Los Angeles, there was no space left to bury his father. This crypt houses 16
106. 11:30sarcophagi, two urns with hearts and 12 children's coffins, simple and unadorned, from the 17th century.
107. 11:36So that the video does not become too long, we are going to focus on the most
108. 11:44important personalities. Before focusing on Leopold's crypt and in order to
109. 11:52go in chronological order, we go to the founders' room.
110. 12:00This is the crypt of the founders and is called so because the Emperor Matthias and the
111. 12:05Empress Anne, who is the true founder of the Imperial crypt, rest here. Anne was born on October 4,
112. 12:121585 in Innsbruck, daughter of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol and his second wife Anne Catherine
113. 12:18of Mantua. She married Emperor Matthias in 1611 and died childless a few months before her husband in
114. 12:241618. Emperor Matthias lies next to her. born on February 24, 1557 in Vienna,
115. 12:34son of Maximilian II and the Infanta María. He was Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
116. 12:40, Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia. Did you know that
117. 12:46Schönbrunn Palace received its name from an exclamation that the Emperor Matthias said? Both
118. 12:52sarcophagi are made of lead and the legs you see below, the eagle legs, were added in
119. 12:591755 by order of the Empress Maria Theresa and are the work of Baltasar Ferdinand Moll.
120. 13:04This is the urn containing the heart of Queen Maria Anna of Portugal, daughter of
121. 13:18Emperor Leopold I and his third wife Eleonora Magdalena of Palatinate-Neoburg. She married
122. 13:24King John V of Portugal in 1708, with whom she had four daughters and a son.
123. 13:29She died in 1754 at the age of 71 and was buried in the church of the
124. 13:35German Discalced Carmelites in Lisbon, although her heart rests here with her family. We go to the right side of
125. 13:41the crypt where five empresses rest. I am going to show them to you in the order in which
126. 13:46the sarcophagi are located. Empress Eleonora of Mantua-Nevers, daughter of Prince Charles of
127. 13:53Mantua-Nevers and Maria Gonzaga, a maternal descendant of King Philip II of Spain, was the
128. 13:59third wife of Emperor Ferdinand I, with whom she had four children, although two died in childhood.
129. 14:05you drink. Margaret Teresa of Spain was the daughter of King Philip IV of Spain and Mariana of Austria,
130. 14:16therefore sister of the last Habsburg King of Spain Charles II. In 1666 she married her uncle
131. 14:24and cousin, Emperor Leopold I of Austria, with whom she had four children, although only one
132. 14:29survived to adulthood. She died at just 21 years old after complications during her last
133. 14:35birth. Margarita is famous for having been painted on several occasions by the great
134. 14:39Diego de Velázquez and for being the protagonist of the masterpiece of the universal painter, Las Meninas.
135. 14:49Maria Leopoldina of Tyrol was the daughter of Count Leopold V of
136. 14:57Austria of Tyrol and Claudia de' Medici. She married the widowed Emperor Ferdinand I in 1648 and
137. 15:04died giving birth to the couple's only child when she was barely 17 years old.
138. 15:08María Ana of Spain was the daughter of King Philip III of Spain and Margaret
139. 15:16of Austria. She married Ferdinand of Habsburg in 1631, then king of Hungary,
140. 15:23Bohemia and Romans, later Emperor Ferdinand I, with whom she had six children. The last
141. 15:29childbirth, a girl, cost her her life and they both rest together in this sarcophagus.
142. 15:35Maria Anna was the mother of King Ferdinand IV of Hungary, Bohemia and Romans and Emperor Leopold I.
143. 15:40Empress Claudia Felicitas was the first-born daughter of Archduke Ferdinand Charles
144. 15:49of Austria and Anne de' Medici. On October 15, 1673 she became the second wife of
145. 15:56Emperor Leopold I with whom she had two daughters who died in infancy. She died at only 22
146. 16:02years old from tuberculosis, and was buried in the Dominican church next to her mother, although
147. 16:08her heart rests in this urn that you see here. Ferdinand III of Habsburg and Wittelsbach was
148. 16:19the fourth son of Ferdinand II and Anne of Bavaria. He was crowned king of Hungary, Bohemia and Romans before
149. 16:26succeeding his father on the imperial throne in 1637. He had a total of 11 children with his three wives,
150. 16:34whose sarcophagi we have already visited. He suffered from gout and died at the age of 48 from some type of biliary disease.
151. 16:41King Ferdinand IV was born in 1633 as the firstborn of Ferdinand III and
152. 16:51Maria Anne of Spain. He was king of the Holy Roman Empire, of Hungary, of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria.
153. 16:59He died of smallpox at only 20 years old and following his wish, his heart was placed at the feet of the
154. 17:05Virgin of Loreto in the Augustinian church of the Hofburg, thus beginning a tradition
155. 17:10that was repeated 54 times. Eleonora Magdalena of Palatinate-Neuburg was the
156. 17:17first-born daughter of the Elector Palatine Philip William of Neoburg and his second wife Elizabeth Amalia
157. 17:23of Hesse-Darmstadt. She married the twice-widowed Emperor Leopold I in 1676, to whom she gave 10
158. 17:31children, among them the Emperors Joseph I and Charles VI. He died of a stroke at the age of 65.
159. 17:38This is Charles's crypt or Karlsgurft. Late Baroque in style, it is located just
160. 17:47below the altar and choir of the church and was designed as a continuation of the
161. 17:51Leopold crypt between 1710 and 1720 by Lucas de Hildebrand. It began during the reign of Joseph I
162. 18:00and was completed under the mandate of Charles VI, from whom it takes its name. Amalia Wilhelmina of
163. 18:06Braunschweig Lünenburg was the youngest daughter of Duke John Frederick of Braunschweig Lunenburg and Benedicta
164. 18:12Henrietta of the Palatinate. She married the then Archduke Joseph of Austria, later Joseph I
165. 18:18of Austria in February 1699, giving him three children, two girls and a boy who died in infancy. Her
166. 18:26husband, an inveterate womanizer, infected her with a venereal disease that left her sterile, so
167. 18:32when her husband died the throne passed to her brother-in-law Charles, the future Charles VI. Amalia survived her
168. 18:38husband for more than 30 years, dying of dropsy in 1742 at the age of 68. He rests in the
169. 18:47Salesian convent of Vienna where he retired for the last 20 years of his life and only his heart is here.
170. 18:52Emperor Joseph I was born in 1678, the firstborn of Emperor Leopold I
171. 19:03and his third wife Eleonora Magdalena of the Palatinate. He was king of Hungary and
172. 19:08Romans and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from
173. 19:111705. He married Amalia of Braunschweig Lünenburg in 1699 with
174. 19:20whom he had two daughters and a son who died in childhood.
175. 19:22His entire reign was linked to the War of
176. 19:28Spanish Succession since his brother Carlos was one of the candidates for the throne. This
177. 19:33fight is represented in his sarcophagus in a relief of the liberation of Barcelona in 1706.
178. 19:37He died of blackpox at the age of 32
179. 19:45in April 1711, with his brother Carlos being his successor on the throne.
180. 19:54Isabella Cristina of Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel was born in 1691, the firstborn of Duke Ludwig Rudolf of Braunschweig
181. 20:04Lünenburg and Cristina Luisa of Ötingen-Ötingen. In 1708 and after converting to Catholicism, she married
182. 20:13in Barcelona the then Archduke Charles of Austria, who at that time was fighting for his
183. 20:18succession rights to the Spanish throne, but who would end up ascending to the Imperial throne in 1711.
184. 20:24Isabel was governor general of Catalonia for 2 years and her husband gave birth to four children, although only
185. 20:30two girls survived, Maria Theresa and Maria Anna. Isabel died in 1750 at the age of 59 during the
186. 20:39glorious reign of her daughter the Empress Maria Theresa. As a curiosity, I tell you that in both
187. 20:45her tomb and that of her husband you can find the crown of the kingdom of Spain. Charles VI was the seventh
188. 20:54son of Emperor Leopold I and his third wife Eleonora Magdalena of Palatinate-Neoburg. He was one
189. 21:02of the pretenders to the Spanish throne after the death without heirs of King Carlos II of Spain and
190. 21:07Although he proclaimed himself King in 1703, the throne finally went to Philip of Anjou, the
191. 21:13Bourbon dynasty entering Spain and Charles succeeded his brother Joseph I on the Imperial throne in 1711.
192. 21:18He married Princess Isabel Cristina of Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel in Barcelona.
193. 21:29with whom he had four children, although only two daughters survived to adulthood: Maria Theresa and Maria Anna.
194. 21:35He fought against the Turks in the Austro-Turkish War and conquered most
195. 21:42of Wallachia and Serbia, although he lost them in a later war. . He was defeated
196. 21:48in the War of Polish Succession and had to cede the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily and
197. 21:52the presidiums of Tuscany to Charles of Bourbon in exchange for the duchy of Parma and Piacenza.
198. 21:59In 1713 he enacted the pragmatic sanction that established that his kingdom could not
199. 22:04be divided and allowed that the Heirs to the Throne could be
200. 22:08women. He died in 1740 at the age of 55, probably due to
201. 22:17mushroom food poisoning. Leopold I was born in 1640, the fifth son of Ferdinand III
202. 22:28and María Ana of Spain. He was king of Hungary, of Bohemia and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
203. 22:35from 1658. The almost 50 years of his reign were characterized by almost
204. 22:43continuous wars against France and against the Ottoman Empire. Married on three occasions, with Margaret
205. 22:49of Spain, the Infanta de las Meninas, Claudia Felicidad of Tyrol and Eleonora Magdalena of the
206. 22:55Palatinate, whose sarcophagi we have already visited, he had a total of 16 children, among them the emperors
207. 23:03Joseph I and Charles VI. He died in 1705 at the age of 64. This is the crypt of Maria
208. 23:14Theresa, obviously the most splendid extension of the crypt of the Capuchins. The
209. 23:21Rococo-style mausoleum was built under the sacristy garden between 1753 and 1754 by the master
210. 23:28builders Jean Nicola Jadot de Ville Issey and Nicolaus Von Pacassi The luminous vaulted room is designed
211. 23:36according to the specifications of the imperial couple Francis I and Maria Theresa with
212. 23:41a fresco in the dome by Joseph Ignaz Mildofers and a magnificent double sarcophagus by
213. 23:46Baltasar Ferdinand Moll in which he enthrones the completely sculptural and facing portraits
214. 23:51of the imperial couple. In this crypt 16 people rest, including seven daughters of the
215. 23:59imperial couple. The Imperial Countess Carolina von Fuchs-Mollard was born in 1675, daughter of Francis
216. 24:09Maximilian von Mollard and Maria Catherine Tommen Von Frankenberg, married in 1710 to Christoph Ernst
217. 24:18Fuchs von Bimbach with whom she had two daughters and of whom she was widowed in 1719. In 1728 she was appointed
218. 24:27educator of the archduchesses María Teresa and María Ana, daughters of Emperor Charles VI. The relationship with
219. 24:33Maria Theresa lasted until the end of her life, being named her main administrator in
220. 24:391736. She died in April 1754 and by the express wish of the Empress, she was buried here as the only
221. 24:48person who did not belong to the Habsburg house. Emperor Joseph I was born in 1741, the fourth
222. 24:57son of Maria Theresa of Austria and Francis Stephen of Lorraine, and as such was the first emperor
223. 25:03of the Holy Roman Empire of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He married Isabel de Borbón y Parma in 1760,
224. 25:11with whom he had two daughters who died in childhood. The premature birth of the second
225. 25:17cost the life of his much-loved wife and the losses plunged José into a deep depression from which
226. 25:22he never recovered. In his second marriage in 1765 with María Josepha of Bavaria he found neither
227. 25:30happiness nor offspring, and his wife died only two years after the wedding. José never remarried
228. 25:37. He was co-regent of his mother from the death of his father in 1765 until that of his mother in 1780.
229. 25:47Both his character and his tastes and ideas were completely opposite to those of his mother, which
230. 25:53is evident in the difference in the sarcophagus that he chose for himself, a simple and austere
231. 25:59copper coffin in front of the spectacular, profusely decorated double sarcophagus that his
232. 26:05parents had chosen. José died of tuberculosis at the age of 49 and was succeeded by his brother Leopoldo. Isabella of
233. 26:16Bourbon and Parma was the firstborn of Infante Felipe of Spain, son of King Felipe V of Spain and Princess
234. 26:22Luisa Isabel of France, who was only 14 years old when she was born. She married in 1760 the
235. 26:31crown prince Joseph of Austria, the future Joseph I, with whom she had two daughters. premature birth
236. 26:37of the second caused the death of both just five days apart. Isabel was only 22
237. 26:46years old. The baby named María Cristina rests in a sarcophagus under her mother's. Her husband
238. 26:55was completely devastated and the final blow came with the death of their first-born daughter just 5 years
239. 27:01later. The little Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria was the first-born child of
240. 27:10Crown Prince Joseph of Austria and Princess Isabella of Bourbon and Parma and also the first granddaughter of
241. 27:16Empress Maria Theresa. He lost his mother when he was barely 2 years old and became the only
242. 27:22comfort for his father who had been devastated by the death of his beloved wife and his newborn daughter
243. 27:28. María Teresa fell ill with pneumonia and nothing could be done to save her, dying
244. 27:34at the age of 7 on January 23, 1770. She rests with her mother and her little sister in
245. 27:42this beautiful and sad sarcophagus to which once finished the figure of the little girl
246. 27:48resting peacefully on a bed. Maria Josepha of Bavaria was born in 1739, the youngest of the children of
247. 27:58Elector Charles Albert of Bavaria, future Emperor Charles VI of the Holy Roman Empire, and
248. 28:04Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria. In January 1765 she married the widowed emperor Joseph II, it was
249. 28:15an unhappy and childless marriage. She died of smallpox in 1767 at the age of 28 and after only 2
250. 28:24years of marriage without her husband visiting her in her agony or attending her funeral.
251. 28:34Maria Theresa of Habsburg, the great enlightened absolutist sovereign at the head of one of
252. 28:40the most important states of her time, was born in 1717, second daughter of Emperor Charles VI and
253. 28:47Isabel Christina of Braunschweig Wölfenbüttel. In February 1736 she married Prince Francis
254. 28:54Stephen of Lorraine with whom she had 16 children, 13 of whom survived infancy. 12 of them
255. 29:02rest here in the Imperial crypt. Thanks to the pragmatic sanction of 1713 and after her father died,
256. 29:10Maria Theresa became queen of Hungary and Bohemia. She was Empress consort of the Holy
257. 29:16Roman Empire after the Imperial coronation of her husband Francis Stephen. During her
258. 29:2240-year reign, she faced two dynastic wars and was responsible for the large number of reforms and
259. 29:29improvements in all possible areas in her empire. After being widowed in 1765, he was co-regent
260. 29:38with his son Joseph II, but the differences in character, ideas and way of governing made
261. 29:44cooperation quite difficult. The great María Teresa died of pneumonia at the age of 63 on November 29
262. 29:50, 1780 and was placed with her beloved husband in this spectacular double sarcophagus.
263. 29:59Francis Stephen of Lorraine and Bourbon Orleans was Holy Roman Emperor, Duke
264. 30:06of Lorraine and Grand Duke of Tuscany. ninth son of Duke Leopold I of Lorraine and Isabel Charlotte
265. 30:12of Bourbon Orleans, he married Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria in 1736. From this union
266. 30:2116 children would be born, among them the emperors Joseph II and Leopold I and the queens Carolina of Naples
267. 30:28and Sicily and Marie Antoinette of France. Although he was co-regent of the
268. 30:35Habsburg lands from 1740, he barely participated in government affairs and dedicated himself to consolidating the finances of the new
269. 30:41Habsburg Lorraine house that he had just founded together with Maria Theresa, something he did with great success, and
270. 30:47with great passion. Natural Sciences creating the Schönbrunn Zoo for example. Francisco Esteban 's collection
271. 30:53was later transformed into the Natural History Museum of Vienna.
272. 30:58Francis Stephen died suddenly at the age of 57, probably from a stroke during the
273. 31:05wedding celebrations of his son Leopold I in Innsbruck. His widow, broken with grief, cut her
274. 31:12hair, wore black forever and retired from the public life of the court. She also ordered
275. 31:19the room in the Insbruck Palace where her husband died to be converted into a chapel. The
276. 31:24imperial couple rests in this spectacular double sarcophagus by Baltasar Ferdinand Moll made
277. 31:30of black metal and precious stuccoed marble adorned with reliefs and decorations that
278. 31:35represent the life of the couple. It measures more than 3 meters long and 2 meters wide and is crowned
279. 31:42with two 1 meter sculptural figures of the couple. The small golden medallion decorated with
280. 31:48laurel was placed by his daughter Carolina Queen of Naples in 1802 in memory of her mother. in it it says
281. 31:58Most sweet mother with whom I cannot unite my body, accept this painting of your daughter's mourning.
282. 32:08This is Francis' crypt or Franzensgruzft. created by order of Emperor Francis II
283. 32:13who rests here in the center surrounded by his four wives, although until 1925 there were
284. 32:1913 sarcophagi here. It is an octagonal crypt in the Biedermayer style created in 1824.
285. 32:29Francis II, last emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and first emperor of Austria,
286. 32:35was born in 1768 as the second son and first son of Leopold I and the Infanta María Luisa
287. 32:43of Spain. He married four times: with Isabel of Württemberg, María Teresa of the two Sicilies,
288. 32:49María Luisa of Austria-Este and Carolina Augusta of Bavaria and had a total of 13 children. His reign
289. 32:56was marked by wars against Napoleon Bonaparte, who defeated him causing
290. 33:01territorial losses and oppressive peace conditions. In 1804 Francis established the hereditary empire
291. 33:10in Austria. to put an end to the Holy Roman Empire he renounced the Imperial crown in 1806.
292. 33:17Francis died at age 67 in 1835 and was succeeded by his mentally weak son Ferdinand.
293. 33:28Elizabeth Wilhelmina of Württemberg was the eighth of the children of Duke Frederick II Eugene of Württemberg
294. 33:34and Princess Frederick of Brandenburg Schwedt. She married the then
295. 33:41Crown Prince Francis of Austria in 1788, a very happy union that ended tragically just two years
296. 33:47later, when Isabel died at the age of 22 due to hemorrhage during the birth of her daughter.
297. 33:55little Luisa Isabel whose brain was damaged in childbirth by the use of forceps died only a
298. 34:01year and a half later and rests in a niche in the wall of Fernando's crypt. Princess
299. 34:07Maria Teresa of Bourbon Two Sicilies was the eldest daughter of King Ferdinand I of Naples and Sicily and
300. 34:13Archduchess Carolina of Austria. She married the widowed Prince Francis of Austria in September
301. 34:181790 just 7 months after the death of his first wife. The marriage was very happy
302. 34:25during the 17 years it lasted and together they had 12 children, among them Emperor Ferdinand I,
303. 34:31Empress María Luisa of the French and Empress Leopoldina of Brazil. In April 1807,
304. 34:38Teresa fell ill with tuberculosis, which led to the premature birth of a girl who died after
305. 34:433 days and the death of the Empress at the age of 34. Maria Luisa of Austria Este was the
306. 34:52last daughter of Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria and Princess Maria Beatriz of Modena-Este.
307. 34:58She married the twice-widowed Emperor Francis I of Austria in 1808, although they had no children
308. 35:04during the 8 years that their marriage lasted. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 28 in April 1816.
309. 35:11Carolina Augusta of Bavaria, fourth wife of Emperor Francis I, was the daughter of King
310. 35:21Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Landgravina Augusta Wilhelmina of Hessen Darmstadt.
311. 35:29She married for the first time in 1808 the then Crown Prince William I of Württemberg
312. 35:33, who divorced her in 1814, and the marriage, which was not consummated, was annulled in
313. 35:411816. In November 1816 she married the three-time widowed Emperor Francis I of Austria with whom
314. 35:49she had no children and of whom she was widowed in 1835. She died one day after her 80th birthday in 1873.
315. 35:58This is the Ferdinand crypt built between 1840 and 1842 by order of Emperor Ferdinand I
316. 36:10in the late Biedermayer style. This crypt only contains two visible sarcophagi as
317. 36:17the other 37 coffins are in walled niches. There are four marble plaques
318. 36:23showing the names of the people resting behind each wall.
319. 36:30Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria was the second son and first son of Emperor
320. 36:35Francis I and Maria Theresa of the Two Sicilies. He suffered from epilepsy, rickets and hydrocephalus. He
321. 36:43was crowned king of Hungary in 1830, still during the lifetime of his father, whom he succeeded to the Imperial throne
322. 36:48in 1835. In January 1831 he married his cousin Maria Anne of Savoy with whom he had no children. .
323. 36:58Weak monarch and unable to govern, he abdicated to his nephew Franz Joseph during the revolution of
324. 37:041848. After the transfer of government, Ferdinand moved with his wife to the royal palace in Prague
325. 37:11where he lived until his death at the age of 82 in 1875. Princess Mary Anne of Savoy was the sixth daughter
326. 37:18of King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia Piedmont and Maria Theresa of Eastern Austria and had a sister
327. 37:24twin named María Teresa. At the age of 27 she married her second cousin, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria,
328. 37:32future Emperor Ferdinand I in February 1831, but more than a wife she was a nurse to
329. 37:38her husband. During the revolution of 1848 she and her sister-in-law Archduchess Sofia convinced
330. 37:46their respective husbands to renounce their inheritance rights in favor of the young Franz
331. 37:51Joseph, son of Sofia and future Emperor Franz Joseph I. After this María Anna and her husband retired
332. 37:58. to Prague until her death in May 1884 at the age of 80, having been widowed in 1875.
333. 38:04Archduchess Maria Ana Carolina, familiarly called Änchen, Anita, was born on October 27,
334. 38:191835, being the fourth of the children and the only girl of Archduke Francis. Charles of Austria and
335. 38:27Sofia of Bavaria. The little girl suffered from epilepsy and on February 5, 1840, before turning
336. 38:345 years old, she had a seizure that she could not overcome. The first-born daughter of Emperors
337. 38:41Franz Joseph and Elizabeth of Austria, Sisi, was born on March 5, 1855 and was named after
338. 38:48her paternal grandmother, Sofia. In May 1857 she and her sister Gisela fell ill during a trip
339. 38:56to Hungary with their parents. While Gisela, at 10 months old, recovered without any further problems, the
340. 39:03fever and diarrhea weakened Sofía until her small body could no longer take it, dying in the
341. 39:09arms of her desperate mother on May 29, 1857 at only two years old. The first member
342. 39:18of the Habsburg dynasty to be cremated after his death was Leopold of Austria Tuscany, son of
343. 39:24Archduke Leopold Salvador and Blanche of Bourbon. After the fall of the monarchy he emigrated to Switzerland,
344. 39:31Germany, France and finally to the United States. He acquired American nationality in 1953
345. 39:38and died at the age of 61 in 1958 in Connecticut. The Tuscan crypt was built by Johan Höhne
346. 39:48between 1840 and 1842 on behalf of Ferdinand I and was built at the same time as Ferdinand's crypt,
347. 39:55separated from it by an arch. Until the reform of 1960, about 50 coffins of
348. 40:02the Habsburg Tuscan family branch were piled up here . today there are only 14 of them, all simple brass or copper coffins.
349. 40:13Archduchess Maria Christina of Habsburg Lorraine, familiarly called Mimi, was the fourth daughter of
350. 40:19the emperors Maria Theresia and Francis Stephen of Austria. She was born in 1742 on the 25th birthday
351. 40:26of her mother, who always considered her her favorite daughter, which earned her envy
352. 40:32and rivalries with her brothers. She was the only one of them who could freely choose her future husband.
353. 40:38She married Prince Albert of Saxony in 1766. In 1781 her brother, Emperor Joseph II, appointed the
354. 40:46couple governors of the Austrian Netherlands, but in 1789 they had to flee Brussels due to the
355. 40:53Bravante revolution. The couple's only daughter, Cristina, died the day after birth and shortly
356. 40:59after they adopted the third child of her brother Leopold, Archduke Charles, who was their
357. 41:05universal heir. Mimi died in 1798 at the age of 56 from stomach problems and her husband had
358. 41:15the famous tomb of Antonio Canova built in the Augustinian church in Vienna with the inscription:
359. 41:20uxore optima Alberto, Alberto's best wife. Emperor Leopold II was the ninth child and third son
360. 41:30of Emperors Maria Theresa and Francis Stephen of Austria. He was Duke of Tuscany, king
361. 41:36of Hungary and Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor succeeding his brother Joseph II.
362. 41:43In 1765 he married the Infanta María Luisa of Spain with whom he had 16 children, 12 boys and four girls,
363. 41:5114 of them reaching adulthood. He was emperor for only 2 years since he died
364. 41:57suddenly in March 1792. There was talk of poisoning and murder, but it was never
365. 42:03proven, the most accepted version being that he died of pneumonia or purulent pleurisy.
366. 42:11Maria Luisa de Borbón was the fifth of the Children of King Charles III of Naples and Sicily and Maria Amalia of
367. 42:17Saxony. She married the future Emperor Leopold I in 1765 with whom she had 16 children,
368. 42:2514 of them reaching adulthood. Her reign was brief as her husband died only 2 years after
369. 42:32ascending the throne and she followed him only three months later, dying in May 1792 at only 46 years old.
370. 42:39This is the so-called new crypt. The construction was carried out between 1960
371. 42:47and 1962 in a very sober style with concrete walls that give it an impression of being
372. 42:53an excavated tomb. It houses 26 sarcophagi from three different centuries, the first sarcophagi
373. 43:00belonging to the clerical dignitaries of the dynasty and the rest to the relatives of
374. 43:06Emperor Franz Joseph I. Archduke Charles Ferdinand of Austria was born in 1818, the third son
375. 43:17and second son of Archduke Charles. of Austria Teschen and Henriette of Nassau Weilburg. In 1854
376. 43:24he married his first cousin, Archduchess Elizabeth of Austria, with whom he had six children, although
377. 43:30two died in childhood. His daughter María Cristina married the widowed King Alfonso XII of
378. 43:36Spain, so Carlos Fernando was the grandfather of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. He died at the age of 56 in 1874.
379. 43:43Henriette of Nassau Weilburg was born in 1797, the third child of Prince
380. 43:53Frederick William of Nassau Weilburg and Countess Louise of Sayn Hagenburg. In September
381. 44:001815 she married Archduke Charles of Austria, 26 years older than her, being the
382. 44:06first marriage of different religions, since she was Protestant and did not convert to
383. 44:12Catholicism. It was a very happy marriage that produced seven children. Henriette died
384. 44:19of pneumonia in 1829 at only 32 years old. She is responsible for the introduction of the first
385. 44:26Christmas tree decorated with lit candles, a custom unknown in very Catholic
386. 44:31Austria. Enriqueta is also the only person buried in the crypt who was not of the Catholic religion.
387. 44:37Emperor Maximilian of Mexico was born in Vienna in 1832, the second son of
388. 44:46Archduke Charles of Austria and his wife Sofia of Bavaria, who always considered him her
389. 44:52favorite son. He was therefore the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria.
390. 44:57In 1857, Max married Princess Charlotte of Belgium, with whom he had no children.
391. 45:04He was biroy of Lombardy Veneto for two years. Emperor Napoleon III of France tricked him into
392. 45:11accepting the crown of Mexico, which after much convincing on the part of his ambitious
393. 45:16wife, he did in April 1864. The already emperors of Mexico left their much-loved
394. 45:24Miramar Palace in Trieste to their new home on April 14 of that same year. Despite all his good
395. 45:31intentions and trying to do the best for his new subjects, the Mexican adventure ended
396. 45:35only 3 years later. Without the support of France, Max was taken prisoner by the liberals of
397. 45:41Juárez, tried and executed along with his generals Mejía and Miramón in Querétaro on June 19,
398. 45:481867. He was only 34 years old and it was not until January 18, 1868 that their these were
399. 45:57deposited here. Maria Luisa of Austria, familiarly called Luise, was the first-born of the 12
400. 46:05children of Emperor Francis I of Austria and his second wife Maria Theresa of the Two Sicilies.
401. 46:11To bring a necessary peace between Austria and France, Luise married Napoleon Bonaparte
402. 46:17in 1810. The marriage was happy and produced a son, Napoleon Francis, although he died at only
403. 46:2421 years old. After the fall of her husband's power, Luise ceased to be Empress of the French although
404. 46:31she received the dukedoms of Parma, Piacenza and Guastala, moving to Parma where she lived the rest of her
405. 46:37life. After the death of her husband in 1821, Luise married morganatically twice, first with
406. 46:45Count Adam von Neipperg with whom she had several children, two of whom reached adulthood, and after
407. 46:51Neipperg's death she married Count René Charles de Bomballes in 1834. .l died of pleurisy at the age of 56 in 1847.
408. 47:00Matilda of Austria Teschen was born in January 1849, the youngest daughter of Field Marshal Archduke
409. 47:11Albert of Austria Teschen and Princess Hildegard of Bavaria, Sisi's first cousin. The
410. 47:17young woman was betrothed to the crown prince Umberto of Sardinia Piedmont, future king of Italy, although
411. 47:23it seems that she liked the archduke Luis Salvador. On May 22, 1867, she suffered
412. 47:30a terrible accident when, while trying to hide the cigarette she was smoking, her Indian muslin dress
413. 47:35soaked in glycerin caught fire, causing third-degree burns on almost
414. 47:41her entire body. After two weeks of horrible agony, he died on June 6, 1867 at just 18 years old.
415. 47:49This small sarcophagus belongs to a little brother of Francis Joseph, born stillborn
416. 47:57on October 24, 1840, the penultimate son of the archdukes Francis Charles and Sofia who
417. 48:03rest next to him. Archduke Francis Charles was the tenth son and second
418. 48:12male of Emperor Francis I and Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies. Married in 1824 to Princess
419. 48:19Sofia of Bavaria, he abdicated his inheritance rights in favor of his son Franz Joseph in 1848 and died in 1878.
420. 48:27His wife Sofia and her twin Maria Anna were daughters of the future King Maximilian I Joseph of
421. 48:35Bavaria and his second wife Carolina of Baden. A true beauty, she was forced to marry the
422. 48:41weak and submissive Archduke Francisco Carlos, whom she completely dominated. The couple had six
423. 48:46children, the firstborn being the future Emperor Franz Joseph. A woman of iron character although
424. 48:51not evil as she is always represented, she died in 1872 at the age of 67. Archduke Charles Louis
425. 48:59of Austria was the third of the children of Archdukes Francis Charles and Sophia. He was the father
426. 49:05of Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose assassination in Sarajevo started the First World War. His
427. 49:12three wives rest in the Imperial Crista. Princess Margaret of Saxony was his first
428. 49:19wife. She was the daughter of King John I of Saxony and Amalia of Bavaria, sister of the Archduchess Sofia.
429. 49:26She married Carlos Luis in 1856 but died of typhus only two years later without having had
430. 49:32children and at only 18 years old. His second wife was Princess María Anunciada of Borbón dos Sicilias.
431. 49:41daughter of King Ferdinand of the Two Sicilies and Maria Theresa of Austria Teschen. Married in 1862 the
432. 49:47couple had four children. the first-born Franz Ferdinand murdered in Sarajevo and the second Otto
433. 49:54Franz who was the father of the last emperor of Austria. Mary Announced died of tuberculosis
434. 50:00at the age of 28 in 1871. The third wife was the Infanta María Teresa of Portugal, daughter of King
435. 50:08Michael I of Portugal and Adelaide of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. Married in 1873, they had two daughters
436. 50:17and named the first María Anunciada in honor of Carlos Luis's second wife. María Teresa
437. 50:22survived her husband by 48 years, dying in 1944 at the age of 88. Archduke Otto Francis
438. 50:30was the second son of Archduke Charles Louis of Austria and his second wife Maria Annunciada of
439. 50:35Bourbon Two Sicilies. Married to Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, he had two children, of whom the
440. 50:42eldest son, Charles, would be the last emperor of Austria-Hungary. An inveterate womanizer, he died a
441. 50:49slow and painful death from syphilis at just 41 years old. His wife María Josefa of Saxony
442. 50:57was the fifth of the children of the future King George I of Saxony and the Infanta María Ana
443. 51:01de Braganza. She married Archduke Oto of Austria, nicknamed the Beautiful, in 1886, with whom she would have two
444. 51:09children, the firstborn being the future Blessed Emperor Charles I of Austria, who received his
445. 51:15deep religious faith from her. This plaque commemorates the first victims of the First World War.
446. 51:22Archduke Franz Ferdinand, eldest son of Archduke Charles Louis of Austria, and his wife
447. 51:28Duchess Sofia of Hohenberg, both murdered in Sarajevo and resting in the crypt of their
448. 51:33beloved Artstteten Palace. This is the crypt of Franz Joseph. In 1908 and on the occasion
449. 51:43of the 60th anniversary of his reign, Emperor Franz Joseph I had
450. 51:49additional rooms in the monastery's basement included in the crypt and commissioned the construction of a chapel and a worthy mausoleum
451. 51:54for himself and his wife the Empress Elizabeth, Sisi, and Crown Prince Rudolf. Once the
452. 52:01crypt was finished and the chapel continued, the coffins of Isabel and Rudolph, which were originally placed in
453. 52:06Ferdinand's crypt, were moved to this crypt. The coffin of little Sofia, the first-born
454. 52:13of the emperors and who died when she was barely two years old, was here with her parents and
455. 52:17her brother until the reform of the 60s when she was taken to a niche in the wall in
456. 52:23Fernando's crypt. Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, the eternal emperor as he was called because his
457. 52:30reign was the fourth longest in European history, was born on August 18, 1830, son
458. 52:37of Archduke Franz Charles of Austria and Archduchess Sofia, born Princess
459. 52:42of Bavaria. After the abdication of his uncle Emperor Ferdinand I and his father Francisco
460. 52:47Carlos, Francisco José ascended the throne in 1848 at just 18 years old. He married his cousin
461. 52:56Duchess Isabel in Bavaria, Sisi, in 1854, with whom he had four children, although the first-born died at
462. 53:03only 2 years old. His long reign coincided with a difficult historical period of wars and changes.
463. 53:10On June 8, 1867, he and his wife were crowned kings of Hungary after the creation
464. 53:16of the ausgleich. Shortly after, his brother Maximilian was executed in Mexico and in January 1889
465. 53:24the worst came with the tragic loss in very strange circumstances of his only son and heir to the
466. 53:29empire. He also had to suffer the loss of his beloved wife and his nephew and heir at the hands
467. 53:35of terrorists and had to sign the declaration of war that meant one of the worst
468. 53:41armed conflicts in history. At the age of 86 and after 68 years of reign, Francisco José died in the same
469. 53:48Palace in which he was born and with him died an era and an empire. Empress Elisabeth of Austria,
470. 53:56known worldwide as Sisi, was born on December 24, 1837 in Munich, fourth of the children
471. 54:04of Duke Maximilian in Bavaria and Duchess Ludovica in Bavaria, born princess of Bavaria.
472. 54:11At just 16 years old, she married her first cousin, Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria, in April
473. 54:171854. The couple would have four children, although the first, Sofia, died in childhood, which
474. 54:25marked Sisi forever. He never became accustomed to the rigid court etiquette and stayed away as much as possible
475. 54:32for most of his life. Thanks to her love for Hungary, in 1867 she obtained the
476. 54:38ausgleich and she and her husband were crowned kings of Hungary. beautiful as an angel, intelligent
477. 54:46, mysterious, extravagant and contradictory Sisii was the Empress who never wanted to be. tireless traveler
478. 54:51, aimless seagull, she became "matter dolorous" in January 1889 after the
479. 54:58never really clarified death of her only son and heir to the empire, Crown Prince Rudolph
480. 55:04in the so-called Mayerling tragedy. Sisi met his death at the age of 60 in September 1898 in
481. 55:11Geneva, Switzerland, at the hands of an Italian anarchist who stabbed him in the heart with a file. Just like
482. 55:18what happened to her son, she rests in the last place she wanted to be. Rudolph of Habsburg was born
483. 55:26on August 21, 1858, son of Emperor Franz Joseph and Sisi. With a curious, dreamy and highly intelligent character
484. 55:33, very similar to his mother, the military education to which he was subjected
485. 55:40from the age of 7 ended up traumatizing him for life. He adored his mother although he almost never saw her,
486. 55:46although it was she who, intervening for the first and only time, freed him from his rigid and almost sadistic
487. 55:52educators to give him a more liberal education. In May 1888 he married Princess Stephanie
488. 55:59of Belgium with whom he would only have one daughter since, as a great womanizer, he infected his wife with a
489. 56:05venereal disease that left her sterile. He died in very strange circumstances at the Mayerling hunting lodge
490. 56:11near Vienna on the night of January 29 to 30, 1889 with his young 17-
491. 56:19year-old lover, Baroness Mary Vetsera. The official version is that it was a suicide due to the
492. 56:27heir's mental derangement at the time, but who knows. Rodolfo was only 30 years old and left behind a 7-year-old orphan,
493. 56:37parents broken by pain, a widow and an empire without the only direct heir who would forever
494. 56:43wonder what could have been. and we arrive at the last room called the crypt chapel or
495. 56:52memorial room of Emperor Charles. Built at the same time as the crypt of Franz Joseph in
496. 56:57secessionist style, it houses the sarcophagi of the last Empress of Austria-Hungary and two of her
497. 57:03sons along with their respective wives, as well as a commemorative bust of the blessed Emperor Charles I
498. 57:08of Austria who rests in Madeira . Blessed Charles I of Austria was the eldest son of Archduke
499. 57:16Otto of Austria and Maria Josepha of Saxony and was raised under his mother's fervent Catholic faith. In
500. 57:231911 he married Zita de Borbón y Parma, as religious or more so than him and with a strong character, with whom he had
501. 57:29eight children, although Carlos never met his last daughter. He became the last emperor
502. 57:35of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in November 1916 in the middle of the World War, although he had to go into
503. 57:41exile just two years later without ever abdicating his throne. A few months after arriving in
504. 57:47his exile in Madeira, Carlos fell ill with pneumonia and died at only 34 years old on April 1,
505. 57:531922, leaving his wife pregnant and responsible for seven other children. Due to his tireless struggle to
506. 58:01achieve peace, his unwavering Christian faith and his exemplary Christian life, he was beatified in Rome.
507. 58:08on October 3, 2004 by Pope John Paul II. He rests in the church of Our Lady of the Mount
508. 58:15in Funchal where he remains at the express wish of his family as a thank you to the people
509. 58:21who also received him and helped him. Here we have the last Empress of Austria-Hungary Zita of
510. 58:29Bourbon and Parma who was the daughter of the last Duke of Parma Robert I and Maria Antonia of Braganza.
511. 58:36Zita who grew up with her 23 siblings. She married Archduke Charles of Austria in 1911, second
512. 58:44in line to the throne, and together they had eight children, although the last, Elizabeth, was born two months
513. 58:50after her father's death. After the attack in Sarajevo and the death of Emperor Franz Joseph,
514. 58:56Zita and Carlos ascended the throne in 1916 in the middle of the First World War and had to go
515. 59:03into exile just two years later in November 1918. A pregnant widow at the age of 28 and with
516. 59:10seven children in her care, she was a woman of exemplary life who, after her death in 1989 at the age of 96,
517. 59:18led her to be declared a servant of God by Pope Benedict XV and to be in the process of beatification.
518. 59:26During her funeral on April 1, 1989, just 67 years after her husband's death,
519. 59:33the spectacular Habsburg funeral carriage was used for the last time. I visited the crypt in January 2023
520. 59:40so you can still see an empty place that was reserved for Princess Yolande de Ligne
521. 59:44who died on September 1 of that year and was brought to the crypt on October 7,
522. 59:50being the last burial she will have. place here. The first of the three remaining sarcophagi is that of
523. 59:57Archduke Charles Louis, fifth son and fourth son of the couple formed by Emperor
524. 1:00:02Charles and Empress Zita. Otto of Habsburg, eldest son of the last emperors of Austria
525. 1:00:10and therefore last crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, married Princess Regina
526. 1:00:18of Saxony Meiningen in 1951, with whom he had seven children. Otto was a politician, journalist and writer, member of the
527. 1:00:26European Parliament for the CSU party and president of the Pan-European International Union. He wrote 35
528. 1:00:34books in nine languages ​​in addition to collaborating with newspapers, magazines and other publications.
529. 1:00:39He died on July 4, 2011 in his sleep and was buried with head of state honors.
530. 1:00:47Lastly, Princess Regina of Saxony Meiningen, daughter of the former Hereditary Prince George
531. 1:00:53of Saxony Meiningen and Countess Clara Maria Von Korf, rests here. Seven children were born from her marriage to Otto of Habsburg. Regina
532. 1:01:02died on February 3, 2010 and was buried in the Veste Heldburg crypt until her husband's death
533. 1:01:09, and they were buried together here on July 16, 2011, although her heart remained in Heldburg.
534. 1:01:17Travelers, before leaving the crypt I want to talk to you about this Madonna. This statue was
535. 1:01:27part of a magnificent funerary monument that was donated by a committee of Hungarian ladies created a
536. 1:01:32few days after Sisi's funeral. The committee did not think that their queen's burial place
537. 1:01:38had the necessary magnificence, so for two years they raised funds for
538. 1:01:44the creation of a monument in her honor. Once the money was obtained, the artist Gyorgy Zalla was asked
539. 1:01:50to create the monument, since he had also created the monument
540. 1:01:56in honor of the queen in Budapest that was next to the bridge that bears her name. Once
541. 1:02:02the monument was completed, it was inaugurated on August 25, 1900, with the presence of
542. 1:02:08Sisi's ladies-in-waiting Ida Ferenczy and Irma Sztaray, who also belonged to the committee. The monument
543. 1:02:16was intended to be between the sarcophagi of Sisi and his son Rodolfo but it was moved.
544. 1:02:22In 1916 after the death of Emperor Franz Joseph I. As you can see in the image, for a time
545. 1:02:29it was also in Ferdinand's crypt next to it. from the tomb of Emperor Ferdinand I
546. 1:02:33and good travelers, I hope you have enjoyed this visit to
547. 1:02:40the Imperial crypt of the Capuchins here in Vienna, perhaps you have learned
548. 1:02:44something new and I will see you in the next video, greetings!