Aficionados of Vienna’s Secessionist movement will want to make the pilgrimage to the Hietzinger cemetery to pay homage to some of its greatest members. Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser and Otto Wagner are all buried here. Others buried in the cemetery include composer Alban Berg.
Hietzinger Friedhof
Vienna
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