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(Local Name: Kapuzinerkirche) The Capuchin Church in Vienna, dedicated to Our Lady of the Angels, is as befits a Mendicant Order vowed to poverty, modest, sober and almost totally lacking in ornamentation. Nothing visible reminds us that it was founded by an empress (Empress Anna) in 1618. The most precious work of art in the church is a "Pietà" near the altar in the right-hand transept. It is by Peter von Strudel, the Founder of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Hobbies & Activities category: Significant work of art;  Christian sites
Attractions within Capuchin Church

Imperial Vault

On the left-hand side of the Kapuzinerkirche (church) in Vienna is the entrance to the Imperial Vault. Beneath the Church of the Capuchins is the Habsburg family vault where 138 members of the
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Caroline Vault

Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt designed the sarcophagi for Leopold I (d. 1704) and for Joseph I (d. 1711) in the Caroline Vault. B. F. Moll designed the sarcophagus of Charles VI (d.1740); a
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Chapel

The Chapel in the Imperial Vault in Vienna has a memorial tablet to Emperor Charles I, the last Emperor of Austria. He died in exile on the Portuguese island of Madeira in 1922.

Ferdinand Vault

Ferdinand I, the Kindly, who died in 1875 and whose coffin stands on a pedestal, shares this chamber with 37 other members of the Habsburg family who are placed in niches in the walls.

Founder's Vault

Emperor Matthias, who died in 1619, and Empress Anna, who died in 1618, are considered to be the inaugurators of the family vault. Originally they were laid to rest in the monastery of St Dorothea,
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Francis II Vault

The last emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Francis II, who died in 1835, lies in the Francis II Vault surrounded by the graves of his four consorts. The Classical copper coffin is the work of Peter Nobile.

Franz Joseph Vault

In the Franz Joseph Vault, established in 1909, are buried Emperor Franz Joseph I (d. 1916), Crown Prince Rudolf, who committed suicide in the hunting lodge at Mayerling in 1889, Empress Elisabeth (
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Leopoldine Vault

The Leopoldine Vault is called the Angel Vault for among the 16 bronze caskets are 12 in which children were laid to rest. Ferdinand III, who died in 1657, is also buried here. Balthasar Ferdinand
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Maria Theresa Vault

Jean-Nicholas Jadot de Ville Issey designed the domed chamber dominated by Moll's masterly double sarcophagus in the Roccoco style for Maria Theresa, who died in 1780, and for Francis I, who died
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New Vault

The New Vault was created between 1960 and 1962 and contains the sarcophagi of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico who was executed in 1867 and Marie Louise, Napoleon's wife, who died in 1847. The body of
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Tuscan Vault

The Tuscan Vault for members of the Tuscan collateral branch of the Habsburg House is at present being altered.
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Capuchin Church
Tegetthoffstrasse 2
Wien
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