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Bad Ischl Friedhof is the town cemetery of Bad Ischl in Austria. It is on the State of Upper Austria's list of protected historical sites.
The cemetery was originally located at the Church of St. Nikolaus. In 1719 it was moved to its present location on Grazer Straße where it is laid out on land behind the Sebastiankapelle. The Sebastiankapelle (Saint Sebastian's chapel) was built in 1692 by Johann Lidl von Lidlsheim in gratitude to Saint Sebastian for his family's escape from the plague. Johann Lidle and his second wife are thought to be buried beneath its altar. Later members of the family are buried in the Friedhof. Like the cemetery behind it, the chapel is on the list of protected historical sites in Upper Austria.
There are many notable burials in the cemetery, including the writer Hilde Spiel, who once called it "the most beautiful place in the world."
Notable burials
People buried in the Bad Ischl Friedhof include:
Helmut Berger (1944–2023), actor
Karl Andreas Bernbrunn (1787–1854), actor and theatre director
Rudi Gfaller (1882–1972), composer
Leopold Hasner von Artha (1818–1891), Austrian statesman
Heinrich Lammasch (1853–1920), jurist and the last Minister-President of Austria
Franz Lehár (1870–1948), composer
Stefan Meyer (1872–1949), physicist
Leo Perutz (1882–1957), writer
Josef Plieseis (1913–1966), resistance fighter
Hilde Spiel (1911–1990), writer
Oscar Straus (1870–1954), composer
Spas Wenkoff (1928–2013), opera singer
Therese Wiet (1885–1971), operetta singer
There is also a memorial near the grave of Franz Lehár for the Austrian tenor Richard Tauber (1891–1948) who is buried in London.
References
External links
Media related to Friedhof Bad Ischl at Wikimedia Commons