"RECTA. TVERI. Protecting rights."
Inscription on the pedestal of the sarcophagus of Emperor Ferdinand I., known as ‘the Benevolent’
To the north of the Franz Vault lies the somewhat austere Ferdinand Vault. The high-ceilinged central niche was built in 1842 at the same time as the new monastery, which had fallen into disrepair, was commissioned by Emperor Ferdinand I.
The niches are now bricked up, with only four marble plaques revealing the names of the 37 Habsburgs who were buried here in a large-scale reburial operation in 1960 to alleviate the lack of space in the Tuscan Vault. In the crypt itself, Emperor Ferdinand I. (N°62) and his wife Maria Anna (N°63) are buried in magnificent sarcophagi.
Personalities
in the Ferdinand Vault