‘I do not wish to perish in the valley, my last view restricted by constraint: I wish to die on a mountain, at a golden sunset.’
Poem by Emperor Maximilian of Mexico
The New Vault was built between 1960 and 1962 in the realistic style of the 1960s beneath the monastery garden. Its raw concrete walls give the impression of an excavated grave.
Through regrouping in the Capuchin Crypt, it houses 26 sarcophagi from three centuries, thus relieving the cramped crypt. The coffins of the ecclesiastical dignitaries from the Habsburg dynasty were placed on the narrow western side, while the parents and relatives of Emperor Franz Joseph I. (N°142) were placed on the narrow eastern side.
Personalities
in the New Vault