"SED BREVIS DIES. HOMINIS. SVNT. ET. IVDICIA. DEI. ABYSSVS. But man's days are short, and God's judgments are a deep abyss."
Sarcophagus inscription of Archduke Ferdinand Karl Anton
At the same time as the Ferdinand Vault, the elongated Tuscan Vault was built by court architect Johann Höhne. The name comes from the Habsburg-Tuscany branch of the family founded by Emperor Franz I. Stephan.
The crypt, which contains almost fifty coffins, originally resembled an unsightly coffin depot. Today, due to the addition of the New Vault and the reburial of numerous bodies in the wall niches of the Ferdinand Vault, it now houses only 14 simply crafted sarcophagi.
Personalities
in the Tuscan Vault