Simmering, Vienna
Simmering is the 11th district of
Vienna, the capital of
Austria. It is the part of town travellers arriving at
Schwechat Airport invariably have to cross on their way to the city. Simmering's most striking feature is probably the largest
cemetery in Vienna, the
Zentralfriedhof, opened in
1874, with lots of
Ehrengräber (
Brahms,
Beethoven,
Schönberg,
Schubert and "the waltz king"
Johann Strauß are interred there).
See also simmering (cooking technique).