The Bad Ischl Cemetery, a designated historic landmark, is located in the Reiterndorf district and is operated by the Bad Ischl parish.
Originally, the cemetery was located near the St. Nicholas Parish Church and was moved to St. Sebastian’s Chapel in 1719, and between 1960 and 1965, 60 new crypts were built. The Bad Ischl Cemetery contains numerous graves and crypts of prominent figures, including the composers Franz Lehár, Joseph Ramsauer, and Oscar Straus.
Along the path running westward is the “blessing site,” surrounded by hedges. On a platform stand an altar table and the cemetery cross; this is where the burial chapel of the Sickingen-Hohenburg count’s family stood from 1856 to 1968. This mausoleum was modeled after an ancient temple, with its entrance flanked by two Doric columns. Toward the end of World War II, several graves of war dead or soldiers who had died in military hospitals were laid out around the mausoleum, including that of Wolfram von Richthofen.
