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The only stipulation he made was that her trousseau should be completed a week before the wedding, which was to take place in the Capuchin Church on the fifteenth of October.
Near fragment in time
Um Indizien zu sammeln, wollte ich meine Großmutter besuchen und ging, da die Sonne schien, den Weg in die Heumühlgasse zu Fuß. Im Waldmüllerpark, und zwar in der Nähe des Friedhofs, wurde mir in frappanter Weise bewusst, wie groß die Kerzen an den Kastanienbäumen schon waren. Natürlich war mir das alle Jahre wieder aufgefallen, aber es war mir noch nie so bewußt geworden wie jetzt. Und dann hatte ich plötzlich das Bedürfnis, meine frühesten Erinnerungen nach meinem Vater zu durchsuchen.
pp 27 from Die keine Figur meines Vaters by
Near fragment in space
Outwardly the Capuchin Church is a narrow, faded building, squeezed in between others on the west side of the Neuermarkt. Inside, too, it is austere with only the dark brown of the marquetry work behind the altar for decoration.
But to walk down the aisle of the Capuchin Church is to walk on the whole history of the Empire, for below in the crypt lie the bodies of all the Habsburgs who have ruled over Austria. Maria Theresia lies there in a vast sarcophagus, entwined in statuary with her husband, and Leopold I who saved us from the Turks. Crown Prince Rudolf sleeps in the crypt, wept over by parties of tourists; and Napoleon's sad little son, the King of Rome whose cradle they adorned with a
thousand golden bees to bring him luck and happiness, but to no avail.
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But to walk down the aisle of the Capuchin Church is to walk on the whole history of the Empire, for below in the crypt lie the bodies of all the Habsburgs who have ruled over Austria. Maria Theresia lies there in a vast sarcophagus, entwined in statuary with her husband, and Leopold I who saved us from the Turks. Crown Prince Rudolf sleeps in the crypt, wept over by parties of tourists; and Napoleon's sad little son, the King of Rome whose cradle they adorned with a
thousand golden bees to bring him luck and happiness, but to no avail.
