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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.
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.
Near fragment in time
Sie fuhren mit Leos altem VW-Käfer in eine Pizzeria im siebenten Bezirk, die Leo kannte, weil er ganz in der Nähe, in der Schottenfeldgasse, wohnte.
pp 18 from Selige Zeiten, brüchige Welt by
Near fragment in space
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.
pp 38 from Madensky Square by