From the famous waffle slices to Austria’s most popular postcard motif, St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna is arguably Austria’s landmark par excellence. In this series, we present Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral in a way never seen before: Michaela Obermayer and Reinhard Bengesser take you on a 3D flight through the entire building, visit places with you that are otherwise inaccessible, and travel with you through the history of the building. But the stories surrounding St. Stephen’s Cathedral also play a central role, telling us about religion, customs and tradition, but also about power and politics, which made St. Stephen’s Cathedral a companion of Austria’s destiny.
Episode 4: An Emperor can not go to his grave
Emperor Frederick III had to wait 20 years until he could finally move into his final resting place. Where it is, what the sequence of letters AEIOU is all about, and what a chasuble of the archbishop has to do with the high altar is revealed in this episode.
Friedrich III.: Photo: KHM-Museumsverband https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000110780306/friedrich-iii-im-stephansdom-die-endoskopie-des-kaisers
