Introduction
The former "Währinger Allgemeiner Friedhof" (Währing municipal cemetery), established in 1784 under Emperor Joseph II in Vienna's 18th district, was transformed into a park (“Währinger Park”) in 1923 after its final closure in 1907 due to capacity limitations. In the now heavily used public park, only a small collection of historical gravestones remains as a reminder of Vienna's former largest municipal cemetery. Scientific interest in the former cemetery has increased in recent years, highlighted by a dissertation (Pototschnig, 2017) and a rescue excavation (Huber & Traunmüller, 2003). Despite some insights gained, key questions about the cemetery’s extent, internal organization, and subsurface remains remain unresolved. This project, conducted by students from the University of Vienna, combined a large scale non-invasive geophysical prospection via Ground-Penetrating...


