Richard Lugner

How people are already mourning at his final resting place

On Saturday, the local society will bid farewell to Richard Lugner.

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It will be construction magnate Richard Lugner's last journey when the funeral services end on Saturday with his burial in Vienna's Grinzing district. The schedule has been meticulously planned. Emotional, final greetings to the Viennese original can already be found at his final resting place.

On Saturday, Richard Lugner (he passed away on August 12) will begin his final journey. The laying out will take place in St. Stephen's Cathedral (from 8 a.m.), where he and Priscilla Presley visited the cathedral priest Toni Faber this year. It is expected that many friends such as Gerda Rogers, the Worseg family of doctors, or Edith Leyrer and companions (including some, but not all of the little animals) will then be present at the subsequent funeral service (from 9 am).

Richard Lugner will begin his final journey on Saturday. The first candles have already been placed at the cemetery, silent witnesses to the great sympathy of many people.

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Burial in silence
The funeral procession will set off at 10 a.m. and travel along the Ring (past the State Opera) to Lugner City at around three-quarters past noon. When the public part of the ceremony comes to an end, the family will travel on to the Kaasgraben Church to bid farewell to the head of the family, father and husband in the closest of circles. The funeral will then also take place in Döbling. In silence.

"A silent greeting"
A few candles have already been placed at his final resting place. They send Richard Lugner messages. One of them bears the inscription "A silent greeting" - synonymous with the kind of quiet, private farewell that a man deserves, even if he himself always loved the hype, but above all his surviving relatives.