St Stephen's Crypt

It was with good fortune that we noticed inside St Stephen's that they had a crypt tour and at that very moment it was commencing as a large crowd were making their way down some steps. We followed a tour guide who perfectly blended German and English to give us a historical tour of the crypt below which contains coffins of previous archbishops but also the innards of other churchmen and finally the gory dark caverns stacked with thousands of bones and skulls of plague victims. Something like 10-20,000 people were interred here from the 18th century until the decaying bodies began to poison the ground. Our exit was just behind the cathedral as a doorway was opened out of the ground. This was a nice surprise in a largely unplanned day.