The prince, who struggled with lung problems from an early age and eventually contracted tuberculosis, died in 1832 at the age of 21 at Schönbrunn Palace. In the room where the prince lived and died, there is his death mask and a preserved chubby lark, which was his beloved bird.
The prince’s body was preserved and buried in the imperial crypt under the Capuchin Church in Vienna. His heart was buried in the Habsburg crypt (the Loretto Crypt in the Augustinian Church in Vienna) and his entrails in the prince’s crypt of St. Stephen’s Cathedral.
