The Rathauspark
Rathaus Park was intended as a city park for Viennese residents. In 1863 Emperor Franz Joseph I did away with the parade ground that existed at the site and commissioned city gardener Dr Rudolf Siebeck to design the park. The park Siebeck designed had few formal features to create an intentional contrast with the austere, monumental buildings in the vicinity (National Theatre, University, Parliament, City Hall).
Position: 1., between Rathaus and Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring
Public Traffic: U2, Train no. 1, 2, D, J
The Stadtpark
The City Park in Vienna meets every expectation of an "artificial landscape in the city". Court painter Joseph Selleny and garden director Rudolf Siebeck designed a municipal park where alternating small copses and grassy areas created a unique and varied setting.
Position: between 1., Parkring and 3., Am Heumarkt
To reach with: U3, U4, train No.1, 2, bus 74A
The Turkenschanzpark
Turkenschanz Park on the outskirts of Vienna is a park that is important both in botanical terms and because of its layout. This park is also one of the earliest examples of public/private partnership in Vienna: Turkenschanz Park was built by local citizens together with the neighbouring "Wiener Cottage" settlement and was only later taken over by the city.
Position: 18., between Peter-Jordan-Stra?e, Gregor-Mendel-Stra?e, Hasenauerstra?e and Max-Emanuel-Stra?e
To reach with: train no. 41, bus 10A, 40A
Cemetery of St. Mark
Mozart's Grave
This public green area covers about 6 hectares and lies in a remote area of the city in a curve of the south-east ring motorway. Various mysteries surround the former cemetery, making it ideal for a reflective or melancholic walk. The current address is Leberstrasse 6-8, Vienna 11.
The cemetery was closed in 1874, at a time when almost all the existing gravestones were from the Biedermeier period. Mozart is said to have been buried here in a mass grave, but the exact site of his burial can no longer be identified.
Position: 3., Leberstrasse 6 - 8
To reach with: tram 18, 71: Landstrasser Hauptstrasse / Rennweg, bus 74A: Hofmannsthalgasse
Central Cemetery
When Vienna grew into a city of more than one million inhabitants, the old cemeteries of the various districts became to small. To accommodate the growing capital, the Central Cemetery, with an area of about 495 acres, was opened in 1874.
Position: 11., Simmeringer Hauptstrasse 234
To reach with: tram 6, 71: Zentralfriedhof
phone 760 41
The Potzleinsdorfer Schlosspark
Potzleinsdorf Palace Park in Vienna's 18th district is one of the most beautiful gardens in Vienna. Countess Philippina von Herberstein had her gardener Seyfried plant the original gardens on the slopes of the Vienna Woods in 1767. In 1797 Johann Heinrich Freiherr von Geymuller bought the gardens.
Position: 18., Potzleinsdorfer Stra?e/Geymullergasse
Public Traffic: Train No. 41, Bus 41A
Vienna Prater
Many people regard the Vienna Prater as just another fun-fair. But it's much more than that: it's a Viennese institution, like the coffee houses or the Heuriger (wine taverns). Its landmark, and one of Vienna's too, is the 65 metre high Giant Ferris Wheel. It towers over the 200 booths in the Prater, the ghost train, go-karts and grotto railways, the merry-go-rounds and fruit-machine halls, throwing and shooting galleries.
The wonders of the heavens await you in the Planetarium. And in the Prater Museum you can re-live the greatest moments of this fun-fair. Incidentally: each booth in the Vienna Prater is an independent enterprise - which is why you don't have to pay an admission charge to enter the Prater, and also why the various attractions in the Prater don't have uniform opening times.
Opening times for most of the attractions in the Prater are from the beginning of March to the end of October - from morning to midnight. Some attractions (ghost trains and grotto railways, dodgems, cafes and restaurants) are open throughout the year.
Position: 2., Prater, Hauptallee
(at the Planetarium)
To reach with: U1, tram O, 5, 21: Praterstern,
S1-S3, S7, S15: Wien Nord
phone 726 76 83
Schweizer Garten
The Maria Josefa Park was built in 1903/04 near the Southern Railroad Station, between the newly constructed Armoury and the old Belvedere Palace. It covers 11.4 hectares and has been redesigned on several occasions; today a road runs through it. In days gone by, this was a railway stockyard, today the park appeals to visitors because of its surprising differences in altitude.
Position: 3., between Landstra?er Gurtel, Ghegastra?e and Arsenalstra?e
To reach with: S1, S2, S3, S15, S60, S80, train No. 18, D, O, bus 13A, 69A
The Kurpark Oberlaa
"From wilderness to a new recreation area for southern Vienna" was the motto of the second Vienna International Garden Show in 1974. The garden show gave the Viennese authorities the unique opportunity of creating a large green area adjoining the gardens of Oberlaa health resort. Thermal sulphur springs were discovered in Oberlaa back in the eighteenth century. Visitors can now "take the waters" at the heart of an extensive park.
Position: 10., between Kurbadstra?e, Laaer-Berg-Stra?e and Filmteichstra?e
Public Traffic: Train No. 67, Bus 68A
The Donaupark
Under the auspices of the 1964 Vienna International Garden Show, a generous park area was created in 1963-64 on an island between the Danube and the Old Danube, between the centre of Vienna and the districts of Florisdorf and Donaustadt. The object of the exercise was gradually to clean up the existing site: a rubbish dump, a former parade ground that was a notorious site of executions during the Nazi years, and the "Bretteldorf" squatters' settlements.
Position: 22., between Arbeiterstrandbadstraúe, Donauturmstra?e and Am Hubertusdamm
Public Traffic: U1 (Stations Alte Donau or Kaisermuehlen/VIC
The Herderpark
Herder Park in Vienna;s eleventh district was built by the management office of Vienna's Parks and Gardens Department under the direction of Fritz Kratochwjle. Two of the main reasons for its creation were the unsatisfactory living conditions and the inadequate provision of space in the outer districts of the city. Its design is architectonic, based on a school building in the eastern part of the park.
Position: 11., between Herderplatz, Am Kanal and Zehetbauergasse
Public Traffic: Stra?enbahn 6, Autobus 15A, 69A
The Kongresspark
This park near Sandleiten residential complex was built in 1928 at the same time as the Congress Pool and was one of the major social projects of the Twenties.
Position: 16., between Liebknechtgasse, Sandleitengasse and Lobmeyrgasse
To reach with: train 10, 44
The Japanese Garden / Setagaya Park
Setagaya Park was designed by landscape gardener Prof. Ken Nakajima from Japan in 1992. Twincity and cultural agreements have existed for many years between Vienna's Dubling district and Setagaya, a suburb of Tokyo. The park was laid out near a retirement home. Setagaya Park emulates a Japanese landscape with several ponds and streams, and it contains the densely-planted garden elements that are typical of Japanese gardens.
Position: 19., Hohe Warte / Gallmeyergasse
To reach with: Train No. 37, Bus 10A
