2h
up to 15 people
HIGHLIGHTS
Spittelau waste incineration plant
Alsergrund neighborhood garden
Floating gardens
Spittelau is the site of the waste incineration plant designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser until 1992. Hundertwasser’s work, which was highly controversial at the time, now stands for environmentally friendly district heating and cooling rather than toxic exhaust fumes. The forecourt of the plant and the façade of Vienna’s “Greener Linien” have been greened, and a modern Mobility Point is available for passengers on the U4 and U6 underground lines and the Franz-Josephs-Bahn.
The landscape along the Danube Canal became a popular motif for Hundertwasser’s first drawings and watercolors. He spent his youth in a house near the Siemens-Nixdorf-Steg. The crossing from Roßauer Lände to Obere Donaustraße was his favorite place, it strengthened his longing for the wide open sea.
The “Floating Gardens” are an approx. 1500 m² park designed by Carla Lo 2020 above the former Kaiserbad lock. On the opposite side of the Danube Canal we see Otto Wagner’s blue and white Schützenhaus.
