2h
up to 15 people
HIGHLIGHTS
Campus of the University of Vienna
Viktor-Frankl-Park
Grätzelgarten 9 near the Narrenturm
Strudelhofstiege
Liechtensteinpark
Our walk starts in the middle of courtyard 1, at the “water pipe fountain” monument, and leads us through other courtyards of the former Old General Hospital to the Japanese garden Seigaiha Teien (Japanese for “garden of blue sea waves”). Since 1998, the campus of the University of Vienna has been open to the public as a green oasis close to Vienna’s city center. The old trees provide magnificent shade for visitors in summer.
We then visit Viktor-Frankl-Park, an oasis of authentic urban wilderness and the ideal place to present the “Grätzlspaziergänge” project of the “Quiet places on Alsergrund” agenda group. Steps lead to Lazarettgasse, under which the Alserbach flows. This was of great importance for the urban development of the Alsergrund districts. Without its abundance of water, neither the Old General Hospital nor the baroque Liechtenstein Park would have been built on its banks. On our exploration tour through the 9th district, this Wienerwald stream and its visible slopes “accompany” us to Grätzelgarten 9 near the “Narrenturm”, to the Sensengasse urban wilderness and on to Arne Karlsson Park.
At the end of the climate walk, we will descend the Strudelhofstiege, immortalized in literature by Heimito von Doderer in 1910, to reach Palais Liechtenstein and the park behind it. We will analyze the fitness of the historic gardens for the changing urban climate and also see and walk through interesting new public and private projects.
