Stadt Park or Der Wiener Stadtpark or The Vienna City Park.- Vienna Austria - ECTV

The Vienna City Park stretches from the Parkring in Vienna's 1st district to Heumarkt in Vienna's 3rd district and is a Viennese park that is popular with both tourists and local citizens. Its area is 65,000 m².
Even in the Biedermeier era, the Wasserglacis in front of the Caroline City Gate was a popular entertainment venue. In the course of the redesign into Vienna's Ringstrasse due to the demolition of the Vienna city wall, the project of a public park on this site was promoted by the then mayor of Vienna, Andreas Zelinka. In September 1860, the City Expansion Fund handed over an area of 94,000 m² to the City of Vienna free of charge for the creation of the city park; In 1861, 51,000 m² were added on the right bank of the Vienna River. For the design of the park on the left bank, the cost estimate was 115,000 guilders; in fact, in 1862 it became 180,000 guilders (approx. 1.6 million euros).
This park in the style of English landscape parks was planned by the landscape painter Joseph Sellény, the planning was revised and carried out by the city gardener Rudolph Siebeck. On 21 August 1862, the northern part of the city park was opened, including the Park-Salon, a refreshment establishment of the coffee brewer Heinrich Wilda (1821-1903) with space for 300 guests in an open space,[note 1]. [1] According to other sources, large parts of the city park were open to the public from August 1862 onwards, without an official opening. [2] The Stadtpark was the second municipal park in Vienna after the Franz-Josefs-Park on Franz-Josefs-Kai, which no longer exists.
On the right bank of the Vienna River, the so-called Children's Park was built in 1863, today mainly characterized by asphalt playgrounds and sports facilities, which is connected to the city park on the left bank via the city park footbridge. From the winter of 1867/68, the pond in the park was converted into an ice skating rink every year, which could be used for an entrance fee of 30 crowns. Since many working people could only skate ice in the evening, electric lighting was installed in 1870. In 1871, the ice rink was given to the tenant of the Kursalon. [3]
In the years 1903 to 1907, after the regulation, a Vienna River barrier with the river portal, pavilions and riverside stairs was built in the park area after the regulation, which is one of the sights in the park.
In earlier times, visitors to the park had to pay fees for staying in erected armchairs, which were demanded from the so-called armchair women. This visitor service, operated by a private company, ended in 1956. [4]
Since 1891, the designers of the park have been commemorated by Sellenygasse in the 2nd district of Leopoldstadt and since 1960 by Siebeckstraße in the 22nd district of Donaustadt.
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