Prater
District of Vienna
in Wien Stadt of Vienna, Austria
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Vienna International Airport (11 mi) -
M. R. Štefánik Airport (39 mi) -
Brno-Tuřany Airport (67 mi) - Piešťany Airport (73 mi)
- Kunovice Airport (75 mi)
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Győr-Pér International Airport (78 mi) - Holešov Airport (94 mi)
- Graz Airport (95 mi)
- Ruzyně International Airport (162 mi)
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Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (164 mi) -
Zagreb Airport (171 mi)
- Historic Centre of Vienna (Unesco heritage, 1 mi)
- Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn (Unesco heritage, 3 mi)
- Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape (Unesco heritage, 37 mi)
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape (Unesco heritage, 43 mi)
- Wachau Cultural Landscape (Unesco heritage, 44 mi)
- Semmering Railway (Unesco heritage, 46 mi)
- Tugendhat Villa in Brno (Unesco heritage, 70 mi)
- Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica in Třebíč (Unesco heritage, 73 mi)
- Historic Centre of Telč (Unesco heritage, 79 mi)
- Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora (Unesco heritage, 97 mi)
- Franz-Karl-Fernsicht (observation point, (7 mi)
- Schönbrunn Zoo (zoo, (4 mi)
- Kuchelauer Hafen (marina, (5 mi)
- Donauturm (observation point, (3 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 48.208 and 16.372 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 48° 12' 30" and E 16° 22' 19"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Euro - EUR
- Spoken languages:
- German, Croatian, Hungarian, Slovenian
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 11:32 AM (Thursday)
- Timezone: Europe/Vienna
- UTC/GMT offset: 1 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 5:21 am and 8:20 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -44.033 and -176.367 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Ouwenga - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to Austria.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Austria. Last Update: 2024-05-09 08:23:21
Delve into Prater
The district Prater of Vienna in Wien Stadt (Vienna) is a subburb in Austria and is a district of the nations capital.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Schwechat, Leopoldsdorf, Lanzendorf, Gerasdorf bei Wien and Hennersdorf. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 18°C / 64 °F
| Morning Temperature | 11°C / 51 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 18°C / 65 °F |
| Night Temperature | 13°C / 55 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 42% |
| Air Pressure | 1024 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 8 km/h (5 mph) from South |
| Cloud Conditions | Few clouds, covering 14% of sky |
| General Conditions | Few clouds |
Friday, 10th of May 2024
20°C (67 °F)
13°C (56 °F)
Scattered clouds, light breeze.
Saturday, 11th of May 2024
20°C (69 °F)
16°C (61 °F)
Few clouds, light breeze.
Sunday, 12th of May 2024
19°C (67 °F)
13°C (56 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, broken clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Courtyard Vienna Prater/Messe
Austria Trend Hotel Doppio Wien
Hilton Vienna Danube Waterfront
roomz vienna
Vienna Sporthotel
Vienna Suites
Aldano Serviced Apartments
Hotel Spiess & Spiess Appartement-Pension
Best Western Plus Amedia Wien
Eurostars Embassy
Videos from this area
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Discovery Revolution (Steindl) Prater Wien Vienna 2014 Offride
Boomerang - Prater Park, Vienna
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MV SR VIP Lounge Ernst Happel Stadion Sie und Er Lauf 11.11.2012 Best of Journey Part 1
Sie und Er Lauf 11.11.2012 Stück: Best of Journey Empfang der Läufer nach dem Lauf in der VIP Lounge im Ernst Happel Stadion. Ein ungewöhnlicher und interressanter Auftritt vom MV SR. Das...
SPEED ACES
2009 World Short Track Speedskating Championships in Vienna, Austria.
Vienna's oldest rollercoaster - Sightseeing with Dick McJohnnson - Zwergerlbahn
A ride on Vienna's oldest roller coaster is an absolute must for visitors to the Prater -- the nostalgic classic among the attractions is still a highlight for young and old. On this journey...
Wiener Prater - 2013 ACE Central Europe Trip
ACE Central Europe - 2013 Wiener Prater - Vienna, Austria.
Viena Prater 2010.mp4
Summer Vacation Prater, Wien 2010.
Super 8 Bahn - Prater Park
This is the Super 8 Bahn, which was pretty good for a Pinfari steel coaster. Filmed during the 2005 European Coaster Club Rhapsody Trip of Hungary, Austria and Italy. David Ellis - Roller Coasters,...
Extasy - Prater Wien 2014
Prater 15. 5. 2014 :) Amazing attraction, I love it :D I can't wait for next visit in summer!! :)) max. 120 km/h, 3G :)
Wiener Südosttangente - Vienna southeast City highway (from north to south)
Die Wiener Südosttangente ist die meistbefahrene Straße von Österreich. It is mostly drive road from Austria.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Leopoldstadt
Leopoldstadt is the 2nd municipal District of Vienna. There are inhabitants (as of 2012-01-01) over 19.27 km . It is situated in the heart of the city and, together with Brigittenau (20th district), forms a large island surrounded by the Danube Canal and, to the north, the Danube. It is named after Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. Due to its relatively high percentage of Jewish inhabitants (38.5 per cent in 1923, i.e. before the Holocaust), Leopoldstadt gained the nickname Mazzesinsel.
Landstraße
Landstraße is the 3rd municipal District of Vienna, Austria. It is near the center of Vienna and was established in the 19th century. Landstraße is a heavily populated urban area with many workers and residential homes. It has inhabitants in an area of 7.42 km². It has existed since approximately 1200 AD. In 1192, the English King Richard the Lionheart was captured in the Erdberg neighbourhood, after the unsuccessful Third Crusade. The name "Landstraße" means "country road".
Kugelmugel
Kugelmugel is a former micronation located in Vienna, Austria. Located in Vienna Prater, the Republic of Kugelmugel declared independence in 1984, after disputes between artist Edwin Lipburger and Austrian authorities over building permits for the ball-shaped house which he built in the countryside in Lower Austria and which was moved into the park by the authorities. The house is enclosed by a barbed-wire fence and is the only address within the proclaimed Republic.
Webster University Vienna
Webster University Vienna is the Austrian branch of Webster University, and Webster's biggest campus outside the US. It was founded in 1981, since 9 January 2001 it is accredited as Austria's third private university. It currently has about 500 students from over 70 nations enrolled in its bachelor's and master's programs. Undergraduate majors are offered in: Art and Visual Culture, Business and Management, International Relations, Media Communications, and Psychology.
Wiener Riesenrad
The Wiener Riesenrad (German for "Viennese giant wheel"), or Riesenrad, is a 64.75-metre tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. It is now one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, and symbolises the district as well as the city for many people.
Gasometer, Vienna
The Gasometers in Vienna are four former gas tanks, each of 90,000 m³ storage capacity, built as part of the Vienna municipal gas works Gaswerk Simmering in 1896–1899. They are located in the 11th district, Simmering. They were used from 1899 to 1984 as gas storage tanks. After the changeover from town gas to natural gas between 1969 and 1978, they were no longer used and were shut down. Only the brick exterior front walls were preserved. The structures have found a new use in modern times.
Ernst-Happel-Stadion
The Ernst Happel Stadium (Praterstadion until 1992, sometimes also called Wiener Stadion) in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna, is the largest stadium in Austria. It was built between 1929 and 1931 for the second Workers' Olympiad to the design of German architect Otto Ernst Schweizer. The stadium was renamed in honour of Ernst Happel following his death in 1992.
Wiener Linien
Wiener Linien (Vienna Lines) are the company running the largest part of the public transit network in the city of Vienna, Austria. They are part of the city corporation Wiener Stadtwerke Holding AG.
Wurstelprater
The Wurstelprater is an amusement park and section of the Wiener Prater (a park) in the second district of Vienna, Leopoldstadt. This institution dates back to the time of the Austrian Empire, when Emperor Josef II. made the Prater (which has been serving as Imperial hunting ground until then) open to public in 1766. Soon the first snack bars, stalls and bowling alleys opened up on the grounds and the Wurstelprater was born. The best-known attraction is the Wiener Riesenrad, a Ferris wheel.
Sigmund Freud University Vienna
Located in Vienna, Austria, the Sigmund Freud University (SFU) was accredited as a private university by the Austrian Accreditation Council in August 2005. As a university in the field of Human Sciences, SFU specializes in Psychotherapy Science and Psychology. Professor Alfred Pritz serves as Director of Sigmund Freud University, and Professor Giselher Guttmann serves as Academic Dean.
Prater
The Wiener Prater is a large public park in Vienna's 2nd district. The Wurstelprater amusement park, often simply called "Prater", stands in one corner of the Wiener Prater and includes the Wiener Riesenrad.
Rotunde
The Rotunde in Vienna was a building erected for the Weltausstellung 1873 Wien (the Vienna World Fair of 1873). The building was a partially covered circular steel construction, 84 m (approx. 275 ft) in height and 108 m (approx. 354 ft) in diameter. For almost one century (followed after its own destruction by an exhibition hall in Belgrade, 1957) it was the largest cupola construction in the world, larger than the Pantheon in Rome (diametre 43,4 m); built in 118–125.
Palais Rasumofsky
Reichsbrücke
The Reichsbrücke (German for Empire Bridge) is Vienna's most famous bridge, linking Mexicoplatz in Leopoldstadt with the Donauinsel in Donaustadt on the other side of the Danube. It lies on an important axis leading from the city centre at Stephansplatz, through Praterstern, and on to Kagran in the north-east. The bridge carries six lanes of traffic, used by 50,000 vehicles daily, U-Bahn tracks, two footpaths and two cyclepaths.
Wien Praterstern railway station
Wien Praterstern (German for Vienna Praterstern) is one of Vienna's main railway stations, being used by 35,000 people daily. It is located on the roundabout Praterstern in Leopoldstadt, in the north of the city. Vienna's two most recognisable structures, the Wiener Riesenrad and the Stephansdom (cathedral) are both visible from the platforms.
Schweizerhaus
The Schweizerhaus is a Viennese restaurant, rich in tradition, that is inseparably linked with the Prater, a large public area and park in Vienna, Austria's capital.
Sofiensaal
The Sofiensaal was a concert hall and recording venue in Vienna, Austria. It was situated on Marxergasse, in the city's third district of Landstraße. It burned down on 16 August 2001, although the facade of the building is still intact.
T-Center
The T-Center is an office building in the Sankt Marx section of Landstraße, the 3rd district of Vienna. It was built between the years 2002 and 2004 following the designs of Austrian architect Günther Domenig.
Haus Wittgenstein
Haus Wittgenstein, also known as the Stonborough House and the Wittgenstein House) is a house in the modernist style designed and built on the Kundmanngasse, Vienna, by the Austrian architect Paul Engelmann and the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In November 1925, Wittgenstein's sister Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein commissioned Engelmann to design and build a large townhouse.
Prater Liliputbahn
The Prater Liliputbahn is a 381 gauge light railway in Vienna, Austria. Opened in 1928, and extended in 1933, the railway operates primarily as a tourist attraction, but also providing transport links around the wider area of the Prater park, the amusement park, and the sports stadium. Although a year-round service was provided for many years, it is now more common for the railway to close during the months of December, January, and February.
Ostbahnbrücke
The Ostbahnbrücke is a railway bridge over the Donaukanal in Vienna. It unites the districts of Simmering and Leopoldstadt. The Ostbahnbrücke is located near the power station in Simmering and the Gasometer.
Ferry-Dusika-Hallenstadion
The Ferry-Dusika-Hallenstadion is an indoor arena in Vienna, Austria. It was built in 1976, holds 7,700 spectators and is hosts indoor sporting events such as track cycling, tennis and athletics. It hosts an annual indoor track and field meeting – the Vienna Indoor Classic.
Webster University Geneva
Webster University Geneva is the Swiss campus of Webster University, and Webster's second biggest outside the United States. It was founded in 1978. It currently has about 600 students from over 90 nations enrolled in its bachelor's and master's programs. The degrees of Webster University Geneva are accredited in the United States (via the accreditation of Webster University in the state of Missouri) as are some in Switzerland.
Museum of Art Fakes
The Museum of Art Fakes is a museum of faked and forged artworks that opened in Vienna, Austria in 2005. This small, privately run museum in the Landstraße district is the only one of its kind in the German-speaking world. The exhibits include works by the renowned Vermeer-forger Han van Meegeren and the British art restorer Tom Keating, who claimed to have faked over 2,000 works by more than 100 different artists and deliberately inserted "time bombs" and anachronisms into his paintings.
Austria Classic Hotel Wien
The Austria Classic Hotel Wien is a three-star hotel, located on Praterstraße in Vienna's second district, the Leopoldstadt. It is a member of the Austria Classic Hotels group and was named Hotel Nordbahn until a rebranding in January 2008.
These districts also belong to Vienna.
- Alterlaa
- Anton Schall G.
- Aspern
- Auhof
- Breitenlee
- Dornbach
- Edensiedlung
- Essling
- Favoriten
- Floridsdorf
- Friedensstadt
- Funfhaus
- Gersthof
- Grinzing
- Gross-Jedlersdorf
- Grosser Biberhaufen
- Hacking
- Hadersdorf
- Hernals
- Hetzendorf
- Hietzing
- Hirschstetten
- Horten
- Hutteldorf
- Im Groret
- Innere Stadt
- Invalidensiedlung
- Jagerwaldsiedlung
- Jedlesee
- Josefsdorf
- Kahlenbergerdorf
- Kordonsiedlung
- Lainz
- Mariabrunn
- Meidling
- Neuerlaa
- Neustift am Walde
- Neuwaldegg
- Ober-Sankt-Veit
- Oberlaa
- Ottakring
- Paxsiedlung
- Rothneusiedl
- Salmannsdorf
- Sievering
- Simmeringer Heide
- Speising
- Stadtrandsiedlung
- Stammersdorf
- Strebersdorf
- Sussenbrunn
- Unter-Sankt-Veit
These are districts that are close by, but belong to a different city than Vienna.
Popular in vicinityThese are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Vienna.
- Schwechat
- Leopoldsdorf
- Lanzendorf
- Gerasdorf bei Wien
- Hennersdorf
- Zwoelfaxing
- Vosendorf
- Langenzersdorf
- Himberg
- Hagenbrunn
- Achau
- Klosterneuburg
- Biedermannsdorf
- Gross-Enzersdorf
- Bisamberg
- Aderklaa
- Laxenburg
- Wiener Neudorf
- Enzersfeld
- Raasdorf
- Brunn am Gebirge
- Stetten
- Korneuburg
- Maria Enzersdorf
- Grossebersdorf
- Rauchenwarth
- Perchtoldsdorf
- Modling
- Munchendorf
- Deutsch-Wagram
Prater: Stadion Center, Prater (source)
Vienna: A04, bei Anschlussstelle Erdberger Lände, Blickrichtung Nickelsdorf A − H − Km 0,10, Vienna (source)
Freudenau: A04, bei Knoten Prater, Blickrichtung Nickelsdorf A − H − Km 0,23, Freudenau (source)
Freudenau: A23, bei Anschlussstelle St. Marx, Blickrichtung Hirschstetten − Km 10,06, Freudenau (source)
Freudenau: A23, bei Knoten Prater, Blickrichtung Altmannsdorf − Km 10,06, Freudenau (source)
Freudenau: A23, bei Knoten Prater, Blickrichtung Hirschstetten − Km 10,51, Freudenau (source)
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This place is known by different names. Here the ones we know:
Wiener Prater, Prater, Prater de Vienne
