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Popular Things To Do | Miscellaneous Things To Do Tips | All Tips (100) ... with the Badener Rosentage, a two-week celebration of roses. During the Rosentage, when all the lovely roses are in flull bloom, more than 6,000 different kinds can be admired blossoming on 20,000 rose trees and shrubs
The Badener Rosentage 2004 opens 5 June and runs until the Open-Air-Rosenball on 19 June. Leave a Comment |
After having 74 victims claimed by the Plague
from April to October 1713, the city promised - in order to ward off the epidemic -to erect a trinity column and to stage an annual pilgrimage to Gutenstein (and they still conduct it up today )
An there it is, in the Hauptplatz (Main Square, the Trinity Column, built in 1714-1718, which commemorates the lifting of the plague and also the end of Turkish invasions - which virtually burned the city to the ground, in 1683. Leave a Comment |
As much as Vienna, Baden has strong musical traditions. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven resided and worked in Baden. Franz Liszt, as well as the composers of the Viennese waltzes such as Josef Lanner, the Strauss brothers, Carl Michael Ziehrer and Karl Millöcker lived and created their music here.
This theater is mostly used for performances in Winter season, while in the Summer one can enjoy the concerts in the spa gardens and the operetta festival in the Sommer Arena. Leave a Comment |
Kurpark has plenty of statues and monuments, and offers you not only the views.
Here you can attend concerts, plays, and operas at an open-air theater ( Sommerarena ) or try your luck at the casino. The Römerquelle (Roman Springs) can be seen gurgling from an intricate rock basin. There is the elegant cast-iron Park Cafe, the famous Blumenuhr ( flower clock ) and monuments to Beethoven, Mozart, and the great playwright Grillparzer. Leave a Comment |
On Brusatti-Platz, opposite the pedestrian zone, there is the Green Market.
This is a good place for you to start visiting Baden. There you find the tourist information office and you may sit for a while, in one of the small cafes or tea houses while you decide where to go first - parks or historic pedestrian zone.... Leave a Comment |
Outdoor pools.
During the summer, the strandbad, a magnificent construction from the Art Deco period ( architect Alois Bohn ), offers lots of fun.
Wagon loads of sand were transported to the site from the bancks of the Danube to shape its unique sand beach - which connects with a range of basins including a sulphurous pool, children's basin, a sports and family pool, diving platforms and water slide.. Leave a Comment Address: Helenenstrasse |
This beautifully landscaped garden is one of the good reasons to visit Baden.
This restful spot is actually a development of an once relatively small Theresiangarten ( named after Empress Maria Theresia ), next to the Bath, which now extends from the town centre right into the southeast edge of the Wienerwald ( Vienna Woods ).
From there you can have a picturesque view of the city. Leave a Comment |
Baden bei Wien is situated in the heart of the wine-growing thermal region, south of Vienna.
Every year from early September to the start of the grape harvest, there is this Grape Cure Festival.
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The greater part of the present building dates back to the 15th century. During the Baroque period, the tower got its onion tower and a painting of Paul Troger, depicting the stoning of St. Stephen - patron of the church.
Inside there's a commemorative plaque to Mozart, who composed his "Ave Verum" here for the parish choirmaster Leave a Comment |
Beethoven stayed in at least seven different addresses during his 17 visits to Baden between 1804 and 1825. This being one of them!
It was one of his favourite summer resorts. Who can blame him, it is wonderful.
The apartment on the first floor has now been restored and is a museum to Beethoven. The ground floor contains an antique shop selling generally tasteless tourist gifts. Leave a Comment Address: Rathausgasse 94Directions: Centre of Baden |
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on May 12, 2004
on February 11, 2006
