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The Prater in Vienna is the expansive area (6,143,984 m²) close to the city centre where the Viennese go for recreation. Due to regulation of the Danube and extensive use of the park for recreation activities, relatively little remains of what was once a vast river basin used as the imperial hunting ground; today the area offers a wide variety of open spaces, ranging from natural riparian landscape to city park. Most of the trees both in the Vienna Prater and the Krieau are what is left of the woods that grew up on the 'heaps', the islands that used to exist in the Danube. Following regulation of the river in 1871-75, the entire area has undergone dramatic change due to a lowering of the groundwater surface. The construction of a weir here will bring about further changes. This municipal outdoor collage includes the 'People’s Prater', the main avenue with its adjoining landscapes, the fairgrounds, the Freudenau, the Krieau, the pleasure pavilion, the Heustadel pond, the Jesuit Mead-ows and the Prater Museum in the Planetarium near the Giant Ferris Wheel. The pleasure pavilion was built in 1781-1783 to plans by Isidor Canevale, after the public was opened to the public in 1765. A wide variety of traditional entertainment options are still available in the People’s Prater. The flat racing track in the Freudenau, which has been a racecourse since 1862, was designed by Carl v. Hasenauer and was extensively remodelled in 1885-67 to plans by Anton and Josef Drexler. The harness racing track in the Krieau was laid out in 1878, with an architecturally interesting grandstand de-signed by Emil Hoppe and Otto Schönthal added in 1911-13. A new utilization concept is currently being developed for the Prater, with a view to further developing the various facilities available and taking account of a wide variety of interests. Leave a Comment Directions: between Praterstern and Winterhafen Public Traffic: U1, U3, S1, S2, S3, S7, S15, S80, Train No. 5, 18, 21, N, O, B
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Many people regard the Vienna Prater as just another fun-fair. But it´s much more than that: it´s a Viennese institution, like the coffee houses or the Heuriger (wine taverns). Its landmark, and one of Vienna´s too, is the 65 metre high Giant Ferris Wheel. It towers over the 200 booths in the Prater, the ghost train, go-karts and grotto railways, the merry-go-rounds and fruit-machine halls, throwing and shooting galleries. The Prater has something to offer for the whole family: take a ride with the children on the fairy-tale railway, the children´s dodgems and the scenic railway. Plummet down the extra-long slides, laugh yourselves crooked, bent, fat or thin in the hall of mirrors, savour the romantic nostalgia of an old merry-go-round or the great variety on offer from the Prater caterers: from pickled gherkins to boiled beef. Leave a Comment Directions: Opening times for most of the attractions in the Prater are from the beginning of March to the end of October - from morning to midnight. The Giant Ferris Wheel is open from February to November and around New Year´s Eve.
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