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15 December: “Altes Landgut” – amusement park with waltz music in Favoriten

If the offer was attractive enough, the Viennese waltzers in the Biedermeier era also liked to go to the suburbs. A resourceful entrepreneur once had the idea of converting a disused brickworks into an amusement park in the countryside. With success. For several years, the Alte Landgut in Favoriten offered an unbeatable combination of Viennese waltzes and a colorful bouquet of attractions.

Cornelia Szabó-Knotik

If the offer was attractive enough, the Viennese waltzers in the Biedermeier era also liked to go to the suburbs. A resourceful entrepreneur once had the idea of converting a disused brickworks into an amusement park in the countryside. With success. For several years, the Alte Landgut in Favoriten offered an unbeatable combination of Viennese waltzes and a colorful bouquet of attractions. (Full text on ORF Topos)

https://topos.orf.at/straussmania-altes-landgut100

Balthasar Wigand (Künstler), “Wien von dem K. K. Ziegelofen vor der Favoriten Linie”, um 1820–1830, Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 114945/1, CC BY 4.0 (https://sammlung.wienmuseum.at/objekt/814264/)