PRATER
Prater 7
Prater was once an imperial hunting Constructed as the center of the exhibition, a
ground and was only accessible to the rotunda 84 meters high with a dome diameter
nobility, until the Austrian emperor Joseph of 109 meters was destroyed in 1937 by fire. In its
II donated the area to the Viennese region place today is the main building of the
as a recreation area in 1766. The first guest Viennese fair.
establishments, owners, coffee makers and
jingers were created, settled, swings, curls In 1938, Prater became the property of the
and bowling. Viennese community of Nazi Germany. During
the Second World War large parts of the Prater
In 1873 in Vienna in the Prater area the first area were destroyed by numerous bombing
and so far only "World Fair" took place. At and construction of cable and shrapnel
that time, 53,000 exhibitors demonstrated trenches. Most of the Wurstelprater was a
their services on an area of about 2.3 victim of a fire in April 1945. After 1945, the
million M2 with an emphasis on cultural Wurstelprater was rebuilt with private
topics. initiatives, the devastated landscape of Prater
was again laid in the creation of the city garden.