Laxenburg Castle Park, with its extensive parkland, is one of the most important historic landscape gardens in Europe. Apart from numerous memorials, follies, natural monuments, and picturesque garden spaces, the castle park is majestically crowned by the Franzensburg. The Franzensburg is also called "Austria's little treasure house". The history of Laxenburg Castle Park reaches far back into the 13th century. Laxenburg took on its present form in the 18th and 19th centuries. Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth spent their honeymoon here. Today, numerous natural and architectural monuments can be discovered here across the park's 280 hectares.

Historic landscape garden

Laxenburg Castle Park, a place of recreation with variety and flair in a historic setting, is just 25 km from Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. There is a diverse leisure offering here in terms of both culture and sport. A large number of family-friendly facilities (especially the almost 6,000 m² playground) and absolute peace and quiet in the picturesquely staged landscape supplement the offering. During the season from Easter to All Saints' Day, ferryboats, boat rentals on the castle lake, and guided tours of the Franzensburg are offered. Austria's largest historic landscape garden impresses with imposing ancillary buildings and a more than 10 km-long network of paths, a recreation center with gastronomy experience (restaurant "Flieger & Flieger") and a buffet by the castle lake.

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Highlights in 2025

• Colorful Sunday program on the first four Sundays in the months of September and October: guided park tours, matinées in the Green Folly of the Laxenburg Music School in Biedermannsdorf, guided educational forest tours as well as traditional regiments in the original venue
• Klangwelle Laxenburg in August 2025
• Illumina – Magical garden of lights in winter 2025/2026
• Museum in the Franzensburg from April 5, 2025: Guided tours of the museum at 11.00 am, 12.00 noon, 2.00 pm and 3.00 pm, guided tour of the tower and roof at 1.00 pm and 4.00 pm (guided museum tour if the weather's bad)

During the season from April 5 to November 1, 2025:

• Franzensburg: Guided tours of the museum as well as up the Tall Tower and across the roofs; museum shop open daily from 10.30 am – 4.30 pm; ferry to the Franzensburg, Café Meierei with large terrace right by the castle lake.
• Boat rental: Experience the ambience of the castle park from the water as well. The castle lake has a surface area of 25 hectares and offers the whole family the ideal setting for messing about on the water.
• Slow train: Experience Laxenburg Castle Park with a ride on the panorama train, the so-called "Laxenburg Express".
• Children's playground: 6,000 m² area with near-natural area fulfil children's every wish.
• Imperial running laps: A total of three signposted running routes – from 3.1 to 7.7 km.
• Get married in an imperial ambience in one of the picturesque locations in the castle park or in the chapel in the Old Castle.

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Getting there

Laxenburg is about 25 km from Vienna city center on the Südautobahn (A2) towards Graz; the travel time from Vienna to Laxenburg is about 30 minutes. Around 1,200 free parking spaces are available on site; please follow the signs.
Laxenburg can also be easily reached by public transport. A bus runs to Laxenburg from Vienna Main Station and from Mödling train station every 30 minutes. The Therme cycle trail (EuroVelo 9, from Vienna Inzersdorf to Bad Schönau) also leads directly to Laxenburg. Sufficient places to leave bicycles are available at the main entrance to the park (P1).

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