!!!Lainzer Tiergarten

Lainzer Tiergarten Nature Preserve, a conservation area in the 
13%%sup th/%  district of Vienna, a part of the southern Vienna Woods 
covering 2500 hectares, situated between the River Wien valley and the 
Liesingbach valley; natural recreation area, surrounded by a wall, on 
the western outskirts of the built-up area of Vienna. The 
Hubertuswarte observation point is situated on the highest peak, the 
Kaltbruendl mountain (508 m); several cork oak trees can be found 
close to Johannserkogel (377 m). The Lainzer Tiergarten has 
always been famous for its large game population (which was, however, 
heavily reduced by the end of the war): e.g.: deer, fallow deer, roe 
deer, moufflons, wild boar. It has been open to the public since 1919 
(more than 300,000 visitors a year), in recent years there has been a 
tendency to turn it into a nature reserve with nature trails, etc.

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Emperor Ferdinand I had a wooden fence built around the imperial 
hunting-ground in 1561. Joseph II had the fence replaced by a 
24.2 km long stone wall in 1781. The forester´s lodge built 
in 1782 was replaced by a refuge near the Hirschgstemm (407 m) in 
1958. From 1882 until 1886 C. v.  Hasenauer built the  
Hermesvilla Hunting Lodge for Empress Elisabeth in the eastern part of 
the Lainzer Tiergarten. The Hermesvilla was decorated with the works 
of famous artists (H. Makart, G. Klimt, R. Weyr etc.). It suffered 
great damage during the war in 1945. The Lainzer Tiergarten became a 
part of the property of the Disabled Veterans Trust in 1919. When the 
trust was dissolved in 1937, it fell to the City of Vienna and became 
a part of the territory of Vienna in 1938 (and, after the post-war 
territorial reorganisation, definitively incorporated into the City of 
Vienna in 1954). In 1918 the "Friedensstadt-Siedlung" settlement and 
from 1949 until 1953 the "Kongress-Siedlung" settlement emerged on the 
south-eastern outskirts of the Lainzer Tiergarten. The north-western 
corner was cut off by the construction of the West-Autobahn A 1 
motorway (Vienna exit).


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