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The Lainzer Tiergarten is normally closed until Christmas due to rest periods for wild animals.
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The Lainzer Tiergarten in Vienna-Hietzig normally closes its doors from the beginning of November until Christmas to allow wild animals to rest. However, this winter the recreation area will remain open.
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the recreation area will remain open this winter, at least from Friday to Sunday, starting on November 13. Access via Lainzer and St. Veiter Tor is possible between 8 am and 5 pm
Lainzer Tiergarten is open on weekends in winter
“I am pleased to be able to offer the Viennese additional recreational use during this expendable time of the lockdown with the expanded opening of the Lainzer Tiergarten,” forestry director Andreas Januskovecz said in a broadcast on Friday. However, visitors are advised that there is no winter service at the Lainzer Tiergarten and that therefore suitable footwear is recommended.
Wildlife rest during the week.
From Monday to Thursday, the recreation area remains closed in the winter season, “in order to give the wild animals the greatest possible rest in the cold and exhausting season and to be able to carry out the necessary measures to protect the trees” the broadcast said. During the Christmas holidays (December 24 to January 6) you can visit the Lainzer Zoo every day.
Hermesvillapark remains open every day
The Hermesvillapark, as part of the entire Lainzer Tiergarten area, will remain open every day from 8 am to 5 pm This has not yet been affected by a winter lockdown. The novelty as of November 13 is that the rest of the recreation area can also be visited on weekends, through all the doors that are open every year during the Christmas holidays, as the director told the APA forester Andreas Januskovecz.
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