From show garden days to autumn festivals and family days to the festival of fruit diversity: the six Donau Gardens present themselves from their most beautiful side in autumn. Not only can you marvel at the gardens, but you can also learn interesting facts about the flora and fauna or taste the variety of fruit.
Spitz, September 3rd, 2024 – All the work and effort during the year was not in vain, because now it’s time to admire and snack in the gardens to your heart’s content. Autumn is the time of harvest and enjoyment. As different as the Donau Gardens are, they all have one thing in common: gardens and natural landscapes maintained with great dedication and care.
Fall events
The beginning of the autumnal series of events in the Donau Gardens Eckartsau Castle on the weekend, September 14th and 15th. The Show garden days invite you to tours in the castle park at 2.30 p.m. on the topics of “natural gardening as well as medicinal and wild herbs”.
The festival of fruit diversity follows on Saturday, September 21st Alchemistenpark in Kirchberg am Wagram. With music, fruit tasting, variety identification and much more, the First Edible Community will celebrate its fruits from all over the world from 1:45 p.m.
Also on September 21st, “Nature in the Garden” will be taking place on the site of Europe’s first ecological garden show, THE GARDENS TULLNfor the autumn festival and at the same time celebrates “25 years of nature in the garden” with a colorful program. On this occasion, visitors can also purchase seeds in the shop that come directly from plants on the site.
On the occasion of “World Children’s Day”, the Danube-Auen National Park on Sunday, September 22nd, a colorful afternoon for families on the Schlossinsel Auerlebnis area. From 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., visitors big and small can expect interesting stations on the lives of the animal children and their parents, as well as performances by the traveling Autheater.
The last weekend of September, September 28th and 29th, is up Hof Castlestarting at 10 a.m., all in keeping with the colorful season. The autumn program ranges from craft workshops for children to musical and culinary delicacies to handicrafts and carriage rides.
An expedition to the monastery herbs is taking place on Saturday, September 28th Klosterneuburg Abbey to. During a 90-minute walk through the monastery garden, which is rarely viewed, you can learn interesting facts about medicinal herbs and their effects.
The Danube Gardens at a glance
There are six gardens to discover along the Danube river: the Kirchberg am Wagram orchard starts in the west. Almost around the corner: THE TULLN GARDENS in the garden city of Tulln on the Danube – the first ecological garden show in Europe. Klosterneuburg Abbey takes you back to the different eras of garden art. If you want to experience the Au and its ecosystem on a small scale, take a closer look at the castle island in the lockORTH National Park Center. In the castle park in Eckartsau and in the magnificent gardens of Hof Castle, visitors are transported back to the Austro-Hungarian times.
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