Wertheimsteinpark, Public park in Döbling, Austria

Wertheimsteinpark covers about 62,500 m² in Oberdöbling, east of the Döblinger Hauptstraße, and drops steeply toward the Heiligenstädter Straße and the Danube Canal. Its uneven ground follows the former Krottenbach valley; the stream was vaulted over between 1893 and 1930, and a small spring-fed pond with an outflow channel survives in the park. Old and exotic trees stand on the slopes.

In 1833 the textile manufacturer Rudolf von Arthaber bought the Tullner Hof and in 1834/35 built the Villa Wertheimstein with a private garden and Austria's first bourgeois palm house. After his death Leopold and Josephine von Wertheimstein acquired the estate; their daughter Franziska bequeathed villa and park to Vienna on condition it remain public green space. The park opened on 20 June 1908.

The villa, now housing the Döbling District Museum and a wine museum in the adjacent building, bears the name of Leopold and Josephine von Wertheimstein, whose literary salon drew writers such as Eduard von Bauernfeld and Ferdinand von Saar. A memorial stone records that their daughter Franziska bequeathed the park to Vienna in 1907 on condition it remain public green space forever.

The park lies east of Döblinger Hauptstraße and drops steeply toward Heiligenstädter Straße and the Vorortelinie; paths follow this slope, so expect gradients. The pond fed by natural springs and its outflow channel are the last remains of the Krottenbach, which was vaulted between 1893 and 1930. The villa houses the Döbling district museum, with a wine-growing museum in the neighbouring building.

In 1959 the park gained the first garden for blind visitors in Central Europe, modelled on examples in Brighton and Edinburgh. Most of its elements have since been removed. The park also holds a 1914 bust of the writer Ferdinand von Saar by Franz Seifert and a 1975 bust of Julius Schlegel, who saved the art treasures of Montecassino.