Märzpark, Urban park in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, Austria
Märzpark is a green space adjacent to the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna's 15th district, containing courts for football, volleyball, and basketball, a children's playground, and a rose pyramid. The park also provides picnic tables and drinking water fountains for visitors spending time outdoors.
Märzpark was laid out in 1925 on a plot of the closed Schmelzer Cemetery and opened in 1928. The cemetery's dead had been partly exhumed and reburied at the Vienna Central Cemetery and Baumgartner Cemetery, and part of the freed ground was built over. The park is named after the 35 victims of the March Revolution buried here in 1848; a gravestone-like memorial still recalls them, though the remains were moved to the Central Cemetery in 1888.
The park takes its name from the 35 victims of the March Revolution of 1848 buried here; their remains were moved to the Zentralfriedhof in 1888. A gravestone-like memorial in the park still marks them. The site was laid out on part of the closed Schmelzer Cemetery.
Visitors can play on the sports courts during the day or relax at the picnic benches, while drinking fountains provide refreshment. The park is easily accessible and offers open areas suitable for walking, even without using the active sports facilities.
The garage beneath the park covers about a third of its area and was built in 2004 to ease parking pressure. When the redesigned park reopened on 29 June 2006, its centrepiece became a rose pyramid that screens the garage's ventilation shaft.
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