A little seasonal scene usually decorates the base. ![]() Simply wend your way to the Rathaus and it’s hard to miss the tree, it being rather tall and tree-shaped. The 2023 tree will be a little different since it comes from Südtirol in Italy: an autonomous province with strong connections to Austria. In 2016, it was Lower Austria, though the tree itself came from land actually owned by Vienna to protect the city’s water supplies. In 2019, the honour fell (see what I did there?) to Salzburg, in 2018 to Carinthia, and in 2017 to Vorarlberg, Austria’s smallest province. This forest area in Upper Austria often provides high altitude-grown timber that, for example, the Bösendorfer company uses in producing their famous pianos. Remarkably, the rest of the lower trunk served a rather resonant purpose as tonewood. Originally some 40m in length (131 feet), around 33m of the tree went up. In 2020, a 200-year-old spruce from the forests of the Schlägl Abbey in the district of Klaffer am Hochficht had the honour of gracing the square and market. Foresters harvested the 30m spruce from woodland belonging to the Esterházy family in the Wiesen area of the province. The 2021 tree grew in the easternmost part of Austria: Burgenland. The province of Styria provided the 2022 tree: the 28m spruce came from Admont in Upper Styria. The tree lights usually switch on the same day the surrounding market opens. ![]() The arrival marks the unofficial start of the Viennese advent season, with many Christmas markets beginning around the same time. Not just any tree, of course, but a giant of a specimen…a tree to tower over the square in front of the city’s Rathaus and form the centrepiece of the most popular Christmas market in the country: the Christkindlmarkt. This was our 3rd Christmas Market and the best of the three by far.We stayed for a few hours and had festive snacks and plenty of Glühwein that warmed us up no end.If your ever in Vienna in the Christmas period and you are looking for a Christmas Market'this is the one to visit.Very easy to find from the tram stop at Rathausplatz Burgtheater it's a minute's walk.(This is my first review of the Christmas Markets at Rathausplatz).As the capital and the biggest city by far, Vienna can have a tense relationship with the eight other provinces that form the rest of Austria.īut it’s all sweetness and light at Christmas: each year, a different province sends Vienna a tree for the festive season. With amusement ride's for the children and a superb ice rink and lot's more attractions and as mentioned above magnificent light feature's throughout the Christmas Market its a magical place to visit. ![]() This Christmas Market is breathtaking with its assorted Christmas stalls that sell many festive gifts.There are lots of stall's offering Glühwein and festive snacks and is a great place to spend a few hours. Located on Rathausplatz'this is a magical place to visit for the adults and children as it encapsulates the Christmas spirit with its amazing Christmas decorations and all its illuminations. ![]() The Christmas Market in Rathausplatz is in my opinion the best Christmas Market that we visited in Vienna on our six day holiday to this amazing city and I would say its the best Christmas Market in Europe.
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