MAK Tower Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark, Vienna

Arenbergpark is a park near Dannebergplatz in Vienna's third district, Landstraße.

The park, then much larger than today, was laid out in 1785 by Nicholas I Joseph Prince Esterházy and in 1810 became the property of Archduke Charles, who had rosebushes worth 140,000 gulden planted here. In 1815 the park was sold to a wool wholesaler and after his death it became the property of the Princes Arenberg, who gave the park its name. On May 11, 1900, the Municipality of Vienna purchased the park and the Palais Arenberg from the estate of Franziska von Arenberg, née Liechtenstein.

The municipality then had the peripheral areas of the park parceled out and built on by private developers in 1906-1908 and laid out new streets, which significantly reduced the park area. Thus Neulinggasse was extended from Ungargasse to the park and appeared with this section in Lehmann for the first time in 1909. The street bordering the park to the south and west, access to the houses built on the edge of the park, was called Arenbergring in 1906 and renamed Dannebergplatz in 1949.

The park had been open to the public since September 16, 1900, and was reopened after expansion and redesign on September 19, 1907. All that remained of the original park was an octagonal pavilion on Neulinggasse and another in a backyard between Ungargasse and Charasgasse. In 1915 the so-called Scherzogruppe, a bronze sculpture by Josef Müllner depicting a boy with panthers, was erected. However, it was stolen and was renewed in 1920. Later it moved to Schwarzenbergplatz and in 1948 to Modenapark.

During the Second World War, two flak towers were built in the park in 1942 / 1943, which still characterize its image today. After the end of the war, the park was restored by architect Viktor Mödlhammer and reopened on September 20, 1950. The larger tower is used by the Museum of Applied Arts for storage. After the failure of an IT company, the City of Vienna as owner is looking for a user for the smaller, the Leitturm.

Since 1992 there has been a memorial plaque to Robert Danneberg in the park, after whom the square around the park is named, and near the kindergarten at the edge of the park stands the play sculpture Bear by Josef Schagerl junior. In 1958, the Palais Arenberg at Landstraßer Hauptstraße 96, which adjoins the park to the east and most recently housed the municipal youth welfare office, was demolished so that the Neulinggasse, which borders the park to the north, could be extended to it.