Skates & rentals
Skate hire is open during the rink's opening hours and costs € 6 for sizes 24 to 30 and € 8 for sizes 31 to 50; a valid ID or € 100 a pair is kept as a deposit.
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Kunsteisbahn Engelmann
The first open-air artificial-ice rink in the world, built in Hernals in 1909 by Eduard Engelmann
Public skating at Kunsteisbahn Engelmann: the next 7 days
Currently out of season The season opens on Friday 6 November 2026 at 09:00. The rink's page for prices and opening times still shows the 2025/26 price list, so no 2026/27 hours or prices are listed here yet. Official schedule update
- Address
- Syringgasse 6-14, Wien, 1170
- Phone
- +43 1 405 14 25
- Website
- engelmann.co.at
The world's first open-air artificial-ice rink
In 1909 Chief Building Councillor Eduard Engelmann created an open-air artificial-ice rink in Hernals, a world first. The family's sports ground goes back to a trade licence of 1871 for a rink in the garden, which its history page calls the official birth of the Engelmann ground. The association Kunsteisbahn auf dem Sportplatz Engelmann was formed in 1907 to help build the rink, and it still runs it as a non-profit club with mostly voluntary members.
Engelmann's motto was "through artificial ice to figure skating", and the ground was called the heart chamber of ice skating. Its champions include Herma Szabo, Austria's first Olympic figure-skating champion in 1924, and Karl Schäfer, twice Olympic champion. Bombs destroyed the rink in 1945, it reopened in 1946, and in 1974 a new rink opened on the roof of the department store.
Before you head out.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
Parking & arrival
Reduced parking tickets for the Interspar car park, 5 hours for €6, are sold at the rink's ticket desk.
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