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Greenhouses to Visit in Vienna: Schönbrunn, the Burggarten and More

By the Verrière editors · Published on October 15, 2026

Palmenhaus Schönbrunn (Great Palm House), Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace Park
Palmenhaus Schönbrunn (Great Palm House) — Photo : C.Stadler/Bwag (CC BY-SA 4.0)

In Vienna, the Schönbrunn Palace park alone holds four greenhouses, and there are more across the city, from the historic centre to the 22nd district. Here are all of them in the Verrière atlas.

Schönbrunn

The great Palm House (1880–1882), the Desert House in the former Sundial House and, inside the zoo, the Old Palm House and the Rainforest House: four greenhouses in one park. The Rainforest House has been closed for renovation since 2022.

  1. Palmenhaus Schönbrunn (Great Palm House)

    🇦🇹 Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace Park, Austria · 1880–1882

    Three climates, kept at minimums of 6 to 18 °C, under 4,900 m² of scale-like glazing hung on an iron frame of 1882.

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  2. Wüstenhaus Schönbrunn (Desert House, former Sundial House)

    🇦🇹 Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace Park, Austria · 1904

    It keeps a Fockea in cultivation since the late 18th century, billed as the oldest potted succulent in the world.

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  3. Altes Palmenhaus (Old Palm House, ORANG.erie), Tiergarten Schönbrunn

    🇦🇹 Vienna, Hietzing (Schönbrunn Palace Park), Austria · 1820

    Schönbrunn's first palm house was bricked up as a film and television studio before its glass facade was reinstated in 2009.

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  4. Regenwaldhaus

    🇦🇹 Tiergarten Schönbrunn (Vienna Zoo), Austria · 2002

    An Asian rainforest slope recreated under glass, at the heart of the world's oldest zoo.

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Elsewhere in Vienna

The Burggarten Palm House (1902–1906) in the city centre, the tropical house of the University Botanical Garden, the Tropenhaus of the Haus des Meeres and the Palm House of the Hirschstetten flower gardens, in the 22nd district.

  1. Burggarten Palmenhaus

    🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria · 1902–1906

    An art nouveau glasshouse built for the imperial court, now divided between a restaurant, a butterfly house and a public glasshouse.

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  2. Tropical House and glasshouses of the University of Vienna Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten der Universität Wien)

    🇦🇹 Vienna, Landstraße (3rd district), Austria · 1890–1893

    Built in 1890–1893, the 17-house complex holds over half of the garden's species; only the central Tropical House is open to visitors.

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  3. Tropenhaus of the Haus des Meeres (Aqua Terra Zoo)

    🇦🇹 Vienna (Mariahilf, Esterházypark), Austria · 2000

    A tropical glasshouse clinging to the face of a former flak tower, where birds and marmosets move about freely.

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  4. Palmenhaus, Blumengärten Hirschstetten

    🇦🇹 Vienna, Donaustadt (22nd district), Austria · 1958–1959

    Completed in 1959 as the great glasshouse of Vienna's municipal nursery, it was turned into a 700 m² display house in 1989.

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1157 botanical and historic greenhouses, across 76 countries, organized by continent in the complete catalogue.

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