{"id":14563,"date":"2019-04-04T06:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=14563"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T09:34:13","slug":"palais-niederosterreich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/eastermarkets\/palais-niederosterreich\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Market in Palais Nieder\u00f6sterreich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/palaisnoe.jpg\" alt=\"Statues outside Palais Nieder\u00f6sterreich\" class=\"wp-image-14677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/palaisnoe.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/palaisnoe-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Unlike most Easter markets, this one took place largely inside. And a good thing, too, since Palais Nieder\u00f6sterreich is one of Vienna&#8217;s most historic buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arts, crafts and regional food and drink from Lower Austria<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Very high quality of products<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chance to see inside the beautiful palais<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Next dates: TBA (if it repeats: last one was 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Book a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/en\/concerts-opera-vienna-tickets-l206741\/?partner=visitingvienna&amp;tq_campaign=LG_Easter\" rel=\"sponsored\">concert experience<\/a>* for the Viennese Easter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/easter-markets\/\">Easter markets in Vienna<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/where-to-stay\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1647\">Find a hotel for Easter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-oster-erlebnismarkt\">Oster-Erlebnismarkt<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/entrancetopalaisniederosterreich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/entrancetopalaisniederosterreich.jpg\" alt=\"Entrance to Palais Nieder\u00f6sterreich\" class=\"wp-image-42009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/entrancetopalaisniederosterreich.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/entrancetopalaisniederosterreich-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The venue front: also reachable by carriage)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like all of Austria&#8217;s rural provinces, Nieder\u00f6sterreich (Lower Austria) takes pride in its regional traditions, culture, and cuisine. And, every now and then, it turns up in neighbouring Vienna to give locals and tourists a taste of all three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Easter market (Oster-Erlebnismarkt) was one example. Around 60 exhibitors sat inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/palais-niederosterreich-2\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14694\">Palais Nieder\u00f6sterreich<\/a> and offered a broad range of food and drink from the province, together with local arts and crafts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quality bore comparison to any other seasonal market. In fact, having gone round, I&#8217;d venture to suggest only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/eastermarkets\/schonbrunn\/\">Sch\u00f6nbrunn Easter market<\/a> comes close to the standards set in Palais Nieder\u00f6sterreich&#8230;shame it was just a two-day event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the culinary front, for example, I found organic craft beers, giant loaves of crusty bread with homemade pastries and biscuits, organic goats cheese and smoked fish, hams, sausages, multiflavoured (and multicoloured) pasta varieties, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Austria has an excellent reputation for wine, so samples of that fine beverage were common. Part of the province actually bears the name <em>Weinviertel<\/em>, which means &#8220;the wine quarter&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the arts and crafts front, I discovered handmade soaps and uniquely-decorated silk scarfs, glass and silver jewelry, porcelain cake stands, organic clothing, painted goose eggs, and even ostrich feather dusters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event offered more than a passive feast for the eyes and stomach, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central courtyard hosted a stage for music and other entertainment while you dined on Lower Austrian fare and a glass of fine wine (perhaps served by a portly gentleman with a moustache you can hang your coat on).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><em>Ad:<\/em><br><\/div><div data-tiqets-widget=\"discovery\" data-cards-layout=\"horizontal\" data-content-type=\"product\" data-content-ids=\"1008299,1029872\" data-partner=\"visitingvienna\" data-tq-campaign=\"DA_Easter\"><\/div><script defer src=\"https:\/\/widgets.tiqets.com\/loader.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-palais-itself\">The palais itself<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Palais Nieder\u00f6sterreich rarely opens so fully to the public, so the Easter market counted as a genuinely golden chance to get a look inside this remarkable building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The market occupied rooms that date back centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Landtagssaal<\/em> former seat of the provincial parliament, for example, has gorgeous Baroque frescoes covering the ceiling, and it once hosted the likes of Liszt, Beethoven and Schubert for concerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can often take a tour of the palais during public events like a seasonal market. This takes you inside the perfectly-preserved Renaissance chambers with their glorious carved wooden ceilings; they still use the rooms for official functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"opening-times-2023\">Dates &amp; times<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Easter market at Palais Nieder\u00f6sterreich used to run for two days just a couple of weeks before Easter with free entry. However, it has not taken place of late. I don&#8217;t have dates for any repeat, should it return at some point. Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soschmecktnoe.at\/veranstaltungen\">organisers&#8217; event page<\/a> for any future market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same palais and province does, however, offer an annual equivalent: the equally excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/christmasmarkets\/palaisniederosterreich\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"21173\">Adventmarkt<\/a>, typically held at a weekend around the turn of November\/December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-to-get-to-the-market\">How to get to the market<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Herrengasse is right in the centre of Vienna, close to the sights you&#8217;re probably passing anyway and home to its own subway station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you&#8217;re done in the palais, can I strongly recommend you pop into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/palais-ferstel\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"29688\">Palais Ferstel<\/a> for a coffee at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/cafespubsbars\/cafe-central\/\">Caf\u00e9 Central<\/a> (if the queue outside isn&#8217;t too bad)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look for the coffee house&#8217;s entrance opposite the portal leading into Palais Nieder\u00f6sterreich. The cake display is a work of art in its own right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subway: Take the U3 to Herrengasse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tram\/bus: Take the 1A or 2A bus lines to the Herrengasse stop<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Herrengasse 13, 1010 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1HJ0F61P1aOkYuFwwoyEtRi5dh3w\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike most Easter markets, this one took place largely inside. And a good thing, too, since Palais Nieder\u00f6sterreich is one of Vienna&#8217;s most historic buildings. Oster-Erlebnismarkt (The venue front: also reachable by carriage) Like all of Austria&#8217;s rural provinces, Nieder\u00f6sterreich (Lower Austria) takes pride in its regional traditions, culture, and cuisine. 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