{"id":601,"date":"2015-09-07T06:45:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T04:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:13:20","slug":"harvest-festival-erntedankfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/harvest-festival-erntedankfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Vienna Harvest Festival"},"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\/2015\/09\/harvest_small.jpg\" alt=\"Vegetables\" class=\"wp-image-10373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/harvest_small.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/harvest_small-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A new harvest festival (ernte.dank.festival) has been with us since 2024 in a celebration of Austrian agriculture in the big city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lots of regional food &amp; drink<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Music and other entertainment too<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2026 dates: Sept 12-13<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/september\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"18457\">Vienna in September<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/waldviertelpur\/\">Waldviertelpur<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/steiermark-fruhling\/\">Styrian Spring festival<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-harvest-festival\">The harvest festival<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/erntedankfest2025a.jpg\" alt=\"A display of agricultural produce\" class=\"wp-image-86107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/erntedankfest2025a.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/erntedankfest2025a-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The reds, greens and yellows of agricultural produce)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once a year in early September, Austria&#8217;s agriculture descends on Vienna to offer thanks for the harvest, showcase its products, and educate city dwellers in the ways of the rural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, many of those products are edible or drinkable, so a big chunk of the festival is turned over to stands and marquees brimming with regional specialties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great rounds of mountain cheese might nestle next to rows of homemade jams. Perhaps apples and apricots, pumpkin oil and pancakes, carp and organic kebabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beer, wine, schnapps and fruit juices flow, with a chance to sample some of the regional classics. In 2025, for example, I spotted favourite beers from Zwettl and Weitra as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/cafespubsbars\/heuriger\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"30836\">Heuriger wine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/erntedankfest2025.jpg\" alt=\"Tractors in front of a historical building\" class=\"wp-image-86106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/erntedankfest2025.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/erntedankfest2025-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Not common vehicles in central Vienna)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quite apart from the foof and drink, the festival also offers entertainment and information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the former, we have, for example, machine displays, chainsaw shows, kids activities, and a programme of musical treats (assuming you like brass bands and folk dancing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the latter, numerous educational stands offer information about national parks, agricultural education and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the tourist, it seems a marvellous opportunity to work your way through the culinary concoctions of an entire country without leaving Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"2022-dates-and-tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The traditional date for the Erntedankfest is a weekend in September. The 2026 edition runs across September 12th and 13th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No ticket is required. But you need cash to purchase food and drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-to-get-to-the-erntedankfest\">How to get to the Erntedankfest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The regular home is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/winter-palace\/heldenplatz\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2748\">Heldenplatz<\/a> square right in the centre. Follow that link for travel tips, but you&#8217;re right next to subway stations like Volkstheater on the U3 and U2 lines, not to mention tram stops for the 1, 2, D and 71 lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erntedankfestival.at\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1asmHlbVpicbQLt1557vf6l4l0zQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ernte.dank.festival has been with us since 2024 in a celebration of Austrian agriculture in the big city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86111,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/86111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}