Leopoldimarkt
Visitors can browse market huts offering sustainable crafts, gifts, and regional delicacies. The park features an eco-friendly curling lane, a straw playground, a labyrinth, a motor skills course, and a fire pit for roasting sausages and marshmallows. Family-friendly highlights include lantern-crafting workshops, storytelling sessions, and a community lantern walk through the grounds.
What to Expect
Sustainable regional market and lantern celebrations honoring Lower Austria's patron saint.
Event Details
Food & Drink
Stalls offer regional treats, organic punch and mulled wine, cocoa and tea, mini pancakes, chestnuts, potato dishes, spätzle, pastries, and sausages to grill at the fire pit.
Local Insight & Ratings
Family Friendly
Best For
Families with young children
Vibe
Festive and family-friendly
Energy Level
Moderate
Photo Friendly
High
Weather Sensitivity
Moderate
Location
Know Before You Go
- Hours: Friday 14:30–20:30; Saturday and Sunday 12:30–20:30.
Tips & Advice
- Bring the kids on Friday afternoon to make lanterns in the pavilion, then come back Saturday so they can carry them in the lantern walk.
- Let the kids roast marshmallows and sausages at the fire pit, which is part of the daily program next to the straw playground.
- Check the weather on Saturday, because the lantern festival moves to Sunday at the same time if the weather is bad.
- Come on Sunday late morning for the Frühschoppen, when Stadtkapelle Traiskirchen plays brass music while you enjoy regional food, wine and punch.
- Dress warmly, since the market, lantern walk and fire pit are all outdoors in the Kurpark in mid-November.
Special Events & Promotions
- Friday: lantern-making workshop in the pavilion, followed by Geschichtenzauber stories of Saint Martin and Saint Leopold.
- Saturday: Baden's big lantern festival, a children's lantern walk through the Kurpark with singing and free children's punch (moves to Sunday in bad weather).
- Sunday: autumn Frühschoppen with brass music from Stadtkapelle Traiskirchen, plus regional food, wine and punch.
Quick Actions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is there for kids to do?
Every day there's an eco-friendly curling lane, a straw playground, a labyrinth and a motor skills course. There's also a fire pit for roasting marshmallows and sausages.
Can children make their own lanterns?
Yes. On Friday there's a lantern-making workshop in the pavilion, followed by stories about Saint Martin and Saint Leopold.
What happens at the lantern festival?
On Saturday, children bring the lanterns they made and walk through the Kurpark together, singing as they go. At the end, every child who takes part gets a free children's punch. In bad weather, it moves to Sunday.
What can I buy at the market?
Many stallholders sell products, gift ideas, food and regional treats, all sustainable and regional.
What food and drink is there?
Stallholders sell food and regional treats, and kids can roast marshmallows and sausages at the fire pit. At Sunday's Frühschoppen, you can enjoy regional food, wine and punch with traditional brass music.
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