Hedy-Wunsch-Park

Hedy-Wunsch-Park is a park in Vienna’s Liesing neighborhood.

The Hedy-Wunsch-Park in Liesing is a 9,000-square-meter park located between Erilaweg, Rößlergasse, the Erlaaer Schleife primary school, and an unidentified footpath behind it.The park features a children’s playground, soccer field, toboggan slope, and climbing tower in addition to meadows and trees.

On May 8, 2018, the Municipal Council Committee for Culture, Science, and Sport of the City of Vienna named the park after the Austrian table tennis champion in women’s singles, Hedwig Stephanie Hedy Wunsch, née Matrinsky (1934-2016), who lived in the adjoining Putzendoplergasse residential complex.The basis for this was a cross-party motion in the Liesingerdistrict represented by the Social Democratic Party, Freedom Party, Austrian People’s Party, GREEN party, NEOS, and PRO 23 party.