Bertha-Neumann-Park in Liesing, Vienna

Bertha-Neumann-Park is a very small public green space in Liesing, Vienna’s 23rd district, between Rudolf-Waisenhorn-Gasse and the Breitenfurter Straße corridor near the Liesing River. It is not a destination park with elaborate gardens or multiple attractions. Its importance comes from its name and location. The City of Vienna confirms that the park commemorates Dr Bertha Neumann, born in Liesing in 1893, one of the early women doctoral candidates in Staatswissenschaft, or political and state sciences, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. That short official description turns an otherwise modest “Beserlpark” into a local site of memory connected with education, Jewish persecution and the history of women entering Austrian academic life.

The park was named in 2017. Secondary park documentation gives an area of roughly 800–860 square metres, so travellers should expect a pocket-sized space rather than a landscaped excursion ground. Benches and greenery provide a place to pause, while the location near the Liesing water corridor gives the site a relationship with the district’s infrastructure landscape. From the park, the nearby aqueduct of Vienna’s First Mountain Spring Pipeline can be part of the wider view and walking context, although the aqueduct itself is a separate landmark.

Bertha Neumann’s biography is the main interpretive reason to stop. City records describe her as one of the first female doctoral candidates in state sciences and identify Liesing as her birthplace. More detailed secondary research records her birth name as Kunreuther, her marriage to local physician Karl Neumann and the murder of Bertha, Karl and their son under National Socialism. The park name therefore belongs to Vienna’s wider effort to make women and victims of persecution more visible in the public naming of streets and green spaces.

That commemorative role is intentionally quiet. There is no large museum display or elaborate memorial architecture that requires a long visit. Instead, it can help travellers understand why the name matters, where the park lies and how it fits into a walking route through Liesing. For visitors interested in remembrance culture, small named spaces like this demonstrate how Vienna distributes memory through ordinary daily infrastructure rather than reserving it only for monumental memorial sites.

Current City information still lists Bertha-Neumann-Park among the named parks of Liesing. The City does not publish a dedicated gate schedule, ticket requirement or park-specific visitor service. It is free public space. Transport is practical from the Wien Liesing area: current journey-planning data places stops such as Fabergasse and Schartlgasse within a few minutes of the Breitenfurter Straße section near the park, with bus services including 60A and 66A and regional lines in the wider area. Because local routes change, use WienMobil for the exact stop on the day.

Accessibility is similarly simple but incompletely documented. The park is small and urban, yet no current City page provides a full step-free assessment of its paths, benches or entrances. Travellers who need guaranteed accessible surfaces should treat that absence honestly rather than assume the park is fully accessible. The nearby road and river edges can also make route choice more important than the distance itself.

A realistic visit lasts ten to twenty minutes unless the park is folded into a longer Liesing walk. Combine it with the Liesing River, the First Mountain Spring Pipeline aqueduct or the district centre rather than crossing Vienna solely for the park. The purpose of a support page is not to oversell the site but to make it intelligible: a real, verifiable public space that carries the name of a Liesing-born scholar and Holocaust victim, provides local greenery and preserves a small piece of civic memory in the everyday city.

The dedication gives this very small space a significance that is easy to overlook. Vienna’s current park-name register does not present Neumann as a celebrity but as a local woman whose academic achievement and murder under National Socialism deserve remembrance. That makes the park less a sightseeing attraction than a piece of everyday memorial geography: a name encountered during an ordinary walk keeps one individual biography present in the district where she was born.

Its scale should shape expectations from the start: this is a brief neighborhood stop rather than a park with a programmed visitor route. The useful content is the person behind the name, the position near the Liesing corridor and the ability to include the space in a local walk without creating a separate excursion.