Michael-Bausback-Park in Erlaa, Vienna

Michael-Bausback-Park is a public park at Erlaaer Platz in Vienna’s 23rd district, Liesing, and today its defining practical function is as a large fenced dog zone. The City of Vienna currently lists Michael-Bausback-Park among Liesing’s named parks and identifies its namesake as Michael Bausback, an Atzgersdorf Ortsrichter, or local judge, who lived from 1756 to 1831. The City’s current dog-zone directory lists a 3,898-square-metre fenced dog zone here with drinking water. Secondary park documentation describes the entire park at roughly 4,500–4,750 square metres, meaning the dog area occupies most of the site.

That combination of local history and present-day dog recreation is the correct basis for a compact support page. The park is not a traditional sightseeing garden. There are no major monuments, curated flower displays or scheduled tours. For dog owners, however, the large fenced area is a practical destination; for local-history visitors, the name opens a small window onto the pre-metropolitan government of Atzgersdorf, when communities around today’s Liesing were separate villages with their own local officials.

An Ortsrichter was an important community office in the administrative structures of earlier Austrian villages. The durable verified fact is that Vienna chose to commemorate him as Atzgersdorf’s local judge. Secondary park history places the naming in the 1990s and gives the park’s location at Erlaaer Platz, but the current official City sources are strongest for the name itself and the dog-zone function.

The park’s modern setting belongs to Erlaa rather than historic central Atzgersdorf. Current mapping places it close to Schloss Alterlaa, the small Biotop pond, miniature golf and sports facilities, with U6 Alterlaa and the larger Wohnpark Alterlaa area within the wider neighborhood. That makes Michael-Bausback-Park useful for residents moving through a recreational cluster rather than visitors arriving for a single attraction. Dog owners can combine the fenced zone with a walk along local paths, while architecture-focused visitors may pass nearby en route to Alterlaa.

The present dog-zone function also changes how a visitor should interpret the word “park.” In many Vienna listings, a named park contains several separate uses, but at Michael-Bausback-Park the off-leash area dominates almost the entire footprint. That is why current open mapping classifies it directly as a dog park. The site is therefore valuable primarily as practical canine infrastructure with a historical name, not as a general family park that merely happens to include a small dog enclosure.

The dog-zone details are current and specific. Vienna’s municipal directory records the Michael-Bausback-Park area as fenced and equipped with a dog drinking facility. Citywide rules require owners to remove dog waste immediately and comply with posted instructions. In dog zones, dogs can generally move without a leash or muzzle, subject to special requirements for listed or officially dangerous dogs. Those rules matter more here than generic park etiquette because off-leash dog use is the park’s primary contemporary function.

Secondary current mapping marks the site as wheelchair accessible, but no dedicated City accessibility audit for the entire dog park was located. The support page can mention the mapping attribute as secondary information while recommending direct verification for users who need precise gate width, surface or step-free route details.

There is no tourist admission fee and the City publishes no conventional park gate schedule in its general parks list. The dog zone is an outdoor public facility, and the seven-day table therefore states that no fixed gate hours are published. Visitors should follow any posted local restrictions, particularly if maintenance temporarily affects access.

Transport is easiest from the Alterlaa area. Current mapping places the park near Erlaaer Platz and within the recreational and residential network around U6 Alterlaa, though exact walking and bus combinations vary by origin. WienMobil is the best current planning tool.

A normal visit lasts as long as a dog owner needs the exercise area; a non-dog history stop may take only ten to twenty minutes. Michael-Bausback-Park is a real named place with a current municipal dog facility and a locally specific historic namesake. That is exactly the type of smaller entity the recovery policy is designed to preserve.