Day Trip to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial
The day trip to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial is now available for history-conscious visitors to Vienna. The guided memorial tour starts in the morning at Josef-Meinrad-Platz, next to the Burgtheater, and takes participants by bus to Mauthausen in Upper Austria and back.
This special tour sheds light on the role that the Mauthausen concentration camp played under the Nazi regime of terror and tells the story of the Jewish victims of the Nazi era. Mauthausen now stands as one of Austria’s key sites of remembrance.
A companion app for the tour is available in the following languages: German, English, Hebrew, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, and Turkish.
All details about the Mauthausen tour
- Departure point: Josef-Meinrad-Platz (next to the Burgtheater), 1010 Vienna. Meeting at 7:45 am, departure promptly at 8 am.
- Destination: Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial
- Price: €18 per person; €9 for participants 18 and under; €10 for students aged 26 and under.
- Transportation: Comfortable round-trip by bus included
- Return: Departure from Mauthausen at 4 pm, arrival back in Vienna around 6 pm
- Universitätsring 2, 1010 Wien
- tickets@burgtheater.at
- info@burgtheater.at
- https://www.burgtheater.at
Guided tours
Mo,Thu, Fri: 4 p.m.; Sun&Public Holidays: 11 a.m.
Guided tours in English on selected days: information at tickets.burgtheater.at
Guided tour in German with written explanations in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese.
(subject to change)
Accessibility
(Double swinging doors 170 cm wide)
Ramp 300 cm wide
3 Parking spaces for people with disabilities
in the Burgtheater parking lot – Volksgarten side
Seeing eye dogs allowed
12 Wheelchair spaces available (in the auditorium, access with the elevator)
Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
At each performance, the Burgtheater provides places in the stalls with acoustic amplification by means of induction for visitors who wear a hearing aid. The acoustic signal is also amplified for all visitors. This can be received in the theater during the performance on radio frequency 99.2 MHz using a radio receiver, mobile telephone or MP3 player with radio reception. Please bring your own headset.
Special tours for visitors with disabilities and special needs on prior notification.
Prior notification is necessary for visitors with wheelchairs for admission tickets and tours. Tel. +43 1 514 44-4545, tickets@burgtheater.at
The spoken texts of selected performances can be read along with the app (German, English and other languages)
