The once flourishing Viennese Jewish culture was destroyed during the Holocaust. Haredi Jews at the Karmelitermarkt in Leopoldstadt during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1915. There is also a miniature steam railway (" Liliputbahn") which, on its track through the woodland parallel to the Hauptallee, passes Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion. Nearby you can find the "Republic of Kugelmugel", a micronation proclaimed in 1984 that became a landmark of the area. The owners claim that, back in the 1920s, the potato crisp was invented there.
The Schweizerhaus (" Swiss Hut"), an establishment boasting a huge beer garden, sells the original Czech Budweiser draught beer.
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The area of the Prater closest to the city centre contains a large amusement park, known as the Volksprater ("People's Prater") or Wurstelprater (after the Harlequin-type figure of Hanswurst), and at its entrance there is the giant Wiener Riesenrad Ferris wheel opened in 1897 which features prominently in the movie The Third Man and which has become one of Vienna's landmarks. Places of interest include the Wiener Prater (from Latin pratum "meadow"), former imperial hunting grounds to which the public was denied access until 1766. This context was a significant aspect for the district twinning with the New York City borough Brooklyn in 2007. Due to its relatively high percentage of Jewish inhabitants before the Holocaust (38.5 percent in 1923), Leopoldstadt gained the nickname Mazzesinsel (' Matzo Island'). It is named after Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. It is situated in the heart of the city and, together with Brigittenau (20th district), forms a large island surrounded by the Danube Canal and, to the north, the Danube. Leopoldstadt ( German pronunciation: ( listen) Bavarian: Leopoidstod, "Leopold-Town") is the 2nd municipal district of Vienna ( German: 2.
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