Districts of Vienna

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The districts of Vienna (German: Wiener Gemeindebezirke) are the 23 named city sections of Vienna, Austria, which are numbered for easy reference. [1] They were created from 1850 onwards, when the city area was enlarged by the inclusion of surrounding communities. Although they fill a similar role, Vienna's municipal districts are not administrative districts (Bezirke) as defined by the federal constitution; Vienna is a statutory city and as such is a single administrative district in its entirety.

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Districts

No.DistrictCoat of
arms		Area
(km2)		Population
(2023)		Density
per km2		Map
1 Innere Stadt Wien - Bezirk Innere Stadt, Wappen.svg 2.86916,6205,791 Vienna subdivisions (1).svg
2 Leopoldstadt Wien - Bezirk Leopoldstadt, Wappen.svg 19.242108,2695,627 Vienna subdivisions (2).svg
3 Landstraße Wien - Bezirk Landstrasse, Wappen.svg 7.40396,75613,075 Vienna subdivisions (3).svg
4 Wieden Wien - Bezirk Wieden, Wappen.svg 1.77633,63318,895 Vienna subdivisions (4).svg
5 Margareten Wien - Bezirk Margareten, Wappen.svg 2.01255,01827,372 Vienna subdivisions (5).svg
6 Mariahilf Wien - Bezirk Mariahilf, Wappen.svg 1.45531,42321,523 Vienna subdivisions (6).svg
7 Neubau Wien - Bezirk Neubau, Wappen.svg 1.60831,58119,616 Vienna subdivisions (7).svg
8 Josefstadt Wien - Bezirk Josefstadt, Wappen.svg 1.0924,67422,637 Vienna subdivisions (8).svg
9 Alsergrund Wien - Bezirk Alsergrund, Wappen.svg 2.97642,20614,211 Vienna subdivisions (9).svg
10 Favoriten Wien - Bezirk Favoriten, Wappen.svg 31.823218,4156,862 Vienna subdivisions (10).svg
11 Simmering Wien - Bezirk Simmering, Wappen.svg 23.256109,0384,688 Vienna subdivisions (11).svg
12 Meidling Wien - Bezirk Meidling, Wappen.svg 8.103100,28112,380 Vienna subdivisions (12).svg
13 Hietzing Wien - Bezirk Hietzing, Wappen.svg 37.71355,5681,473 Vienna subdivisions (13).svg
14 Penzing Wien - Bezirk Penzing, Wappen.svg 33.7696,8282,868 Vienna subdivisions (14).svg
15 Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus Wien - Bezirk Rudolfsheim-Funfhaus, Wappen.svg 3.91876,10919,416 Vienna subdivisions (15).svg
16 Ottakring Wien - Bezirk Ottakring, Wappen.svg 8.673102,44411,816 Vienna subdivisions (16).svg
17 Hernals Wien - Bezirk Hernals, Wappen.svg 11.39656,0334,919 Vienna subdivisions (17).svg
18 Währing Wien - Bezirk Wahring, Wappen.svg 6.34751,5598,120 Vienna subdivisions (18).svg
19 Döbling Wien - Bezirk Dobling, Wappen.svg 24.94475,5173,028 Vienna subdivisions (19).svg
20 Brigittenau Wien - Bezirk Brigittenau, Wappen.svg 5.7185,69015,007 Vienna subdivisions (20).svg
21 Floridsdorf Wien - Bezirk Floridsdorf, Wappen.svg 44.443183,8954,138 Vienna subdivisions (21).svg
22 Donaustadt Wien - Bezirk Donaustadt, Wappen.svg 102.299212,6582,079 Vienna subdivisions (22).svg
23 Liesing Wien - Bezirk Liesing, Wappen.svg 32.061117,8823,677 Vienna subdivisions (23).svg

District locations

District locations Vienna, administrative divisions - Nmbrs.svg
District locations

The boundaries of each district have been shown as a layer on this map. The following are locations of the 23 districts:

  1. Innere Stadt is the city centre, with numerous historical sites and few residents.
  2. Leopoldstadt is the island between the Danube and the Donaukanal, with Praterstern, Vienna's most frequented traffic spot, and the Prater with Vienna's iconic Giant Wheel.
  3. Landstraße is on the right bank of the Donaukanal, and includes the Belvedere.
  4. Wieden is a small district south of the city centre, and includes the Vienna University of Technology.
  5. Margareten was separated from Wieden in 1861. The Museum for Social and Economic Affairs (Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum) is located in Margareten. The museum was the base for the development of the Vienna Method.
  6. Mariahilf is a small district on the main shopping lane leading to Westbahnhof.
  7. Neubau is a small district on main shopping lane leading to Westbahnhof, and includes the Museumsquartier, a large cultural complex.
  8. Josefstadt is a small district close to the Rathaus, Parlament, and the University of Vienna.
  9. Alsergrund is the General Hospital district, and includes Sigmund Freud's residence.
  10. Favoriten is in the southern part of Vienna, and has the largest population, the new main train station, and the city's thermal spa.
  11. Simmering is on the right bank of the Donaukanal, and includes the Zentralfriedhof which is the main cemetery.
  12. Meidling is on the southern bank of the Wien river.
  13. Hietzing is on the southern bank of the Wien river, and includes Schönbrunn Palace.
  14. Penzing is on the northern bank of the Wien river, and was separated from Hietzing in 1938. It includes Otto Wagner's Church Am Steinhof.
  15. Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus is on the northern bank of the Wien river.
  16. Ottakring is on the western outskirts and includes Vienna's traditional brewery.
  17. Hernals is on the northwestern outskirts of Vienna.
  18. Währing is on the northwestern outskirts of Vienna, and includes the Türkenschanzpark around which was founded the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
  19. Döbling is on the northern outskirts of Vienna, and includes the classical Heurigen district.
  20. Brigittenau is on the same island as Leopoldstadt, and was separated in 1900.
  21. Floridsdorf is on the left bank of the Danube, and includes industry areas. It is the northernmost part of Vienna.
  22. Donaustadt is on the left bank of the Danube, and is the largest district in size. It includes the Vienna International Centre, a campus and building complex hosting the United Nations Office at Vienna as well as Vienna's largest conference center.
  23. Liesing is the southernmost least population dense district, and includes the Wotruba Church.

By looking at the postal code it can be determined in which district a given address is located: 1XXA - 1 denotes Vienna, XX the district number (if it is a single digit then with a leading zero), A is the number of the post office (irrelevant in this case, usually zero). Example: 1070 for Neubau. Exceptions of that are 1300 for the Vienna International Airport located in Lower Austria near Schwechat, 1400 for the UN Complex, 1450 for the Austria Center Vienna, and 1500 for the Austrian UN-Forces.

The numbering of the districts reflects to some degree when they were incorporated into Vienna.

Politics

The seats of Bezirksvorsteher (political district head) and Bezirksvertretung (district assembly) [2] are located in the respective districts, with the exception of the 14th district, whose political representatives reside in the 13th district (to which much of the 14th had belonged until 1938). The Magistratisches Bezirksamt (district office of the city administration, not headed by the political district head) in four locations combines services for two districts:

  • for the 1st and 8th district in the 1st,
  • for the 4th and 5th district in the 5th,
  • for the 6th and 7th district in the 7th,
  • for the 13th and 14th district in the 13th.

Hence Vienna has 19 district offices.

Since 2002, in Austria, instead of the police the mayors are responsible for objects found in public places. In Vienna, the mayor has ordered the district offices to perform the functions police stations have performed concerning found objects until then. Since 2005, by federal law the districts in all of Austria are responsible for issuing passports and registering residents, tasks until then covered in Vienna by the Federal Police. The mayor of Vienna again has ordered the district offices of the Magistrat to perform these functions.

Optimizing overhead costs has gone farther with the Federal Police in Vienna. The 23 District Police Commands in 2002 have been reduced to 14 City Police Commands. Reducing the number of small districts by mergers, as happened in Berlin after the 1990 reunification of Germany, has not even been discussed in Vienna, since the district assemblies function as breeding factories for the political parties' representatives.

See also

For the creation and administration of the districts, see Vienna § Districts and enlargement.

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References

  1. ↑ "Alle Bezirke in Wien - Offizielle Übersicht". www.wien.gv.at (in German). Retrieved 8 November 2024.
  2. ↑ "Dezentralisierung - Entscheidungsorgane der Bezirke". www.wien.gv.at (in German). Retrieved 8 November 2024.

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