Mariahilf (;
Central Bavarian
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: ''Mariahüf'') is the 6th municipal
district of Vienna,
Austria
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(german: 6. Bezirk). It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850.
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It has a population of 31,621 (as of 2016-01-01) within an area of .
Location
Mariahilf is located southwest of Vienna's centre ( 1st district). In the north, Mariahilfer Straße, Vienna's most important shopping street
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, is its border with Neubau
Neubau (; Central Bavarian: ''Neibau'') is the seventh district of Vienna (german: 7. Bezirk). It is located near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but borders changed later. Neubau is a heavily populated urban area, ...
, in the south, the valley of the Vienna River
The Wien is a river that flows through Austria's capital Vienna.
Geography
The river Wien is long, of which are within the city. Its drainage basin covers an area of , both in the city and in the neighbouring Vienna Woods. Its source lies in ...
, in the west, the Gürtel beltway.
It consists of the five neighbourhoods (historical ''Vorstädte
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Historically, a ''Vorstadt'' ("suburb" ...
'', i.e. towns): Mariahilf
Mariahilf (; Central Bavarian: ''Mariahüf'') is the 6th municipal district of Vienna, Austria (german: 6. Bezirk). It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850. Mariahilf is a heavily populated urban area with many res ...
, Gumpendorf
Mariahilf (; Central Bavarian: ''Mariahüf'') is the 6th municipal district of Vienna, Austria (german: 6. Bezirk). It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850. Mariahilf is a heavily populated urban area with many re ...
, Windmühle, Magdalenengrund and Laimgrube.
History
First settlements around the Roman roads
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of the area developed around the year 1000. In 1428, the name ''Im Schöff'' is mentioned for the first time, but this name was lost when the copy of a sacral painting from Passau
Passau (; bar, label=Central Bavarian, Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, also known as the Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers") as the river Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.
Passau's popu ...
was installed in a chapel of the graveyard, which came to be known as ''Mariahilf'' ("Mary
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* Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name)
Religious contexts
* New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below
* Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...
's help").
More intensive settlement started only after the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna in 1683. The area was of some importance because the road to Schönbrunn Palace
Schönbrunn Palace (german: Schloss Schönbrunn ; Central Bavarian: ''Schloss Scheenbrunn'') was the main summer residence of the Habsburg rulers, located in Hietzing, Vienna. The name ''Schönbrunn'' (meaning “beautiful spring”) has its root ...
led through it.
''Gumpendorf'' was mentioned in 1130 for the first time and developed from a Roman
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*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...
watchtower. It was subject to various feudal
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lords and was sold to the municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
of Vienna in 1798.
''Magdalenengrund'' was originally known as ''Im Saugraben an der Wien auf der Gstätten'' ("In the sow pit on the Wien
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on the meadow") and consisted only of vineyard
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s. In 1698, some plots were released for construction.
The ''Laimgrube'' (clay
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Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...
pit) is probably the oldest part of Mariahilf. It was mentioned in 1291 for the first time, but has existed already since the 11th century. Its name is derived from the clay
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Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...
soil, which was used to produce brick
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s.
''Windmühle'' (windmill) developed from a feudal holding used by various monastic order
Monasticism (from Ancient Greek , , from , , 'alone'), also referred to as monachism, or monkhood, is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work. Monastic life plays an important role ...
s. In 1529 it was destroyed during the First Turkish Siege. Emperor Ferdinand I had the ownership transferred to ''Johann Francolin'', subject to the condition that he should build windmill
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s there. However, he had only one mill built.
On March 6, 1850, the five ''Vorstädte'' of Gumpendorf, Mariahilf, Windmühle, Magdalenengrund and Laimgrube became part of Vienna as the Fifth District, Mariahilf. When Wieden
Wieden (; Central Bavarian: ''Wiedn'') is the 4th municipal district of Vienna, Austria (german: 4. Bezirk). It is near the centre of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but its borders were changed later. Wieden is a small region ...
was split into two districts in 1861, it became the 6th District. In 1862, some areas north of Mariahilfer Straße were ceded to the 7th District (Neubau
Neubau (; Central Bavarian: ''Neibau'') is the seventh district of Vienna (german: 7. Bezirk). It is located near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but borders changed later. Neubau is a heavily populated urban area, ...
).
Towards the end of the 19th century, Mariahilf had developed to become an important business district of Vienna. The Mariahilfer Strasse was a major shopping street; however, the big department stores were beyond the district boundary, over in the 7th District. The Mariahilfer area influenced the roads for mainly small and medium-sized businesses.
Between 1890 and 1907, the Kaunitzgasse steam power plant became one of the first electricity works in Vienna. Following the acquisition of the originally privately operated power plant, by the municipality of Vienna, it was decommissioned and converted into a substation.
"Erinnern für die Zukunft" (Remembrance for the Future) is a memorial project for the many residents of Mariahilf district who were murdered by the Nazi dictatorship in the 1938-1945 period.
Mariahilf is home to many of Vienna's gay
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While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...
and lesbian
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residents and contains a sizable concentration of bars, clubs, restaurants and shops catering to the community, along with the Rosa Lila Villa
Rosa Lila Villa is an Austrian LGBT center situated in the Linke Wienzeile Buildings neighbourhood of Vienna. It is designed as a housing project, restaurant, event and counseling venue for LGBT people in Austria.
History
The initiative to foun ...
community center.
In the 1990s, there were two minor changes in the district boundaries: in 1995 in the area of the belt on the border at the 15th District, and 1996 in the Europe Square in front of the West Railway Station, where the 6th, 7th and 15th District meet. Both border changes affected mainly the transport structures. The district affiliation of residential areas did not change.
Population
Population development
The Mariahilf District was already, after its 1850 founding, very densely populated. In 1869, the district area had 67,642 inhabitants, a figure that was never surpassed. Until the beginning of the First World War, the population declined only slightly and remained largely stable. After the First World War began, the population almost continuously decreased. However, according to the last census in 2001, the population has largely stabilized and since 2006 has even risen slightly to 29,523 people.
Population structure
The age of people in Mariahilf, in 2001, differed in several ways from the Vienna citywide averages. So, Mariahilf had fewer children, but more young adults than the average for Vienna. In 2001, the proportion of residents under 15 years was, with 12.4%, below the Vienna value of 14.7%. The population aged 20 to 39 years in Mariahilf was, with 34.4%, more than the Vienna-average of 30.9%. The proportion of the population aged 60 years or more was 19.2%, slightly below the Vienna average (21.7%). The gender distribution in the district area corresponded to the community trend, with 47.1% men and 52.9% women. Mariahilf's 35.8% compared, against Vienna's city average of 41.2%, as much less often married than the average for Vienna.
Origin and language
The proportion of foreign-district residents in 2005 was 19.6% (Vienna citywide: 18.7%), and increased over 2001 (17.8%), along with the rising trend in the entire State. The highest proportion of foreigners, in 2005, represented approximately a 3.6% share of the district population as nationals from Serbia
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and Montenegro
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. Another 2.4% were Angolan, 1.5% Turkish
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, 1.3% Polish
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and 0.8% had Croatia
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n or Bosnia
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n citizenship. In total, for 2001, nearly 26.6% of the population of Mariahilf had not been born in Austria. About 5.6% expressed as a colloquial language Serbia
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n, with Turkish 3.5% and 2.3% Croatian.[
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Religious preferences
The religion of the people in Mariahilf, during the 2001 census, ranked about average for Vienna, only the proportion of people with Roman Catholic
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or Islam
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ic religion was slightly below average. In 2001, 47.4% of the inhabitants had membership in the Roman Catholic Church (Vienna citywide: 49.2%). There are three district Roman Catholic parishes, with the City Deanery 6 / 7. About 6.4% of residents were Islamic faith, 6.0% belonged to the Orthodox Church, and 5.2% were Protestant
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. Nearly 26.8% of the district population did not belong to any religious group, and 8.2% had no religion or other religious preference indicated.[
"Statistik Austria (Volkszählung 2001)", webpages:]
SA-g90601.pdf
and
SA-g90001.pdf
Politics
The Mariahilf district has always been contested between the political parties ÖVP
The Austrian People's Party (german: Österreichische Volkspartei , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria.
Since December 2021, the party has been led provisionally by Karl Nehammer. It is currentl ...
and SPÖ
The Social Democratic Party of Austria (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs , SPÖ), founded and known as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (german: link=no, Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs, SDAPÖ) unti ...
. While the ÖVP commanded the majority in the years after the Second World War until 1969, it lost the district to the SPÖ in that year. After the SPÖ lost the majority again in 1978, the ÖVP was able to dominate the following elections.
When the Greens entered the district politics in the late 80s, the ÖVP and SPÖ started to rapidly lose votes. The competition with the Liberal Forum
The Liberal Forum (german: Liberales Forum, LiF) was a centrist, Liberalism in Austria, liberal political party in Austria. The party was active from February 1993 to January 2014, when the party merged into NEOS – The New Austria.
A member ...
(LIF) in 1996 had a similar effect. The ÖVP also lost heavily in the elections of 2001. The SPÖ, after the losses of 1996, was able to compensate for its former losses and reclaimed the majority in the district.
In 2001 the Greens came in a close third to the ÖVP, whereas the Liberal Forum and the FPÖ
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suffered heavy losses. In the 2005 elections, the trend continued: The FPÖ lost heavily in the vote again and the Liberal Forum lost their seat on the district council, whereas the SPÖ and the Greens gained more votes. In 2005 the Greens came in second for the first time and thus attained the office of deputy district director. In the elections of 2010, the Greens and the ÖVP suffered heavy losses, while the SPÖ, FPÖ and BZÖ gained more votes.
Education
Beside some buildings of the Vienna University of Technology
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, Mariahilf hosts the Franz Schubert Conservatory and the central vocational schools for electrical engineering
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, information technology
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, metallurgy
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Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...
, glass-ceramic
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, sanitary engineering, heating
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...
engineering and air conditioning
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technology.
Coat of arms
The district's arms combine those of the five independent communities from which it was formed in 1850:
* The inescutcheon (for Mariahilf) shows Don John of Austria
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standing in a ship flying the imperial banner. His victory over the Turks in the naval battle of Lepanto
The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states (comprising Spain and its Italian territories, several independent Italian states, and the Soverei ...
was attributed to the help of the Virgin Mary
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* The first quarter (for Laimgrube) shows Saint Theobald in monastic garb before an altar; to his left stands a church. These arms go back to a chapel which was dedicated to St Theobald in 1621
* The second quarter (for Windmühle) also shows Saint Theobald, but as a bishop, with a church to his right
* The third quarter (for Magdalenengrund) shows the district's namesake Mary Magdelene kneeling before the cross
* The fourth quarter (for Gumpendorf) shows three fleurs-de-lys on a ''chapé ployé'' field. These were the arms of the Muschinger family, who were lords of Gumpendorf in the 16th century
Sights
* Arik Brauer House Arik is a given name, and may refer to:
In sports:
*Arik Benado, the captain of Maccabi Haifa
*Arik Gilbert (born 2002), American football player
* Ariel "Arik" Zeevi, Israeli judoka
In music:
*Arik Einstein, Israeli singer
*Arik Marshall, Ameri ...
* Mariahilf Fire Station
* Gustav Adolf Church
* The Haus des Meeres
The Haus des Meeres (HdM, English: ''House of the Sea'') is a public aquarium in Vienna, Austria. It is located in Esterhazy Park in downtown Mariahilf district, one block south of the busy Mariahilfer Straße. The Haus des Meeres houses over ten ...
aquarium in one of the flak tower
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s
* Mariahilfer Kirche (church)
* Gumpendorf Church
* Naschmarkt
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The Naschmarkt has existed since the 16th century when mainly milk bottles were sold (as milk bottles were made out of ash (wood from ...
* Fillgraderstiege
* Rosa Lila Villa
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History
The initiative to foun ...
- Vienna's LGBT
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The LGBT term is a ...
community center, also contains Cafe Willendorf
* Raimundtheater
The Raimund Theater is a theatre in the Mariahilf district of Vienna, Austria.
Named after the Austrian dramatist Ferdinand Raimund, the theatre was built by an association of Viennese citizens and opened on 28 November 1893 with Raimund's play ...
* Theater an der Wien
The is a historic theatre in Vienna located on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district. Completed in 1801, the theatre has hosted the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music. Since 2006, it has served prima ...
Theatres
The Theater an der Wien
The is a historic theatre in Vienna located on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district. Completed in 1801, the theatre has hosted the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music. Since 2006, it has served prima ...
, on Wienzeile, was built in 1801 and is now one of the composite of the United Stages Vienna. Ludwig van Beethoven
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lived between 1803-1804 part-time in the building, where today a memorial room is dedicated. On Wallgasse street at the other end of the district, is the Raimund Theater, named after Ferdinand Raimund
Ferdinand Raimund (born Ferdinand Jakob Raimann; 1 June 1790 – 5 September 1836, Pottenstein, Lower Austria) was an Austrian actor and dramatist.
Life and work
He was born in Vienna as a son of Bohemian woodturning master craftsman Jako ...
. The house, in the mid-1980s, belonged like the Theater an der Wien to the United Stages Vienna, and it is the venue for musicals. In addition to these two stages, there are smaller theaters, like the TAG, Theater an der Gumpendorferstraße, and the Theater Brett.
Museums
The District Museum of Mariahilf, on Mollardgasse street, is dedicated to, inter alia, focusing Ratzenstadl (Magdalenengrund), Theater an der Wien
The is a historic theatre in Vienna located on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district. Completed in 1801, the theatre has hosted the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music. Since 2006, it has served prima ...
, and the Palais Kaunitz-Esterhazy. In the same house is also the Phonographic Vienna Museum, which deals with the history of the phonograph
A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...
, also as the Glass Museum Mariahilf. A former flak tower
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is home to the ''Haus des Meeres'' ("house of the sea"), whose biggest attractions of the 2007 opening, included a 300,000 liter shark tank.
On Haydngasse street is located the Haydn-House of the composer Joseph Haydn
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, acquired in 1793 and inhabited until his death in 1809. Today, the house is a branch of the Vienna Museum
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. Other museums in Mariahilf are the ''Kaffeemuseum'' (coffee museum) with numerous exhibits on the topic of coffee, and the ''Sanitärhistorische Museum'' (Sanitary Historical Museum).
Notable residents
* Victor Adler
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Adler was born in Prague, the son of a Jewish merchant, who c ...
- Austria
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n Social Democrat
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ic leader
* Ludwig Anzengruber
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Origins
The Anzengruber line originated in the district of Ried im Innkreis in Upper Austria. Lu ...
- Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet
* Otto Bauer
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- Austria
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n Social Democrat
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* Ludwig van Beethoven
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- German composer
* Robert Bleichsteiner
Robert Bleichsteiner (6 January 1891 – 10 April 1954) was an Austrian ethnologist.
Life
Bleichsteiner was born in Mariahilf and attended the local grammar school from 1901 to 1909. He went on to study history, geography, ethnography and Oriental ...
(1891-1954) ethnologist
* Elfi von Dassanowsky
Elfriede "Elfi" von Dassanowsky (February 2, 1924October 2, 2007) was an Austrian-born singer, pianist and film producer.
Early life
Elfi von Dassanowsky (also known as Elfi Dassanowsky or Elfriede Dassanowsky) was born Elfriede Maria Elisabe ...
- Austrian-American singer, pianist, film producer and humanitarian
* Fanny Elssler
Fanny Elssler (born Franziska Elßler; 23 June 181027 November 1884) was an Austrian ballerina of the Romantic Period.
Life and career
She was born in Gumpendorf, a neighborhood of Vienna. Her father Johann Florian Elssler was a second ge ...
- Austrian ballerina
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* Joseph Haydn
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- composer
* Hans Krankl
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Club career
Krankl started his professional career at Rapid Wien and stayed ...
- Austria
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n former professional footballer
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* Franz Lehár
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* Siegfried Marcus
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* Carl Millöcker
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s and conductor
* Ferdinand Raimund
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* Emanuel Schikaneder
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* Michael Thonet
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* Eduard van der Nüll
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* Oskar Werner
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* Adolf Hitler
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Hamann, Brigitte (2010) ]999 999 or triple nine most often refers to:
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''Hitler's Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man''. Trans. Thomas Thornton. London; New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks. .
Notes
References
* "Wien - 6. Bezirk/Mariahilf", Wien.gv.at, 2008, webpage (15 subpages)
Wien.gv.at-mariahilf
(in German).
* Ernest Blaschek (Hg.): ''Mariahilf einst und jetzt'' (Mariahilf once and now). Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1926.
* Felix Czeike
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: ''Wiener Bezirkskulturführer: VI. Mariahilf'' (Vienna Cultural Leader: VI. Mariahilf). Jugend und Volk Jugend (from the German for 'youth') may refer to:
* Jugend (magazine), ''Jugend'' (magazine), an influential German art magazine published 1896–1940
** Jugendstil, an artistic movement associated with the magazine
* , an 1893 play by Max Halbe
* ...
, Vienna 1981, .
* Kunsthistorische Arbeitsgruppe GeVAG (Hg.): ''Wiener Fassaden des 19. Jahrhunderts: Wohnhäuser in Mariahilf'' (Vienna of the 19th Century: Residences in Mariahilf). Böhlau, Vienna 1976, .
* Carola Leitner (Hg.): ''Mariahilf: Wiens 6. Bezirk in alten Fotografien'' (Vienna's 6th District in Old Photographs). Ueberreuter
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Ueberr ...
, Wien 2007, .
* Susanne Schestak-Hörschläger: ''Mariahilf – die Wiege der Arbeiterbewegung: Geschichte der Sozialdemokratie in Mariahilf'' (Mariahilf - Part of the Worker's Movement: History of Social-democracy in Mariahilf). Verl. d. SPÖ Wien, Vienna 1989.
External links
*
Mariahilferstrasse
': Vienna's largest shopping street.
*
Rosa Lila Villa
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