Penzing () is the 14th borough of Vienna and consists of the localities of Penzing, Breitensee,

Baumgarten Baumgarten (german: tree garden) may refer to: Places *Baumgarten, Burgenland, Austria *Baumgarten, Vienna, Austria *Baumgarten an der March, Austria (the natural gas hub) *Baumgarten, Germany, a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany Oth ...

, Hütteldorf and Hadersdorf-Weidlingau. In the west, it shares a border with Purkersdorf and

Mauerbach Mauerbach is a town on the western boundary of Vienna, Austria. Population Sights It hosts the summer houses of many rich Viennese families as well as Mauerbach Charterhouse (''Kartause Mauerbach''), a Carthusian monastery founded in 1313, clos ...

. A large portion of the district is made up of greenery, including the Steinhof park, the Dehnepark and a portion of the Wienerwald.

Sights

* Fuchs Mansion: Mansion and studio of the painter Ernst Fuchs * Otto-Wagner-Hospital: Hospital building erected from 1904 to 1907 as ''Niederösterreichische Landes-Heil- und Pflegeanstalt für Nerven- und Geisteskranke 'Am Steinhof ("

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt ...

n State Healing and Care Institution for Nervous and Mental Patients ''Am Steinhof''"). The famous Jugendstil

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

Otto Wagner Otto Koloman Wagner (; 13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau mov ...

participated in the planning. The complex includes the Kirche am Steinhof, the ''Jugendstiltheater'' and a memorial site for

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hit ...

crimes in

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. * Fuhrmannhaus: oldest still existing building in the west of Vienna with a baroque fresco hall *

Weststadion Allianz Stadion is a football stadium which is built on the site of the former Gerhard Hanappi Stadium as the new home of SK Rapid Wien. In international matches the stadium has the no-commercial name Weststadion. Demolition of the old stadium ...

: Home of

SK Rapid Vienna Sportklub Rapid Wien (), commonly known as Rapid Vienna, is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the first title in the season 1911–12, ...

File:Penzing (Wien) - Kirche am Steinhof (4).JPG, Kirche am Steinhof File:Fuhrmannhaus Freskensaal Decke.jpg, Fuhrmannhaus, ceiling fresco File:Penzing.JPG, Aerial view of Penzing with Otto-Wagner-Spital near the top of the photo (three rows of big buildings), square-shaped

Gerhard Hanappi Stadium The Gerhard-Hanappi-Stadion was a football stadium in Hütteldorf, in the west of Vienna, Austria. It was the home ground of Rapid Vienna. It was officially opened in 1977 as ''"Weststadion"'' (Western stadium). In 1980 it was renamed to honou ...

downwards from it, and

between them, with its sizable Baumgartner Cemetery.

People

(1841 – 1918), born here * Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852 – 1925), born here *

Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's p ...

(1862, Baumgarten – 1918), painter *

Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick Ernest Augustus (Ernest Augustus Christian George; german: Ernst August Christian Georg; 17 November 1887 – 30 January 1953) was the reigning Duchy of Brunswick, Duke of Brunswick from 2 November 1913 to 8 November 1918. He was a grandson of Geor ...

(1887 – 1953), born here * Siegfried Marcus, buried here * Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874-1954), born here

References

External links

Penzing
on Vienna's official website
Weather and webcam
Districts of Vienna {{Austria-geo-stub