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The districts of Vienna (
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: ''Wiener Gemeindebezirke'') are the 23 named city sections of
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, which are numbered for easy reference. 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
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(''Bezirke'') as defined by the federal constitution; Vienna is a statutory city and as such is a single administrative district in its entirety. The seats of ''Bezirksvorsteher'' (political district head) and ''Bezirksvertretung'' (district assembly) 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
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after the 1990
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, has not even been discussed in Vienna, since the district assemblies function as breeding factories for the political parties' representatives.


District locations

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The following are locations of the 23 districts: #
Innere Stadt The Innere Stadt (; Central Bavarian: ''Innare Stod'') is the 1st municipal Districts of Vienna, district of Vienna () located in the center of the Austrian capital. The Innere Stadt is the old town of Vienna. Until the city boundaries were expa ...
is the city centre, with numerous historical sites and few residents. # Leopoldstadt is the island between the Danube and the Donaukanal, with
Praterstern Praterstern is a major square in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna, Austria . The square features the column to Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff. Located and named after it are the Wien Praterstern railway station, and the connecting Prater ...
, Vienna's most frequented traffic spot, and the
Prater The Prater () is a large public park in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria. The Wurstelprater, an amusement park that is often simply called "Prater", lies in one corner of the Wiener Prater and includes the Wiener Riesenrad Ferris wheel. Name The n ...
with Vienna's iconic
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. # Landstraße is on the right bank of the Donaukanal, and includes the
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. # Wieden is a small district south of the city centre, and includes the Vienna University of Technology. # 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 Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) is a method of showing social, technological, biological, and historical connections in pictorial form. It consists of a set of standardized and abstracted pictorial symbols to repres ...
. # Mariahilf is a small district on the main shopping lane leading to Westbahnhof. #
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, ...
is a small district on main shopping lane leading to Westbahnhof, and includes the Museumsquartier, a large cultural complex. #
Josefstadt Josefstadt (; Central Bavarian: ''Josefstod'') is the eighth district of Vienna (german: 8. Bezirk, Josefstadt). It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but borders changed later. Josefstadt is a heavily po ...
is a small district close to the
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, and the
University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...
. #
Alsergrund Alsergrund (; Central Bavarian: ''Oisagrund'') is the ninth district of Vienna, Austria (german: 9. Bezirk, Alsergrund). It is located just north of the first, central district, Innere Stadt. Alsergrund was incorporated in 1862, with seven suburbs. ...
is the General Hospital district, and includes Sigmund Freud's residence. #
Favoriten Favoriten (; Central Bavarian: ''Favoritn''), the 10th district of Vienna, Austria (german: 10. Bezirk, Favoriten), is located south of the central districts. It is south of Innere Stadt, Wieden and Margareten. Favoriten is a heavily populat ...
is in the southern part of Vienna, and has the largest population, the new main train station, and the city's thermal spa. # Simmering is on the right bank of the Donaukanal, and includes the
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which is the main cemetery. # Meidling is on the southern bank of the Wien river. #
Hietzing Hietzing () is the 13th municipal District of Vienna (german: 13. Bezirk, Hietzing). It is located west of the central districts, west of Meidling. Hietzing is a heavily populated urban area with many residential buildings, but also contains lar ...
is on the southern bank of the Wien river, and includes Schönbrunn Palace. # 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. #
Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus () is the 15th municipal District of Vienna, Austria (german: 15. Bezirk). It is in central Vienna, west of Innere Stadt. It borders Neubau and Mariahilf in the east, Meidling and Hietzing in the south, Penzing in the wes ...
is on the northern bank of the Wien river. #
Ottakring Ottakring () is the 16th District in the city of Vienna, Austria (german: 16. Bezirk, Ottakring). It is located west of the central districts, north of Penzing and south of Hernals. Ottakring has some heavily populated urban areas with many resid ...
is on the western outskirts and includes Vienna's traditional brewery. #
Hernals Hernals (; Viennese German: Hernois) is the 17th district of Vienna, Austria (german: 17. Bezirk, Hernals). Hernals is in northwest Vienna.Statistik Austria, 2007, webpagestatistik.at-23450. Wien.gv.at webpage (see below: References). It was anne ...
is on the northwestern outskirts of Vienna. #
Währing Währing () is the 18th district of Vienna and lies in northwestern Vienna on the edge of the Vienna Woods. It was formed in 1892 from the unification of the older suburbs of Währing, Weinhaus, Gersthof, Pötzleinsdorf, Neustift am Walde and Sa ...
is on the northwestern outskirts of Vienna, and includes the Türkenschanzpark around which was founded the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. # Döbling is on the northern outskirts of Vienna, and includes the classical ''
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'' district. # Brigittenau is on the same island as Leopoldstadt, and was separated in 1900. # Floridsdorf is on the left bank of the Danube, and includes industry areas. It is the northernmost part of Vienna. #
Donaustadt Donaustadt (; literally, Danube City; Central Bavarian: ''Donaustod'') is the 22nd district of Vienna, Austria (german: 22. Bezirk, Donaustadt). Donaustadt is the eastern district of Vienna.Statistik Austria, 2007, webpage statistik.at-23450. ...
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
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as well as Vienna's largest conference center. # Liesing is the southernmost least population dense district, and includes the
Wotruba Church The Kirche Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit ( en, Church of the Most Holy Trinity) in Vienna, better known as the Wotruba Church, is located on the Sankt Georgenberg in Mauer (corner of Rysergasse and Georgsgasse) in Liesing, the 23rd District of ...
. 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
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located in Lower Austria near
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, 1400 for the UN Complex, 1450 for the
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, and 1500 for the Austrian UN-Forces. The numbering of the districts reflects to some degree when they were incorporated into Vienna. * The first district comprises not much more than Vienna's historic centre, which used to be the entire city until 1850. * Districts 2–9 (and 20 which was in 1900 separated from the second district), incorporated in 1850, are known as ''Innenbezirke'' (inner districts) and composed of the former
Vorstädte In German language, German, a Vorstadt is an area of a city that is outside the Altstadt (city center) but tightly connected to it and densely populated, thus distinguishing itself from a ''Vorort'' (suburb). Historically, a ''Vorstadt'' ("suburb" ...
, which were located inside the
Linienwall The ''Linienwall'' was an outer line of fortifications for the city of Vienna, Austria, which lay between the city's suburbs and outlying villages. Constructed in 1704, it was razed in 1894 to make way for the Vienna Beltway. Construction The c ...
, the second ring of fortifications around Vienna. Those districts are located within the Gürtel today. * The other districts, incorporated between 1874 and 1938, mainly in 1892, are known as ''Außenbezirke'' (outer districts) and are the former Vororte.


District populations

The following are current district populations, as of 2016-01-01 (sourceStatistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 1.1.2016)
, Statistik Austria.
):


See also

For the creation and administration of the districts, see . *
Arrondissements of Paris The Paris, City of Paris is divided into twenty ''Municipal arrondissements of France, arrondissements municipaux'', administrative districts, more simply referred to as ''arrondissements'' (). These are not to be confused with departmental arro ...
*
History of Vienna The history of Vienna has been long and varied, beginning when the Roman Empire created a military camp in the area now covered by Vienna's city centre. From that humble beginning, Vienna grew from the Roman settlement known as ''Vindobona'' to b ...
* List of urban areas in the European Union


References


External links

Districts of Vienna Interactive Map
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