Hietzing is the 13th municipal
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13. Bezirk, Hietzing). It is located west of the central districts, west of
MeidlingMeidling is the 12th district of Vienna . It is located just southwest of the central districts, south of the Wienfluss, west of the Gürtel belt, and east and southeast of Schönbrunn palace...
. Hietzing is a heavily populated urban area with many residential buildings, but also contains large areas of the Vienna Woods, along with
Schönbrunn PalaceSchönbrunn Palace is a former imperial summer residence in Vienna, Austria. One of the most important cultural monuments in the country, since the 1960s it has been one of the major tourist attractions in Vienna...
.
Geography
The thirteenth district is located at the western end of the city where it borders the
WienerwaldThe Vienna Woods is a low, wooded section of the Alps in eastern Lower Austria and Vienna. The area covers over 1,000 square kilometres and includes the northernmost parts of the entire Alpine chain.-Location:...
.
LiesingLiesing is the 23rd district of Vienna . It is on the southwest edge of Vienna, Austria.It was formed after Austria's Anschluss with Germany, when Vienna expanded from 21 districts to 26...
is to the south, Meidling to the east and
PenzingPenzing is the 14th District of Vienna and consists of the boroughs of Penzing, Breitensee, Baumgarten, Hütteldorf and Hadersdorf-Weidlingau. In the west, it shares a border with Purkersdorf and Mauerbach...
, which was part of Hietzing until 1954, and
Rudolfsheim-FünfhausRudolfsheim-Fünfhaus is the 15th district of Vienna . It is in the west part of central Vienna, Austria....
, to the north. Most of the northern border is formed by the River Wien.
Traditionally, it is subdivided into six parts:
Hietzing (northeast),
Unter Sankt Veit (northwest),
Ober Sankt Veit (west of Unter Sankt Veit),
Hacking (northwest of Ober Sankt Veit),
Lainz (geographic centre) and
Speising (south).
Furthermore, the
Lainzer TiergartenThe Lainzer Tiergarten is a 24.50 km² wildlife preserve in the southwest corner of Vienna, Austria, 80% of it being covered in woodland. It dates back to 1561, when Ferdinand I of Austria created it as a fenced-in hunting ground for his family to use. Since 1919, it has been open to the public...
, a large park in the Wienerwald populated by
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s, and
Schönbrunn PalaceSchönbrunn Palace is a former imperial summer residence in Vienna, Austria. One of the most important cultural monuments in the country, since the 1960s it has been one of the major tourist attractions in Vienna...
and the surrounding parks are part of Hietzing.
District sections
Hietzing was formed from the six former municipalities Hietzing, Unter-St.-Veit, Ober-St.-Vitus, Hacking, Lainz and Speising, and is now divided into nine Katastralgemeinden. Six of the Katastralgemeinden broadly align with the former municipal areas. Rosenberg as well as its own Schönbrunn form Katastralgemeinden. Comes to Katastralgemeinde add Auhof, which covers large parts of the district area and essentially Lainzer Tiergarten. Even a small part of Katastralgemeinden
HütteldorfHütteldorf is a part of Vienna's 14th district, Penzing. It is located in the west of Vienna, but roughly in the geographical center of the district, stretching roughly from Deutschordenstraße in the east to Wolf in der Au in the west, where Hütteldorf borders Hadersdorf-Weidlingau.Hütteldorf is...
and Unterbaumgarten (14th District) are on Hietzinger area.
A breakdown of the district area is also in the census-districts of official statistics in which the
censusA "census" is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population.In other words every 10 years...next one would be in 2010 The term is used mostly in connection with...
figures of the district municipalities are combined. The eleven census-districts of Hietzing are: Schönbrunn, Hietzing, Auhofstraße, Ober-St.-Veit, Gemeindeberg-Jagdschloßgasse, Lainz, Maxing, Speising, Altersheim Lainz (today: Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald), Lainzer Tiergarten and Friedensstadt. Despite partial name matches, the boundaries of the census-districts do not match with those of Katastralgemeinden.
Land use
The developed area of Hietzing includes only 21.5% (33.3% Vienna-wide) of area of the district, where this is the second lowest value of a municipality of Vienna. The space itself is distributed as 78.7% to 16.5%, for residential areas versus total area of cultural, religious, or sports venues (devoted to public purposes). This relatively high figure is comparted to one for a Viennese township as a very low proportion of farmland (4.3% of the area to be developed).
Greenspace in Hietzing takes in a share of 71.7%. This is the highest value in Vienna, where the largest area of
Lainzer TiergartenThe Lainzer Tiergarten is a 24.50 km² wildlife preserve in the southwest corner of Vienna, Austria, 80% of it being covered in woodland. It dates back to 1561, when Ferdinand I of Austria created it as a fenced-in hunting ground for his family to use. Since 1919, it has been open to the public...
is included. Nearly 73.4% of green space is accounted for by forest, 15.5% more green space are the meadows, parks 6.3%, and 2.5% in small gardens. Agricultural land (1.5%) and leisure areas (10.8%), are only a small proportion of green space territories.
Waters in Hietzing take in an area of 0.8% (Wienerwald streams in Lainzer Tiergarten). The proportion of traffic areas in the district region is, with 6.0%, the lowest value in Vienna.
Space allocation in 2003
| Builtspace |
Greenspace |
Water |
Transport areas |
| 808.8 |
2,703.6 |
29.2 |
227.6 |
| Residences |
Oper-
ations |
Public Facilities |
Farms |
Parks |
Forests |
Meadows |
Small gardens |
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areas |
|
|
| 636.4 |
34.68 |
133.7 |
41.53 |
171.4 |
1,984.3 |
66.88 |
418.07 |
21.64 |
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From village to suburb of Vienna
The name "Hietzing" derives itself from "Hiezo" or "Hezzo" (short form of "Heinrich"). The first authentic mention comes from the year 1130. Since 1253 the Klosterneuburg Abbey appeared. The oldest properties were in the area of Altgasse, north therefrom (direction of the Wienfluss canal) were cattle meadows, a few south fields and expanded vineyards. In the vicinity of the Küniglberg and around the zone of the current Hietzinger cemetery, there was also a quarry as well as sand pits and gravel pits whose material was used in the building of Schoenbrunn castle.
Before the
first Turkish siegeThe Siege of Vienna in 1529 was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire, led by Suleiman the Magnificent, to capture the city of Vienna, Austria. The siege signalled the pinnacle of the Ottoman Empire's power and great rivalry with Europe as well as the maximum extent of Ottoman expansion in...
(1529), Hietzing was an emerging wine-making place. After the heavy destruction, the place recovered quickly. The Mid-17th century began the transformation of the vineyards into farmland. The growing popularity of the pilgrimage site, "Maria Hietzing" required the expansion of Seelsorge. Choir house and community inn were erected where pilgrims had a possible overnight stay.
The
second Turkish siegeThe Battle of Vienna took place on 11 and 12 September 1683 after Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months...
(1683) devastated the place and the remaining vineyards. The place was almost depopulated, and the new settlement proceeded only slowly. The construction of the castle Schoenbrunn, which was built on the site of the destroyed 1683 Katterburg, eventually led to the great boom of the former village Hietzing. The proximity of the Imperial Court brought with it strong construction activity, but it was yet to create quarters for aristocrats and officials.
The rapid increase in the number of houses, in the late 18th and early 19th Century, changed the structure of the place. The new houses were built by people who occupied superior social position and, in Hietzing, spent the summer. This influx increased the earnings potential of the villagers and shapes the image of Hietzing to the present day.
In 1860, the current district area was reached by the first modern transportation: the connection train, Verbindungsbahn (Vienna), with stops in St. Veit, Lainz und Speising. The train was led through a very thinly populated zone at that time.
Incorporation
In 1890/1892, the current district areas were summarized (without the Lainzer Tiergarten zoo) and the suburbs north of the Vienna Wienfluss:
PenzingPenzing is the 14th District of Vienna and consists of the boroughs of Penzing, Breitensee, Baumgarten, Hütteldorf and Hadersdorf-Weidlingau. In the west, it shares a border with Purkersdorf and Mauerbach...
, Breitensee Baumgarten and
HütteldorfHütteldorf is a part of Vienna's 14th district, Penzing. It is located in the west of Vienna, but roughly in the geographical center of the district, stretching roughly from Deutschordenstraße in the east to Wolf in der Au in the west, where Hütteldorf borders Hadersdorf-Weidlingau.Hütteldorf is...
, then incorporated as the 13th District, with the name Hietzing.
Hietzing was reached from 1899 until 1925 with the Viennese operated Dampfloks city train (since 1981 U-train-lines U4) with its Vienna valley line. From 1907, the district was connected through electric streetcar lines (previously: horse train) with the city center. The stretches into the west of the district, after Ober-St.-Veit, and into the south over the district-section Speising to Mauer (today 23rd district) and Mödling, at that time both in lower Austria, were led a few more years as a Dampftramway.
The city of Vienna under Mayor
Karl LuegerKarl Lueger was an Austrian politician and mayor of Vienna.-Career:Born in Vienna, he graduated in law from the University of Vienna . He founded and led the Christian Social Party which took political power from the German Liberals in Vienna and combated the Social Democrats...
(term 1902–1904), in the district-section Lainz, allowed construction of 31 buildings collected as a "care home", later as a retirement home, then as a nursing home, and currently known as the Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald (Geriatric Center at the Vienna Woods).
The
RothschildRothschild is a German surname. It is a habitational name from a house distinguished with a red sign , the earliest recorded example dating from the 13th century....
Foundation opened a hospital in 1912 in the district-section Speising, one still existing today: Nathaniel Freiherr von Rothschild Foundation for Nerve Disease - Neurological Center of the city of Vienna - Rose Hill; the area thereto was specifically incorporated into Vienna.
In music history, gone is the entertainment Hietzinger Cafe Dommayer (In the ear nor the rustling waltz, [...] it comes from the Dommayer z'haus" as it was called in a song).
Two still very well-known Hietzinger residents in the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph were:
Johann Strauss IIJohann Strauss II was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas...
, the "Waltz King" and
Katharina SchrattKatharina Schratt was an Austrian actress who became "the uncrowned Empress of Austria" as the mistress and confidante of Emperor Franz Joseph....
, the confidante of the Emperor. Even the emperor himself, in his last years, lived year-round in Schoenbrunn, and thus in the district and died here in 1916. Of famous painters,
Egon SchieleEgon Schiele was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century....
died in the 13th District, in 1918.
In the period between the wars, the building of the work alliance settlement is remarkable.
1938 and the consequences
On 12 March 1938, in the district, resident Jewish Viennese as in the whole "Ostmark" moment of spontaneous mob, a little later bureaucratically organized deprived, expropriated and expelled or killed. Their villas were
"aryanised"Aryanisation in Nazism which literally means to make Aryan. It was principally used to refer to the expulsion of non-Aryans from Nazi Germany, Austria and the territories it controlled. It was based on the ideology of an Aryan master race and generally was to the benefit of Nazi supporters and...
; thus, the villa of the family Blaimschein at the corner Lainzer Straße / Wenzgasse, in April 1945, was made available by the Red Army State Registrar
Karl RennerKarl Renner was an Austrian politician. He was born in Untertannowitz and died in Vienna...
as the first residence in Vienna. (Today the building is the Iranian Embassy in Vienna.)
The district area north of Vienna was declared, at the Nazi-territorial reform of 15 October 1938 (see Greater-Vienna) to become the new 14th District, after which this district number was vacant by pooling of Rudolfsheim und Fünfhaus to the 15th District. By this
redistrictingRedistricting, a form of redistribution, is the process in the United States of changing political borders . This often means changing electoral district and constituency boundaries, usually in response to periodic census results. In 36 states, the state legislature has primary responsibility for...
, Hietzing had lost 94,000 of its 140,000 inhabitants from 1934.
The magistrate for the 13th and 14th District is located in Hietzing currently.
In 1938/1939, the Nazi regime set forth in a pheasant garden behind the Schlosspark of Schoenbrunn, started military construction, and built an SS
barracksBarracks are living quarters for personnel on a military post. They are typically very plain and all of the buildings in the housing unit are often uniform structures.-History:...
. It is now under the name of Maria Theresa Barracks, or Fasanengarten barracks, used by the armed forces. During the Second World War, the district showed much smaller bomb damage than other districts, since no major industries or major railway lines existed.
After 1945
During the "occupation", Vienna had been conquered in the
Vienna OffensiveThe Vienna Offensive was launched by the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front in order to capture Vienna, Austria. The offensive lasted from April 2 to April 13, 1945...
of the Red Army on April 13. From autumn 1945 to autumn 1955, Vienna was occupied by the four Allied powers, and the 13th District belonged to the British sector. Ceremonial appearances of the British army took place in the main courtyard of Schoenbrunn Castle instead. In 1952, key scenes were shot there of the Austrian film "1. April 2000" (director:
Wolfgang LiebeneinerWolfgang Liebeneiner was a German actor and film and theater director.In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing...
), in which the Austrian Government finally gets rid of the occupying powers in the year 2000. In the film, a spaceship lands in Ehrenhof, as thousands of people watched.
The
Lainzer TiergartenThe Lainzer Tiergarten is a 24.50 km² wildlife preserve in the southwest corner of Vienna, Austria, 80% of it being covered in woodland. It dates back to 1561, when Ferdinand I of Austria created it as a fenced-in hunting ground for his family to use. Since 1919, it has been open to the public...
became, through the 1938 territorial reform, part of the urban area. Hietzing became incorporated first in 1956, resulting in vastly larger surface area. Until then, it had belonged to the District
LiesingLiesing is the 23rd district of Vienna . It is on the southwest edge of Vienna, Austria.It was formed after Austria's Anschluss with Germany, when Vienna expanded from 21 districts to 26...
.
Since the late sixties, the
ORFORF may refer to:* Österreichischer Rundfunk, Austria's national public-service broadcaster* Open reading frame, a portion of the genome* The IATA airport code for Norfolk International Airport in Norfolk, Virginia...
operates, which by
Roland RainerRoland Rainer was an Austrian architect.Born in Klagenfurt, Roland Rainer decided to become an architect when he was 18, so he studied at the Vienna University of Technology. His thesis was about the Karlsplatz in Vienna. Then, he left Austria visiting the Netherlands and the German Academy for...
designed and in 1975 completed ORF center Küniglberg, in which central TV and radio studios and directors and management of the public broadcaster are located. The name of the unassuming hill in the 13th District has since been used as a synonym for the ORF in the Austrian media discussion omnipresent. The building is, 40 years after its creation, renovated, and the financial problems of ORF were ridden about 2008, the headquarters of the Institute to relocate.
In 1997, at Rosenhügel (rose hill) in the area of Bertégasse und Wastlgasse, a slight modification was made to the border at the District Liesing, which mainly affected a small rural settlement.
For details on the history of the district, see District sections; for the 1938 detached parts of the district, see:
PenzingThere are two places called Penzing:*Penzing , a suburb of Vienna, Austria*Penzing, Germany, a village near the Bavarian town of Landsberg am Lech in Germany...
.
Population
Population development
In 1869, the current area of the Hietzing District included only 9,808 inhabitants. Due to the low population density at that time, Hietzing was one of the few districts which had a persistent population growth. Before the start of the First World War, the population in 1910, with 34,883 inhabitants, had more than tripled, but then the growth slowed down. In 1971, the district reached 57,068 people, the highest population to date. Then the population stagnated, falling 4% during the next 2 decades, and later dropping another 10% in the 1990s, but rose gradually after the millennium year. From 2001, the population in Vienna city-wide trended to grow, including in Hietzing. At the beginning of 2007, the population stood at 51,120 people.
Population structure
The average age of Hietzinger population in 2001 was significantly higher than the average in Vienna. Fundamentals are the high density of pensioners-houses, a large nursing home in Lainz (Geriatriezentrum at Wienerwald) and a very small proportion of foreigners. The number of children under 15 years stood at 13.0%, as only slightly below the Vienna average of 14.7%. The proportion of the population from 15 to 59 years, however, with 56.8% (Vienna: 63.6%), was strongly below average. The proportion of people aged 60 years or more in 2001 was 30.2% (Vienna: 21.7%), the highest of the whole of Vienna. Due to the high proportion of older people in 2001, the proportion of women in Hietzing was the largest in Vienna: 44.3% men, 55.7% were women. The number of Hietzing married had a share of 42.8%, compared with Vienna city-wide 41.2%, so slightly above the average of Vienna [6].
Origin and language
The proportion of foreign district residents in 2005 was 10.4% (Vienna city-wide: 18.7%) and has over 2001 (7.9%) in Vienna as strong rising trend. The highest proportion of foreigners in 2005 represented approximately 2.1% share of the district population of nationals from Germany. Hietzing was next to the inner city as the district with the highest German foreign residents. Another 1.4% were citizens of Serbia and Montenegro, 0.7% were Polish, 0.5% Turkish, and 0.4% Slovak citizens. In 2001, a total of 16.3% of the population of the Hietzing District was not born in Austria. Nearly 1.9% expressed as a language Serbian, 0.5% Turkish, and 1.0% Croatian.
Religious preferences
The distribution of religious preferences of the population in the 13th District, in 2001, differed most from the average in Vienna. With 57.7% of residents being Roman Catholic (Vienna: 49.2%), it is the highest of all districts of Vienna. There are 8 districts of Roman Catholic parishes, the city Deanery 13 images. Also, the percentage of people with Protestant religion reached 7.4%, as the highest value of a Vienna district. The proportion of people with different religions, on other hand, was very low: 1.7% is known to Islam, 2.1% for the orthodoxy. About 24.5% said they had no religious community, another 6.6% gave no information about this or any other religion mentioned.
Politics
| District Leader since 1945 |
| Hans Mayer (KPÖ Meanings of KPO:* Knowledge process outsourcing.* KPÖ , Communist Party of Austria.* Kommunistische Partei-Opposition, Communist Party Opposition.* KPO, a San Francisco radio station that later became known as KNBR....
) |
4/1945–7/1945 |
| Anton Figl (SPÖ -Economics:* Secondary Public Offering, an equity capital market instrument* Strong Pareto optimum, a concept in economics when no further improvements can be made-Linguistics:* Subject, Predicate, Object indicating the predominant word order in a natural language...
) |
7/1945–1946 |
| Josef Cudlin (ÖVP OVP is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:*The Office of the Vice President of the United States*The Office of the Vice President of the Philippines*OVP , a light sub-machine gun developed in Italy...
) |
1946–1950 |
| Otmar Hassenberger (ÖVP OVP is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:*The Office of the Vice President of the United States*The Office of the Vice President of the Philippines*OVP , a light sub-machine gun developed in Italy...
) |
1950–1953 |
| Ernst Florian (ÖVP OVP is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:*The Office of the Vice President of the United States*The Office of the Vice President of the Philippines*OVP , a light sub-machine gun developed in Italy...
) |
1953–1959 |
| Josef Fischer (SPÖ -Economics:* Secondary Public Offering, an equity capital market instrument* Strong Pareto optimum, a concept in economics when no further improvements can be made-Linguistics:* Subject, Predicate, Object indicating the predominant word order in a natural language...
) |
1959–1964 |
| Josef Gerstbach (ÖVP OVP is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:*The Office of the Vice President of the United States*The Office of the Vice President of the Philippines*OVP , a light sub-machine gun developed in Italy...
) |
1964–1969 |
| Eduard Popp (SPÖ -Economics:* Secondary Public Offering, an equity capital market instrument* Strong Pareto optimum, a concept in economics when no further improvements can be made-Linguistics:* Subject, Predicate, Object indicating the predominant word order in a natural language...
) |
1969–1976 |
| Eugen Gutmannsbauer (SPÖ -Economics:* Secondary Public Offering, an equity capital market instrument* Strong Pareto optimum, a concept in economics when no further improvements can be made-Linguistics:* Subject, Predicate, Object indicating the predominant word order in a natural language...
) |
1976–1978 |
| Elfriede Bischof (ÖVP OVP is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:*The Office of the Vice President of the United States*The Office of the Vice President of the Philippines*OVP , a light sub-machine gun developed in Italy...
) |
1978–1990 |
| Heinz Gerstbach (ÖVP OVP is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:*The Office of the Vice President of the United States*The Office of the Vice President of the Philippines*OVP , a light sub-machine gun developed in Italy...
) |
1990– |
The role as majority-party and thereby the claim to the District Director has long been disputed between the
SPÖ-Economics:* Secondary Public Offering, an equity capital market instrument* Strong Pareto optimum, a concept in economics when no further improvements can be made-Linguistics:* Subject, Predicate, Object indicating the predominant word order in a natural language...
and
ÖVPOVP is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:*The Office of the Vice President of the United States*The Office of the Vice President of the Philippines*OVP , a light sub-machine gun developed in Italy...
political parties: the traditional, conservative-oriented residential neighborhoods, versus the "public housing" complexes and the large nursing home Lainz, both with a predominantly social democratic electorate. In the postwar years, initially from 1946 to 1959, the ÖVP named the District Director. Afterward, the majority alternated as the most votes from the ÖVP or SPÖ party. From 1978, the ÖVP was able to regain its position as the largest party; they could hold this position until today.
While the ÖVP majority has been relatively stable since 1991, in later election results, starting from 1996, the Social Democrats slipped to a low point, from which benefited in particular the Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the Liberal Forum (LiF). After the electoral defeats of the FPÖ and LiF in 2001 and 2005, the SPÖ was able to regain votes. In 2005, the Greens overtook the Freedom Party (
FPÖFPO may refer to:*Fleet Post Office, a "city" designation in military mail*For position only, a designation for placeholder graphics*The Florida Philharmonic Orchestra*Frame pointer omission, an technique in compiler optimization*Freedom Party of Austria...
) and rose to the third strongest force.
District Vote levels 1991-2005
| Jahr |
SPÖ -Economics:* Secondary Public Offering, an equity capital market instrument* Strong Pareto optimum, a concept in economics when no further improvements can be made-Linguistics:* Subject, Predicate, Object indicating the predominant word order in a natural language...
|
ÖVP OVP is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:*The Office of the Vice President of the United States*The Office of the Vice President of the Philippines*OVP , a light sub-machine gun developed in Italy...
|
FPÖ FPO may refer to:*Fleet Post Office, a "city" designation in military mail*For position only, a designation for placeholder graphics*The Florida Philharmonic Orchestra*Frame pointer omission, an technique in compiler optimization*Freedom Party of Austria...
|
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|
LIF |
Sonstige |
| 1991 |
37.7 |
38.2 |
15.4 |
8.2 |
n.k |
0.5 |
| 1996 |
29.0 |
38.6 |
16.8 |
7.1 |
7.0 |
1.5 |
| 2001 |
31.7 |
36.7 |
15.1 |
12.2 |
3.7 |
0.7 |
| 2005 |
33.4 |
39.5 |
8.8 |
16.0 |
0.5 |
2.4 |
Coat of arms
The crest of the Hietzing District consists of five parts: Hietzing (center), Hacking (top left), Sankt Veit (top right), Speising (bottom left) and Lainz (bottom right). In the tree crown, one finds the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus, in the golden rays of the cross, flanked by two angels. Under the tree, four farmers are praying.
There is a legend as to the origin of the Mother of God in the emblem, but also the origin of the name derived Hietzing. During the 2nd Turkish Siege, Hietzing was still a small village. When the Turks advanced, Hietzinger had to hide a valuable statue from her parish church in the crown of a large oak tree, and then sought refuge in nearby Vienna. Four young farmers had one day ventured into the deserted city. There, they were promptly taken prisoner by a Turkish patrol and tied to a tree: just at the tree where the statue was hidden. The four unfortunates had since begun to pray to the Mother of God, when their chains fell and a voice from the tree uttered the words: "Hiatz eng!" (Hütet Euch! or "Beware!"). In gratitude for the salvation of the four men, then the place was named after these cautionary words of the Mother of God; the passage of time had changed the name to "Hietzing".
Sights
- Schönbrunn Castle: These are the imperial apartments. In an adjoining building, there is the Wagenburg of the Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, crowned with an octagonal dome, is one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world...
, which contains a collection of over 100 wagons, carriages, litters and sedan chairs, with its train and Reit-geschirren which have been used by the imperial court. The connected, not publicly available, uniform depot dates back to the livery-coat of Colonel squire Office and is one of the world's finest collections of court dress from the 19th and early 20 Century. In the park are the Palm House, the GlorietteA gloriette is a building in a garden erected on a site that is elevated with respect to the surroundings...
and the oldest existing zoo in the world, the Tiergarten Vienna Zoo.
In the old Towncenter of Hietzing:
- Hietzinger Parish Church
- District Museum of Hietzing (near the church)
- Café Dommayer
- Hietzinger Cemetery (graves of Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer , an Austrian dramatic poet, was born in Vienna.-Early life:His father, severe, pedantic, and a staunch upholder of the liberal traditions of the reign of Joseph II, was an advocate of some standing; his mother, a nervous, high-strung woman, belonged to the well-known...
, Otto WagnerOtto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect.Wagner was born in Penzing, a district in Vienna. He studied in Berlin and Vienna. In 1864, he started designing his first buildings in the historicist style...
, Gustav KlimtGustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery...
, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Engelbert Dollfuß, Rudolf Prack, Heinz Conrads)
- Various single- or multi-family homes which are interesting for reasons of architecture or history (in that kind of a house lives Sophie - one of the main characters in Elfriede Jelinek's book Die Ausgesperrten - English title: Wonderful, wonderful times)
- Hackinger Steg, a pedestrian bridge over the River Wien
- Kennedybrücke (Kennedy Bridge)
- ORF
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-Zentrum
- Various churches
- Schönbrunn Palace
Schönbrunn Palace is a former imperial summer residence in Vienna, Austria. One of the most important cultural monuments in the country, since the 1960s it has been one of the major tourist attractions in Vienna...
- Palmenhaus Schönbrunn
- Cemetery - Famous people buried include Gustav Klimt
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and Engelbert DollfussEngelbert Dollfuß was an Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman, who was chancellor of Austria from 1932 and right-wing dictator of Austria from 1933 until his assassination by Nazi agents in 1934....
- Tiergarten Schönbrunn
Tiergarten Schönbrunn or Zoo Vienna is a zoo located on the grounds of the famous Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria...
- Lainzer Tiergarten
The Lainzer Tiergarten is a 24.50 km² wildlife preserve in the southwest corner of Vienna, Austria, 80% of it being covered in woodland. It dates back to 1561, when Ferdinand I of Austria created it as a fenced-in hunting ground for his family to use. Since 1919, it has been open to the public...
- Residences
- Wildsau, a traditional restaurant located at the edge of the Lainzer Tiergarten with a good view over Vienna
Vienna is the capital of the Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 10th largest city by...
Notable residents
- Lothar Abel (1841 - 1896), architect (u. a. Palais Chotek
Palais Chotek is a baroque palace in Vienna. It is owned by the noble Chotek von Chotkova und Wognin family. It is located in the IX. district of Alsergrund.- External links :...
, Vienna) (de)
- Paul Amann (1884 - 1958), writer, translator (de)
- Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born novelist and non-fiction writer of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.-Life:...
(1905 - 1994), Bulgaria-born author and Nobel prize laureate
- Helene von Druskowitz
Helene von Druskowitz was an Austrian philosopher, writer and music critic. She was the second woman to obtain a Doctorate in Philosophy, which she obtained in Zürich...
(1856 - 1918), philosopher, feminist
- Heinz Fischer
Heinz Fischer is the federal president of Austria. He took office on 8 July 2004.-Biography:Born in Graz, Styria, Fischer received a humanistic education, taking his "Matura" exams in 1956. He then studied law at the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1961...
(born 1938), President of AustriaThe Austrian Federal President is the federal head of state of Austria. Though theoretically entrusted with great power by the constitution, in practice the President acts, for the most part, merely as a ceremonial figurehead. The President of Austria is directly elected by universal adult...
- Thomas Klestil
Thomas Klestil was an Austrian diplomat and politician. He was elected Federal President of Austria in 1992 and was re-elected to the position in 1998...
(1932 - 2004), former President of AustriaThe Austrian Federal President is the federal head of state of Austria. Though theoretically entrusted with great power by the constitution, in practice the President acts, for the most part, merely as a ceremonial figurehead. The President of Austria is directly elected by universal adult...
- Karl Münichreiter (1891 - 1934), antifascist resistance fighter fighter (de)
- Wolfgang Schüssel
Wolfgang Schüssel is a Christian Democratic Austrian politician. He was Chancellor of Austria from February 2000 to January 2007...
(born 1945), former Chancellor of AustriaThe Chancellor of Austria is the head of government in Austria. The chancellor's deputy is the Vice Chancellor. Before 1918, the equivalent office was the Minister-President of Austria.-Appointment:...
(2000-07)
- Erwin Strahl (born 1929), actor (de)
- Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas...
(1825 - 1899), composer, lived here
- Hedy Urach (1910-1943), Nazi-resistance (de)
Unter-St.-Veit (Unter Sankt Veit)
- Hildegard Burjan
Hildegard Burjan was the founder of a Catholic religious congregation for women and an Austrian politician.-Early life:...
(1883-1933), social reformer, lived 1925–1933 in the Larochegasse 35
- Friedrich Cerha
Friedrich Cerha is an Austrian composer and conductor.Cerha received his education at the Viennese Music Academy and at the University of Vienna...
(1926- ), composer, lived in the Kupelwiesergasse
- Franz André Heller, aka André Heller
Franz André Heller is an Austrian artist, author, singer and actor.Heller was born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family of sweets manufacturers ....
(born 1947), artist, author, singer; lived in the Villa in the Elßlergasse 9
- Josef Holaubek (1907-1999), Vienna police chief, lived and died in the Larochegasse 14 (de)
- Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery...
(1862-1918), painter (see Feldmühlgasse 11)
- Adolf Loos
Adolf Loos was one of the most important and influential Austrian and Czechoslovak architects of European Modern architecture. In his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, the Austrian version of Art Nouveau...
(1870-1933), Moravia-born architect
- Hans Moser
Hans Moser may refer to:*Hans Moser , Austrian actor*Hans Moser , German movie director*Hans Moser , Swiss Olympic rider*Hans Joachim Moser , German composer and musicologist...
(1880-1964), actor (see Auhofstraße 76–78)
- Klaus Wildbolz (1937- ), Swiss actor, lived in Unter-St.-Veit (de)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language....
(1889-1951), philosopher, lived in the autumn of 1919
Ober-St.-Veit (Ober-Sankt Veit)
- Rudolf Slatin, Slatin Pascha (1857-1932), general in the Egyptian army, Generalmajor in the Royal Army (born here)
- Franz Schmidt (1874, Bratislava - 1939), composer of the Late Romantic, rector of the Akademie für Musik
- Fritz Moravec
Fritz Moravec was an Austrian mountaineer, author and famous alpinist.-Life:He is most famous for the first ascent of Gasherbrum II, the last mountain of the Eight-thousander in the Karakoram that was unclimbed in the 1950s.-Works:Weiße Berge - schwarze Menschen, 1958; Dhaulagiri - Berg ohne...
(1922-1997), mountaineer, author
- Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century....
(1890-1918), early Vienna expressionist artist
- Karl Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS, FBA was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is considered one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy...
(1902 - 1994), philosopher
External links
Official web site (in German)