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Alsergrund Alsergrund, the 9th district of Vienna, is situated north of the city centre (Innere Stadt) and plays host to its grandest centres of learning, the University of Vienna and the Wirtschaftsuniversitt Wien, earning it the ... Brigittenau The 20th district of Vienna, Brigittenau is situated north-east of the centre (Innere Stadt) on the banks of the Danube. Its name is derived from the 17th century chapel dedicated to St Brigitta built in 1650. Colossal c... Döbling The 19th district of Vienna is located north of the centre (Innere Stadt) on the outskirts of the greater metropolitan area. One of Vienna's largest districts, Döbling's quaint old villages, lush forests, large swat... Donaustadt The 22nd district, Donaustadt, is Viennas biggest and has a steadily growing population. One of two districts known as Transdanubien (across the Danube), due to its position on the east bank of the river, it was once pre... Favoriten Favoriten, Viennas 10th district, is one of the citys largest and has the highest population of any Viennese Bezirk (district). Large numbers of Turks and Yugoslavs live on densely packed housing estates around Favoriten... Floridsdorf Viennas 21st district, Floridsdorf is one of two districts known by the Viennese as Transdanubien (across the Danube) because of its location on the east bank of the river. This, the second largest district in Vienna, of... Hernals Hernals is Viennas 17th district and lies in the north-western corner of the city between Ottakring and Whring. In the second half of the 19th century the quaint village of Hernals industrialised rapidly, sprouting numer... Hietzing Viennas 13th and western-most district, Hietzing, was the chicest part of the city and famous for its nightlife back in the 1800s. It is a pleasant and still fashionable leafy suburb of Vienna with splendid villas and ga... Innere Stadt Innere Stadt (City Centre), known as 1st district, is the historic heart of Vienna and home to its greatest attractions the Habsburgs Hofburg palace, the Spanish Riding School, the Vienna State Opera and the Stefansdom (... Josefstadt Josefstadt, Viennas 8th district and the smallest, was named after Emperor Joseph II. Today it is a popular residential area of Vienna preserving many of its pre-world war one Biedermeier and Historismus town houses as w... Landstrasse Landstrae, Viennas 3rd district, contains the citys so-called diplomatic quarter, which retains a rich vein of Viennese imperial charm with its churches, monuments, upmarket hotels, fancy restaurants and palaces, includi... Leopoldstadt Leopoldstadt, the citys 2nd district, is separated from the city centre by the Danube Canal and by the River Danube to the north, forming an island with the neighbouring Brigittenau district. Named after the Habsburg Emp... Liesing Located in the south-western corner of Vienna, the 23rd district, Liesing, is also one of the largest. Amongst the modern residential areas and industrial parks you can still stumble upon quaint old-time villages. Since ... Margareten Margareten, Viennas 5th district is a residential area through and through. Originally the western strip of the Wieden district, Margareten was made a district in 1861 and forged into a tough working-class borough during... Mariahilf Mariahilf, Viennas 6th district, runs along one side of one of Vienna's busiest and most vibrant shopping streets, the Mariahilferstrae and possesses a number of outdoor markets in the northern part of the district. Head... Meidling Meidling, the 12th district of Vienna, is located south-west of the city-centre and was once an imperial hunting ground and a source of sulphur for the Romans. There is still a thermal bath in Meidling, however, like oth... Neubau Neubau, the 7th district of Vienna, like neighbouring Mariahilf flanks the busy shopping street, Mariahilferstrae, which boasts a wide array of chic boutiques, shopping centres and art galleries, many of them in the char... Ottakring The 16th district of Vienna, Ottakring, occupies a slim strip lying north-west of the city centre (Innere Stadt). Once a byword for grand old town houses, today housing conditions are quite poor as many apartments still ... Penzing This, the 14th district of Vienna, occupies a long slip of the north-western corner of the city. Penzing village is extremely old and was first mentioned in writing in 1120 as a stop on the road to Linz. The eastern part... Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus Viennas 15th district, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus is a small well-populated inner-city area just west of the centre (Innere Stadt). It is a typical residential area with its fair share of greenery and more foreign residen... Simmering Simmering, also known as 11th district, is a medium-sized industrial quarter in the south-east of Vienna whose population has risen substantially in the last 15 years since the construction of large modern housing estate... Währing Währing, Viennas 18th district, lies north-west of the city centre (Innere Stadt) sandwiched between Döbling, Hernals and Alsergrund. In the 19th century new factories sprouted up among the numerous villas, att... Wieden
Wieden, Viennas 4th district, lying south of the city centre (Innere Stadt), is one of its most desirable residential neighbourhoods with its grand town houses, elegant restaurants and fashionable boutiques. For centurie... 
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