!!!Brigittenau

Brigittenau, since 1900 the 20%%sup th/%  district of Vienna, area 
5.67 km%%sup 2/%, pop. 71,876 (1991); from 1850 to 1900 part of the 
2%%sup nd/%  district; various parts of the district used to be named 
"Schottenau", "Wolfsau", "Taborau" and "Zwischenbruecken", today¢ 
s name derives from the Brigitta chapel (built from 1645 to 1651 after 
the Swedes had been fended off during the Thirty-Years' War); a 
settlement called Zwischenbruecken was situated around the chapel. 
Before the River Danube was regulated (1869-75) the area was for the 
most part a wetland area with a pheasantry; Emperor Joseph II 
made the area accessible to the public under the name of  Augarten; 
rapidly settled from the south after 1840; then an industrial area, it 
is now mainly a residential area. Until 1847 the Brigitta fair, 
described in the novella "Der arme Spielmann" by F.  Grillparzer, 
enjoyed great popularity. Brigitta church (1867-1873) by F. v. 
Schmidt; Divine Redeemer church (1982/83). Large council housing 
estates: Winarsky-Hof (1924) and Otto-Haas-Hof (1925), Janecek-Hof 
(1925-1926), Beer-Hof (1926), Friedrich Engels-Hof (1930-1933), 
municipal housing estates mainly from the 1960s and the 1970s on 
either side of Adalbert-Stifter-Strasse street, residential building 
Dresdner Strasse (1980), housing projects: Hartlgasse (1989) etc. The 
Millenniums-Tower (height 202 m, built in 1999) is the highest 
building in Austria. Technological Grammar School (1980), general 
accident insurance headquarters (1972-1977), Lorenz-Boehler accident 
hospital, adult education centre, district museum, traffic facilities; 
goods railway station, formerly the Northwestern Railway station, 
goods railway station, Nordbruecke Danube Bridge, Floridsdorf bridge, 
Northern Railway bridge, Brigittenau bridge, U6 underground railway 
line built in 1996.

!Literature
F. Czeike, Brigittenau, Wr. Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1981; 
idem, Historisches Lexikon Wien, 5 vols., 1992-1997.


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