!!!Donaustadt

Donaustadt, Vienna´s 22%%sup nd/%  district, area 
102.34 km%%sup 2/%, pop. 106,589 (1991), Vienna´s largest 
district, formerly most sparsely populated district of Vienna; 
increasing urbanisation over the past decades has led to soaring 
population figures (1961: 57,268). Since 1954 Donaustadt has been made 
up of areas handed over by Floridsdorf in 1938 (Stadlau, Kagran, 
Hirschstetten, Aspern and Lobau), of the former Lower Austrian 
municipalities of Suessenbrunn, Breitenlee and Essling and of 
Kaisermuehlen (formerly part of the 2%%sup nd/%  district) with the 
Old Danube. The 22%%sup nd/%  district was formed in 1938 as the 
district of Gross-Enzersdorf and comprised 15 municipalities of the 
Marchfeld region; in 1954 its borders with the 21%%sup st/%  district 
and Lower Austria were re-defined and it was given its current name.

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The district formerly displayed a very rural character (except for 
Stadlau), the former village centres are still evident today. Some 
parts are still used for horticultural and agricultural purposes; 
suburban housing estates and large blocks of council flats (Aspern, 
Hirschstetten, Kagran and Kaisermuehlen - Goethehof, 1930; 
Marschallhof, 1959). The centre of activity in Donaustadt is Kagran. 
The more modern part of Donaustadt is the location of the Vienna 
International Centre (1979), the Austria Center (1987), the Donaupark 
with the Donauturm tower (252 m high, built 1964 on the occasion 
of the International Horticultural Show in Vienna), the 
Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum Ost hospital, the international school 
centre (1984), the Donauzentrum (1975, Vienna´s largest shopping 
centre), the OMV petroleum blending plant and Lobau tank farm, Opel 
Austria Ges. m. b. H. (on the premises of the former 
Aspern airfield), a sewage pumping station, the  Freudenau Danube 
power station the Donaustadt steam power plant and a municipal reserve 
garden. The district acquired a totally new atmosphere and image with 
the construction of a superstructure over the A 22 motorway 
(Donauuferautobahn) and the construction of office and residential 
blocks (e.g. the Andromeda-Tower and the Wohnpark Alte Donau 
residential building in 1998 and the Internationales Zentrum 
Donaustadt in 1999). Along with the swimming area on the Old Danube ( 
Gaensehaeufel), the New Danube (which covers an area of 
700 hectares including the  Donauinsel has become a popular 
recreation area for the Viennese. Since 1977 Donau-Auen nature reserve 
(Lobau), since 1996 national park.


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