!!!Hietzing

Hietzing, Vienna´s 13%%sup th/%  district, area 
37.7 km%%sup 2/%, pop. 54,909 (1991), in the south-west of 
Vienna, extends into the Vienna Woods and its isolated outliers (lime 
klippes): Trazerberg, 277 m, Roter Berg, 262 m, Kueniglberg, 
261 m, Rosenhuegel, etc. Hietzing comprises the former villages 
of Hietzing, Speising, Lainz, Ober-St.-Veit, Unter-St.-Veit, Hacking 
(all of them independent until 1892) as well as Schoenbrunn (palace 
and gardens), Friedensstadt and parts of Mauer. Hietzing also used to 
comprise Penzing, Breitensee, Baumgarten and Huetteldorf, but they 
were separated in 1938 to form the 14%%sup th/%  district ( Penzing). 
Since then the River Wien has been the northern border of Hietzing. In 
1938 (finally in 1955) the  Lainzer Tiergarten Nature Preserve became 
part of Hietzing. - First documented mention 1130. The chief landowner 
was the Teutonic Order. Hietzing was a place of pilgrimage from 1529. 
From the times of Maria Theresia on the aristocracy and the wealthy 
middle-class spent their summers there, from around 1800 they 
increasingly took up permanent residence in Hietzing. In the 
19%%sup th/%  century Hietzing turned into one of Vienna´s 
fashionable districts and became popular with the Viennese because of 
its cabarets (Dommayersches Kasino) and its proximity to  Schoenbrunn 
Palace. - Gothic parish church with Baroque alterations, known as 
pilgrimage church and favourite church of Maria Theresia (extensions 
1860-64), Baroque column dedicated to the Virgin Mary (1713) and 
monument to  Maximilian of Mexico (1871) next to it. District museum; 
Dominican convent (1885); chapel (1964/65); Ober-St.-Veit Palace 
(1742, alterations 1762-1777) and cemetery with mausoleum; St.-Hemma 
parish church (1965/66); Syrian Orthodox church (1736-1746). Hietzing 
has one of the most beautiful cemeteries, with gravestones in Empire 
and Biedermeier style. Houses typical of the former suburbs with 
Heurigen wine taverns (Ober-St.-Veit). Numerous houses and villas 
built in various styles, from Classicism to present-day architecture 
(e.g. Villa Skywa-Primavesi, by J. Hoffmann, 1913-1915), houses by A. 
Loos, J. Frank and O. Wlach, R. Oerley, R. Rainer and L. Blau. Housing 
estates with gardens: Werkbundsiedlung (A. Loos, J. Hoffmann, C. 
Holzmeister, R. Neutra, G. Rietveld, O. Strnad, etc., 1932); Siedlung 
Lockerwiese (1927-1931); Siedlung Friedensstadt (after 1918) and 
Kongress-Siedlung (1953). Kennedybruecke bridge over the River Wien 
(formerly Kaiser-Franz-Josephs-Bruecke); Maria-Theresien Kaserne 
barracks; Lainz Hospital and Geriatric Centre by the Vienna Woods; 
Rosenhuegel neurological hospital; orthopedic hospital; hospital run 
by the order of Salvatorian nuns; Vienna headquarters of the Austrian 
Broadcasting Corporation (ORF-Zentrum Wien) (1969-1973 by R. Rainer) 
on the Kueniglberg. Ekazent Hietzing shopping precinct.

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Hietzing is a residential district and as such offers only a 
relatively small number of jobs in the processing business and 
industry; numerous jobs in the finance and banking sectors, in private 
insurance and in the economic service sector. Numerous diplomatic 
missions and company headquarters are also located in Hietzing.

!Literature
F. Czeike; Hietzing, Wr. Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1982; G. 
Martin, Damals in Hietzing, 1991; F. Czeike, Historisches Lexikon 
Wien, 5 vols., 1992-1997; G. Weissenbacher, In Hietzing gebaut, 
1996.


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