!!!Döbling

Doebling, 19%%sup th/%  district of Vienna, area 
24.90 km%%sup 2/%, pop. 67,377 (1991), mentioned around 1114 as 
Tobilic (Toeblich), until 1891 two separate municipalities 
(Ober-Doebling and Unter-Doebling, separated by the Krottenbach 
stream), unified with Sievering, Grinzing, Heiligenstadt, Nussdorf, 
Kahlenbergerdorf and Josefsdorf to form the 19%%sup th/%  district of 
Vienna in 1892; Salmannsdorf and Neustift, previously part of the 
18%%sup th/%  district, were added in 1938. Doebling reaches from the 
River Danube and the upper section of the Danube Canal over the hills 
of Nussberg, Krapfenwaldl, Cobenzl and Himmel (Bellevue) to the 
margins of the Vienna Woods, which extend from the Dreimarkstein hill 
over the Hermannskogel and Kahlenberg hills and end in the steep 
slopes of the Leopoldsberg hill at the River Danube.

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Typical of Doebling are the old villages (winegrowing and Heurigen 
villages along the streams in the Vienna Woods) with large winegrowing 
estates (the most extensive winegrowing region of Vienna) and woods, 
and the exclusive residential area of the "Cottageviertel". In the 
course of the 19%%sup th/%  century, Doebling came to be a fashionable 
summer holiday resort, and several poets, composers and writers lived 
there. More than any other Viennese district, Doebling has preserved 
its original character; but some important topographic features have 
been added in the 20%%sup th/%  century: the Hoehenstrasse scenic 
road, the television tower on Kahlenberg hill, the rowing facilities 
at Kuchelau, the Hohe Warte football stadium, etc. Doebling also has 
several hospitals and sanatoria, parks and gardens (for example 
Setagaya-Park Japanese garden), open-air swimming pools and old 
cemeteries. The S 45 suburban transit line crosses Doebling, the 
Franz-Josefs-Bahn railway line, the U6 and U4 (terminal at 
Heiligenstadt) underground lines run along its outer borders. 
Passenger ships on the River Danube dock at Nussdorf.

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Important buildings: several churches ( in Grinzing, Heiligenstadt, 
Neustift, on the Kahlenberg and the Leopoldsberg hills, etc.), only 
extant charnel house in Vienna (adjacent to St. Michael´s 
church at Heiligenstadt); Kleiner Zwettlerhof (1731); former 
University of World Trade (now institutes of the Faculty of 
Archaeology, University of Vienna), Schikaneder-Lehár lodge 
(1737); Maria-Theresia lodge, now the City of Vienna hospital of 
neurology; 5 Beethoven flats (memorial sites), including the 
Eroica house (L. van Beethoven lived there 1803/04 and worked on the 
"Eroica"); Beethoven-Grillparzer house (built at the end of the 
18%%sup th/%  century; L. van Beethoven and the then 17-year old 
Austrian dramatist F. Grillparzer lived there at the same time in 
1808); Villa Hainisch (music school of the City of Vienna) 
Wertheimstein Villa (1834-1836, with frescoes by M. von Schwind; 
district museum and museum of viticulture), 5 villas by J. Hoffmann; 
Nussdorf weir (barrier in the Danube Canal by O. Wagner, 1894-1898); 
Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics at Hohe Warte; 
International Press Centre (built in 1970), Pressehaus (Press 
Building, 1963); large council house estates (Karl-Marx-Hof, 
1926-1930; Klosehof, 1924; Pestalozzihof, 1925; Rebechof, 1929; 
Schnitzlerhof, 1960); remains of late Roman buildings near 
St. Jakob's church at Heiligenstadt.

!Literature
F. Czeike, Historisches Lexikon Wien, 5 vols., 
1992-1997; H. Kretschmer, Doebling, Wiener Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1982.


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