!!!Floridsdorf

Floridsdorf, 21%%sup st/%  district of the City of Vienna, area 44.46 
km%%sup 2/%, pop. 119,415 (1991), situated on the left bank of the 
Danube in the western Marchfeld area. Floridsdorf was incorporated 
into the City of Vienna in 1904, including the villages of Jedlesee, 
Grossjedlersdorf, Donaufeld, Leopoldau, Kagran, Hirschstetten, Stadlau 
and Aspern; in 1910 Strebersdorf was added. In 1938 Floridsdorf lost 
Kagran, Stadlau, Hirschstetten, Aspern and the Lobau to the newly 
formed 22%%sup nd/%  district ( Donaustadt); in 1954 the borders to 
the 22%%sup nd/%  district and Lower Austria were redrawn and 
Stammersdorf was added to Floridsdorf. - The area was first known as 
"Am Spitz" and was then renamed after the Abbot Floridus Leeb of 
Klosterneuburg, who gave monastery grounds to settlers in 1786. 
Floridsdorf was originally primarily agricultural but quickly 
developed industrially thanks to the Nordwestbahn railway line and the 
steam tramway line opened in 1885 and received its city charter in 
1894.

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Suburban settlement with allotment gardens and farming: 
Grossfeldsiedlung (1966-1973); Nordrandsiedlung; Siedlung Jedlesee 
(after 1949); new residential area of Neu-Stammersdorf between 
Bruenner Strasse and Jedlersdorfer Strasse (76 hectares, begun in 
1992). Council housing estates: (Schlingerhof, 1925/1926; 
Karl-Seitz-Hof, 1926/1927; Paul-Speiser-Hof, 1931/1932). School centre 
(1966), Nittel-Hof (1976-83); University of Veterinary Medicine 
(1995-1996); Siegfried-Marcus vocational school (1989); Pedagogical 
Academy of the Archdiocese of Vienna (1971); training centre for 
social services professions (1978); Haus der Begegnung centre (1968; 
formerly the Floridsdorf Workers' Centre, 1909); Shopping-City-Nord 
(1989); Van-Swieten-Kaserne barracks (Military Hospital). District 
museum in the former Mautner-Schloessl manor (since 1960); 
Paul-Hock-Park (formerly the Floridsdorf Cemetery). Church of the 
School Brothers Strebersdorf (1887), Donaufeld church (1905); 
Floridsdorf church (1936-1938).

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Numerous industries as well as small and medium-sized businesses. 
-Schnellbahn suburban service. U6 underground line. Western portion of 
the Alte Donau recreation area (water park, Angelibad),  Marchfeld 
Canal.

!Literature
F. Czeike, Floridsdorf, Wr. Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1979; 
idem, Historisches Lexikon Wien, 5 vols., 1992-1997; H. Hinkel 
and K. Landsmann, Florisdorf von A-Z, 1997.


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