Hietzing#

Hietzing, Vienna´s 13th district, area 37.7 km2, 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 14th 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 19th  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.

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.

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