!!!Josefstadt

Josefstadt, 8%%sup th/%  district of Vienna, area 
1.08 km%%sup 2/%, in area the smallest and in population the 
second-smallest (pop. 23,850: 1.5 % of the total population in 
1991) district of Vienna (after the 1%%sup st/%  district). Named 
in honour of Emperor  Joseph I (coronation 1690). In the course 
of urban development the inner suburbs of Breitenfeld, Strozzigrund, 
Josefstadt, and parts of St. Ulrich, Lerchenfeld and 
Alservorstadt were incorporated into Vienna´s 7%%sup th/%  
district (re-numbered as 8%%sup th/%  district in 1861). Settlement 
began around 1700, favoured by the nobility for summer residences; 
today a typical residential district with a large number of patrician 
houses built before 1919, some of them from the Biedermeier and 
historicism periods. Baroque suburban residences (one of the finest is 
"Zur heiligen Dreifaltigkeit"/Alte Backstube, 1697).

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Palaces: Strozzi Palace (from 1698/1699 and during the 18%%sup th/% 
 century numerous renovations, today tax office building), 
Auersperg Palace, Schoenborn Palace(1706-1711 by J. L. von 
Hildebrandt, 1725 enlarged, today Austrian Museum of Folk Life and 
Folk Art (Oesterreichisches Museum fuer Volkskunde), Damian Palace 
(1700, central part enlarged and renovated in 1774 by M. Gerl, today 
headquarters of the Austrian War Victims´ Association for 
Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland). Weissspanierkirche church 
(Trinitarian church, 1694-1727, since 1784 Franciscan); 
Piaristenkirche (church of the Piarist Order, built 1716, probably 
according to plans drawn up by J. L. von Hildebrandt, master 
builder Franz Jaenggl, altarpieces by F. A. Maulbertsch, K. Rahl 
and others; frescoes, early major works done in Vienna by F. A. 
Maulbertsch, main dome 1752); Piaristenkloster (monastery built 
between 1698 and the mid-18%%sup th/%  century); Federal Office 
of Weights, Measures, and Surveying up to 1983), formerly Military 
Geographic Institute (1840-1842, upper floors added 1870-1871); 
District Courts I (enlarged 1839 and 1906) and II (1908);  
Theater in der Josefstadt; Handelsakademie (commercial secondary 
school, opened 1908); Bakers´ Guild building (built 1766, 
acquired 1893); Haus der Wiener Jugend (Vienna Youth House); 
administration building of the Vienna Gasworks (1909-1910); Melkerhof 
(large housing complex built during the early Age of Promotorism or 
"Gruenderzeit"). - Residential area interspersed with office 
buildings, doctors´ and lawyers´ offices, restaurants and 
bars; small number of industrial firms and businesses.

!Literature
A. Bauer, G. Kropatschek et al., 200 Jahre Theater in der 
Josefstadt 1788-1988, 1988; F. Czeike, Josefstadt, Wr. 
Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1980; C. Klusacek and K. Stimmer, Josefstadt: 
Beisln, Buehnen, Beamte, 1991; F. Czeike, Historisches Lexikon Wien, 
5 vols., 1992-1997.


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