!!!Laa, Wiener Bezirksteil

Laa, Oberlaa and Unterlaa, two former municipalities. The uninhabited 
parts of Laa became part of the 10%%sup th/%  district of Vienna in 
1873, the inhabited parts followed in 1938 (definitively in 1954). Laa 
used to be called Laach (Middle High German "la" = marsh). - There is 
a Baroque parish church in Oberlaa (1746). Exploitation of a hot 
sulphur spring since 1965, construction of a health resort (opened in 
1974) which includes a park that was created in the course of the 
Vienna International Gardening Fair in1974.

!Literature
H. Tschulik, Favoriten, Wiener Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1985.


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