!!!Mauer bei Wien

Mauer bei Wien, alt. 242 m, long-established exclusive residential 
area; part of Vienna particularly favoured by wine-growers; became 
part of Vienna in 1938; after the great upheavals caused by the war, 
it was finally integrated into the 23%%sup rd/%  district in 1954; 
situated on the southern edges of the Vienna Woods. Mauer bei Wien 
(where a fair has been held there since the early 18%%sup th/%  
century) is one of numerous wine-growing villages situated along the 
railway line connecting Vienna with the south of Austria. On 
Antonshoehe Hill a hornstone mine dating from the Neolithic period has 
been found; Roman settlements; medieval hunting lodge owned by the 
Babenberg Dynasty. Late Gothic parish church, enlarged by C. 
Holzmeister between 1934 and 1936, stained glass windows and mosaics 
by A. P. Guetersloh.

!Literature
F. Opll, Liesing, Wiener Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1981; idem, 
Liesing, 1982; R. Spitzer, Liesing, 1994.


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