!!!Meidling

Meidling, 12%%sup th/%  district of Vienna, area 
8.21 km%%sup 2/%, pop. 79,592 (1991); since 1890/92 formed of the 
municipalities of Lower Meidling, Upper Meidling,  Gaudenzdorf, 
Wilhelmsdorf,  Hetzendorf and  Altmannsdorf. Zentralberufsschule 
(Central Vocational School); Meidling Cemetery and South-West 
Cemetery; rehabilitation centre, Federal Office for the Control of 
Virus Epidemics (Bundesamt fuer Virusseuchenbekaempfung), hospital for 
industrial accidents, hostel for homeless people; home for abandoned 
animals; Office for Military Equipment and rural police command unit 
(Heeres-Materialamt and Landesgendarmeriekommando) for Lower Austria 
(former Heckenast-Burian Barracks); "Am Schoepfwerk" large-scale 
housing estate (1975, V. Hufnagel and team of architects), numerous 
council houses.

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In Meidling (first mention around 1140 as "Murlingen" in the 
possession of Klosterneuburg Abbey) the  Thermenlinie reaches the area 
of Vienna: sulphur springs had already been discovered in Roman times 
(Pfannsches Mineralbad, mineral bath, and Theresienbad, public bath). 
Former imperial hunting seat (1705), was later turned into an imperial 
factory for woollen fabrics, then theatre (until 1874, demolished 
1884-1902; today Theresienbad). Hetzendorf Palace with Modeschule der 
Stadt Wien (Vienna School of Fashion); former Tivoli amusement park, 
Wien-Meidling railway station (Schnellbahn suburban service, Badner 
Bahn train, U6 underground, tram), Haydnpark (abandoned cemetery with 
Haydn gravestone); museum of local history and culture; several modern 
churches (Gatterhoelzl, Maria Lourdes, Namen Jesu and Neu-Margareten). 
- Much industry (telephones, cables and wires, agricultural machines, 
chocolate, textiles, furniture, shoes, etc.).

!Literature
W. Mayer, Meidling, Wiener Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1989; 
idem, Meidling - fuenf Doerfer - ein Bezirk, 1992.


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