!!!Ottakring

Ottakring, 16%%sup th/%  district of Vienna, area 
8.64 km%%sup 2/%, pop. 88,931; settlements probably since the 
9%%sup th/%  century, first documented mention in 1147/67, formerly 
very industrialised, with garden areas in the western part leading up 
to the Vienna Woods (Liebhartstal valley, Starchant, Spiegelgrund, 
Gallitzinberg hill, Wilhelminenberg hill). In the course of its 
incorporation into Vienna in 1890/92, the Viennese district of 
Ottakring was created from the villages of Alt-Ottakring, 
Neu-Ottakring and Neulerchenfeld, all of which expanded enormously to 
the south and west in the second half of the 19%%sup th/%  century, 
when workers´ tenement houses mushroomed. The straight 
Thaliastrasse street above the completely vaulted Ottakringerbach 
stream, the main watercourse of this district, stems from that era of 
construction.

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Located in the southern part of this area are an adult education 
centre and the Radetzky barracks, a former tobacco factory and 
numerous other industrial enterprises; in Alt-Ottakring, where 
numerous new buildings (multi-storey houses, terminal of the U 3 
underground line, "Kunstmeile" cultural area, HTL secondary school, 
residential buildings) were erected in the course of an urban renewal 
programme, there are the  Ottakringer Brauerei AG brewery, in the 
north the Kongressbad (public baths) next to a park and the council 
houses in Sandleiten (from 1924); on the hills in the west next to 
what has remained of the formerly wide-spread vineyards (formerly a 
popular location for wine taverns): Wilhelminenspital hospital, 
formerly a lupus sanatorium, Ottakringer Friedhof (cemetery), 
Ottakringer swimming pool, the Kuffner observatory,  Wilhelminenberg 
Palace (1927-1977 almost continuously used as a children´s home, 
converted into hotel between 1986-1988), biological station, research 
facility for wildlife studies of the Veterinary School of the 
University of Vienna, forest education trail and incinerating plant. 
Former Czech Volksschule primary school and Hauptschule secondary 
school, which recall the time when Ottakring was home to a large Czech 
minority (together with the 10%%sup th/%  district the largest 
minority in Vienna) during the decades of industrial construction.

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Ottakring had many traditional and new industries and enterprises; the 
Ottakringer Brauerei, the Fuernkranz clothing factory and the 
foodstuffs group (J.  Meinl still have their original sites in 
Ottakring. A number of international groups, such as the 
pharmaceutical companies Gerot and Kwizda have also located to this 
district.

!Literature
F. Czeike, Ottakring, Wiener Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1981; 
W. W. Weiss, Die Kuffner-Sternwarte, Wiener Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 
1984; F. Czeike and W. Lugsch, Studien zur Geschichte von Ottakring 
und Hernals (1840-1910), 1955; F. Czeike, Historisches Lexikon Wien, 
5 vols., 1992-1997.


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