!!!Penzing

Penzing, 14%%sup th/%  district of Vienna, area 
33.31 km%%sup 2/%, pop. 80,822 (1991) ancient village, first 
documented mention around 1120, situated on the left bank of the River 
Wien, along the road to Linz. During the 18%%sup th/%  century it was 
a summer resort and the first location of the Vienna silk industry. 
Between 1890 and 1892 Penzing was integrated into Vienna as part of 
the 13%%sup th/%  district; Penzing and all other parts situated north 
of the River Wien (Breitensee, Baumgarten including Steinhof, 
Huetteldorf) were separated from the 13%%sup th/%  district and united 
with the villages Mariabrunn, Weidlingau, Hadersdorf and Hainbach (all 
situated in the northern part of Vienna Woods) to form the district of 
Penzing, the 14%%sup th/%  district of Vienna in 1938.

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The Western Railway line (Huetteldorf railway station) cuts across 
this district; its eastern part, with suburban character is mainly 
residential, with houses in Biedermeier style. Penzing also includes 
the industrial area of Auhof, some factories (electrical appliances, 
furniture, playing cards etc., laundry and dye works), Hanappi-Stadion 
stadium, freight station, allotment gardens, forestry technology 
enterprise of the Oesterreichische Bundesforste AG (Austrian Federal 
Forests); Vienna Museum of Technology, Cumberland Palace (including 
the Reinhardt Seminar), federal advanced-level school of printing and 
graphic arts (Hoehere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt), 
Breitensee barracks, Hanusch Hospital, "Am Steinhof" 
psychiatric hospital (with a domed church by O. Wagner, one of the 
most significant Jugendstil buildings), Baumgartner Hoehe 
pulmonological sanatorium, two villas by Otto Wagner (one houses the 
Ernst Fuchs museum), council housing estates (Hugo-Breitner-Hof). 
Penzing stretches in the north-west far into the Vienna Woods along 
the Halterbach and Mauerbach streams; in this part of Penzing are the 
Schottenhof restaurant and Knoedlhuette lodge, the University of 
Agricultural Sciences' experimental gardens, Laudon Palace (now 
Federal Academy of Public Administration) and Field Marshal Laudon's 
grave, Mariabrunn parish church with former monastery (today Federal 
Forest Research Centre), Sofienalpe hill, open-air swimming pools and 
camping site. Hills: Wolfersberg (alt. 322 m), Satzberg (alt. 
435 m), Franz Karl Fernsicht (alt. 486 m, panoramic view), 
Schutzengelberg (alt. 508 m).

!Literature
H. Watzinger, Die sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und 
besitzgeschichtlichen Wandlungen des Dorfes Penzing bis zu Beginn des 
19. Jahrhunderts, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1949; F. Czeike, 
Penzing, Wiener Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1974; H. Wohlrab, Penzing, 1985; 
F. Czeike, Historisches Lexikon Wien, 5 vols., 1992-1997.


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