!!!Roßau

Rossau, documented mention in 1368, since 1850 part of the 9%%sup th/% 
 district of Vienna; formerly part of the Oberer Wird fishing village, 
later suburb on the Danube canal; from 1368 also called 
"Rosstrenk" (watering-place for horses), because the river 
boatmen watered their draught-horses there. Destroyed in 1529 and 
1683; rapid economic rise after the Turkish Wars. Rossau is related to 
the legend of the Donauweibchen nix. Church and monastery of the 
Servites by C. Canevale (1651-1677, towers dating from 1754-1756); 
Rossau barracks (1865-1869). Department of the Federal Ministry of the 
Interior and the Federal Police of Vienna; Rossauer Laende: station of 
the Stadtbahn transit line (designed by O. Wagner in 1900 when the 
Danube Canal line was constructed); today station of the U4 
underground railway.

!Literature
F. Czeike, Das grosse Groner Wien Lexikon, 1974; idem, 
Alsergrund, Wiener Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1979.


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