!!!Simmering

Simmering, 11%%sup th/%  district of Vienna, area 
23.24 km%%sup 2/%, pop. 66,881 (1991), in the southeastern part 
of Vienna, on a terrace of the River Danube, on the main road to 
Hungary (ancient Roman road); documented as Simanningen in 1028. The 
Simmeringer Heide comprises low-lying sections between the Danube 
Canal and the lower Schwechat river (vegetable gardening, allotment 
settlements with rural character). When Simmering was incorporated 
into the municipality of Vienna in 1890/92, Kaiserebersdorf and parts 
of Albern were also incorporated; in 1955 the village of Albern and 
the Danube harbour (from 1938 part of the 23%%sup rd/% district, 
Schwechat; between 1954 and 1955 temporarily part of the 2%%sup nd/%  
district, Leopoldstadt) became part of Simmering. Between 1803 and 
1879 the  Wiener Neustadt Canal ran through Simmering; Eastern 
railway; thermal power station (1965).

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Industrialisation started in the late 19%%sup th/%  century: erection 
of municipal public utilities on the Simmeringer Heide: central 
workshop of the Wiener Verkehrsbetriebe (Vienna Public Transport), 
Entsorgungsbetriebe Simmering (main sewage treatment plant of Vienna 
and treatment of hazardous wastes), Vienna gas and electricity 
companies; 1992, inauguration of the new block-power station 
No. 3; since 1988, new business premises of the electricity 
generating station); former gasometers of Simmering (now industrial 
monument); construction of new residential and business area with 800 
homes and business and communication centre since 1999; central 
workshops of the Austrian Federal Railways (OeBB);  SGP 
Verkehrstechnik GmbH, Steyr-Bus Ges. m. b. H., 
Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug AG, Steyr Maschinenbau 
Ges. m. b. H., Dietzel Ges. m. b. H. 
Kunststoff- und Metallwarenfabrik,  TEERAG-ASDAG AG.- Vienna  Central 
Cemetery (1874, area 2.5 km%%sup 2/%), crematorium (built by C. 
Holzmeister between 1921 and 1923 on the grounds of the former 
imperial hunting lodge ("Neugebaeude") dating from 1569); 
Protestant church (1962-1963 by R. Rainer). - Housing developments: 
e.g. Friedrich-Engels-Hof (1925), Karl-Hoeger-Hof (1925), 
Weissenboeckstrasse settlement (1923, 1928), Leberberg city 
development area offering more than 3000 new homes,( since 1994). - 
Kledering central shunting station, Albern harbour with freight 
station.

!Literature
F. Czeike, Simmering, Wiener Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1980; 
H. Havelka, Simmering, 1983; idem, Der Zentralfriedhof, %%sup 2/%1985; 
F. Czeike, Historisches Lexikon Wien, 5 vols., 1992-1997.


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