!!!Währing

Waehring, Vienna´s 18%%sup th/%  district, area 
6.31 km%%sup 2/%, pop. 49,761, formerly independent municipality, 
located along the Waehringer Bach stream, merged in 1890/92 with 
Weinhaus (first documented mention 1266),  Gersthof,  Poetzleinsdorf,  
Neustift am Walde and part of Salmannsdorf (the latter two came to  
Doebling in 1938) to form the 18%%sup th/%  district; first documented 
mention before 1177 as property of Michaelbeuern monastery. The old 
centre of the village was located around what are today Waehringer 
Strasse and Gentzgasse streets. Largely destroyed by Matthias Corvinus 
in 1485 and by the Turks in 1529 and 1683. In the 19%%sup th/%  
century Waehring was a popular summer resort, in the Vormaerz period 
(before the 1848 revolution) large numbers of craftsmen and industrial 
workers moved there; at the same time, numerous villas were built ( 
Cottage). Waehring has large green spaces:  Tuerkenschanz Park, 
Schubert Park (opened in 1925, 1769-1873 local cemetery) with the 
tombs of L. van  Beethoven and F.  Schubert; Waehringer Park 
(opened in 1923; 1783-1874 general cemetery); Schafbergbad open-air 
swimming baths (covering an area of 45,000 m%%sup 2/%) at the 
border to the 17%%sup th/%  district. - University of Agricultural 
Sciences; 2 Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium secondary schools, 
Albertus Magnus school (private secondary school) and 
Oberstufen-Realgymnasium secondary school of the Marist School 
Brothers. - Ignaz Semmelweis gynaecological hospital of the City of 
Vienna; Gersthof orthopaedic hospital of the City of Vienna, Haus der 
Barmherzigkeit care centre and hospice. - Waehring parish church 
(first documented mention 1226 as chapel, parish around 1400, rebuilt 
in 1753, 1934 extensions by K. Holey) with high altar painting by 
Peter Strudel; fountain (1884) in front of the church; neo-Gothic 
parish church (Lazarist church, consecrated in 1878) and Weinhaus 
parish church (1883-1889/93), both built to designs by F. von 
Schmidt; museum of local history and culture (founded in 1937).

!Literature
F. Opll, Erstnennung von Siedlungsnamen im Wiener Raum, 
1981; K. Lohrmann and F. Opll, Regesten zur Fruehgeschichte von Wien, 
1981; H. Kretschmer, Waehring, Wiener Bezirkskulturfuehrer, 1982.


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