Vienna is composed of 23 districts (Bezirke), which although they all have their own names are numbered for the sake of convenience. Image File history File links Wien_districts_with_numbers. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ...

Function

Legally, they are not districts in the sense of administrative bodies with explicit powers (such as the districts in the other Austrian states, but mere subdivisions of the city administration. However, there are elections on the district level, which gives the representatives of the districts some political clout (e.g. in matters of planning, traffic etc.). Also, as a practical matter, the separate administrative buildings for each district (except for the 13th and the 14th district which share one building) decentralize the municipal administration to some degree, meaning that citizens do not have to travel great distances e.g. to get a new passport. Districts are a form of local government in several countries. ... The title page of European Union passports bears the name European Union, then the name of the issuing country, in the official languages of all EU countries. ...

List of districts

1. Innere Stadt (city centre) The Innere Stadt is the the first Viennese Municipality District. ...

2. Leopoldstadt
The Volksprater amusement park in the Wiener Prater The Hauptallee in the Prater Leopoldstadt (Leopold-Town) is Viennas second district. ...

3. Landstraße
The Volksprater amusement park in the Wiener Prater The Hauptallee in the Prater Leopoldstadt (Leopold-Town) is Viennas second district. ... Landstraße (literally country road in German) is the third district of Vienna. ...

4. Wieden
Landstraße (literally country road) is the 3rd District of Vienna. ... Wieden is the fourth district of Vienna. ...

5. Margareten
Wieden is the fourth district of Vienna. ... Margareten is the fifth district of Vienna. ...

6. Mariahilf
Margareten is the fifth district of Vienna. ... Mariahilf is the sixth district of Vienna, with a population of 27,867 (2001) within an area of 1. ...

7. Neubau
Mariahilf is the sixth district of Vienna, with a population of 27,867 (2001) within an area of 1. ... Neubau is the seventh district of Vienna, with a population of 28,292 people (2001) within an area of 1,61 km². It consists of the former Vorstädte of Neubau, Altlerchenfeld, St. ...

8. Josefstadt
Neubau is the seventh district of Vienna, with a population of 28,292 people (2001) within an area of 1,61 km². It consists of the former Vorstädte of Neubau, Altlerchenfeld, St. ... Josefstadt is the eighth district of Vienna, with a population of 22,057 people (2001). ...

9. Alsergrund
Josefstadt is the eighth district of Vienna, with a population of 22,057 people (2001). ... Alsergrund is the ninth district of Vienna, Austria, located just north of the first, central district Innere Stadt. ...

10. Favoriten
Alsergrund is the ninth district of Vienna, Austria, located just north of the first, central district Innere Stadt. ... The Amtshaus (Magistratisches Bezirksamt), Favoritens administrative centre, was built in 1881-82 and is one of the few red brick buildings to be found in Vienna today. ...

11. Simmering
The Amtshaus (Magistratisches Bezirksamt), Favoritens administrative centre, was built in 1881-82 and is one of the few red brick buildings to be found in Vienna today. ... Simmering is 11th district of Vienna, Austria. ...

12. Meidling
Simmering is a cooking technique in which foods are cooked in hot liquids kept at or just barely below the boiling point of water (at average sea level air pressure), 100 °C (212 °F). ... Meidling is the 12th district of Vienna. ...

13. Hietzing
Meidling is the 12th district of Vienna. ... Hietzing is the 13th municipal District of Vienna. ...

14. Penzing
Hietzing is the 13th municipal District of Vienna. ... Penzing is the 14th District of Vienna and consists of the boroughs of Penzing, Breitensee, Baumgarten, Hütteldorf and Hadersdorf-Weidlingau. ...

15. Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (see [1])
Penzing is the 14th District of Vienna and consists of the boroughs of Penzing, Breitensee, Baumgarten, Hütteldorf and Hadersdorf-Weidlingau. ... Baumgarten was an independent town until the late 19th century and is an area of Viennas fourteenth district, Penzing, today. ... Hütteldorf is a part of Viennas 14th district. ... Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus is the 15th district of Vienna. ...

16. Ottakring
Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus is the 15th district of Vienna. ... Ottakring is the 16th district in Vienna. ...

17. Hernals
Ottakring is the 16th district in Vienna. ... Hernals is the 17th district of Vienna. ...

18. Währing
Hernals is the 17th district of Vienna. ... Währing is the 18th district (Bezirk) of Vienna, Austria. ...

19. Döbling
Währing is the 18th district (Bezirk) of Vienna, Austria. ... Döbling is the 19th district in the city of Vienna, Austria. ...

20. Brigittenau
Döbling is the 19th district in the city of Vienna, Austria. ... Heiligenstadt is a part of the Vienna district Döbling. ... Kahlenbergerdorf in Vienna Kahlenbergerdorf is part of the XIX. District of Vienna, Döbling, since 1891, when it was incorporated into the city. ... Brigittenau is the 20th district of Vienna. ...

21. Floridsdorf
Brigittenau is the 20th district of Vienna. ... Floridsdorf is the 21st district in the city of Vienna, Austria. ...

22. Donaustadt
Floridsdorf is the 21st district in the city of Vienna, Austria. ... Donaustadt is the 22nd district of Vienna. ...

23. Liesing
Donaustadt is the 22nd district of Vienna. ... Aspern is a village in Austria, on the Danube, 4 miles north-east of Vienna. ... This article is about a floodplain in Vienna. ... Liesing is the 23rd district of Vienna. ...

Liesing is the 23rd district of Vienna. ...

Postal codes

By looking at the postal code it can be determined in which district a given address is located; 1XXA - 1 denotes Vienna, XX the district number (if it is a single digit then with a leading zero), A is the number of the post office (irrelevant in this case, usually zero). Example: 1070 for Neubau. Exceptions of that are 1300 for the Vienna International Airport located in Lower Austria near Schwechat, 1400 for the UN Complex, 1450 for the Austria Center, and 1500 for the Austrian UN-Forces. Vienna International Airport (IATA: VIE, ICAO: LOWW) (German: Flughafen Wien), located 18 kilometers (11 miles) southeast of Vienna, is the busiest airport in Austria. ... Schwechat is a city on the south-eastern outskirts of the Austrian capital Vienna. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established 14 September 1945 and now made up of 191 member states, which includes virtually all internationally recognized independent countries. ...

History

The numbering of the districts reflects to some degree when they were incorporated into Vienna.

• The first district is Vienna's historic center and used to be the entire city until the mid-19th century.
• Districts 2-9 (and 20 which was later separated from the second district) are known as Innenbezirke (inner districts) and composed of the former Vorstädte, which were located inside the Linienwall, the second ring of fortifications around Vienna. Those districts are located within the Gürtel today.
• The other districts are known as Außenbezirke (outer districts) and are comprised of the former Vororte.

Vorstadt is a German term that could be considered roughly considered equivalent to a suburb, i. ... The Währinger Gürtel quite close to Viennas General Hospital, Allgemeines Krankenhaus. ... Vorort is a German term that could be considered roughly considered equivalent to a suburb. ...

Also see

• History of Vienna

Vienna has a long and varied history, which began when the Roman Empire created a military camp in the area that is known today as Vienna. ...