Meidling is the 12th district of Vienna. It is located in the South-Western part of the city, south of the Wienfluss, west of the Gürtel and east and southeast of Schönbrunn palace. Traditionally, Meidling has been a working-class neighborhood. Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... The Wienfluss in the Stadtpark The Wien is a river that flows through the city of Vienna. ... The Gürtel (literally belt) is a substantial city ring road of Vienna. ... Schönbrunn can refer to Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria the municipality Schönbrunn (Baden) in the Rhein-Neckar district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany the municipality Schönbrunn (Steigerwald) in the district Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany Schönbrunn (Fichtelgebirge) , part of Wunsiedel in the district of Fichtegelberge A part of... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ...

History

Meidling, as a district of Vienna, was founded in the 1892. It consists of five former villages: Obermeidling, Untermeidling, Gaudenzdorf, Hetzendorf and Altmannsdorf. Obermeidling and Untermeidling were one village called Meidling until 1806, when they were divided. Altmannsdorf has still its rural character. This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Educational institutions and infrastructure

There are two gymnasiums in Meidling, both of them in Untermeidling: GRG 12 Rosasgasse, where Ignaz Seipel, a former Chancellor of Austria, took his Matura exams. It has got a large tesla coil. The second school is GRG 12 Erlgasse. Gymnasium can have following meanings: Gymnasium (ancient Greece)—an educational and sporting institution in Ancient Greece Gymnasium—a school of secondary education found in several European countries (approx. ... Ignaz Seipel (19 July 1876 - 2 August 1932) was an Austrian politician who served as Chancellor during the 1920s. ... The Federal Chancellor of Austria (Bundeskanzler) is the head of government in Austria. ... Matura or Matur is the word commonly used in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Switzerland for the final exams young adults (aged 18 or 19) take at the end of their secondary education. ... A Tesla coil is a category of disruptive discharge coils, named after their inventor, Nikola Tesla. ...

The Social Democratic Party of Austria runs a post-degree college for their politicians in Altmannsdorf, the Dr.-Karl-Renner-Institut. The Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs, SPÖ) is a political party in Austria. ...

Wien Meidling Station, located on the Austrian Southern Railway, is one of the largest railway stations in Vienna. It is located in Untermeidling. All trains from Vienna to Wiener Neustadt, Grazand Klagenfurt and the IC trains to Bratislava stop there. The Austrian Southern Railway (German Südbahn) was a former railway company during the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. ... Wiener Neustadt is located south of Vienna in the state of Lower Austria. ... Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec, pronounced grah-dets), with a population of 305,000 (council census 2000) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German). ... Klagenfurt (Slovenian Celovec) is the capital of the federal state of Austrian Carinthia (German Kärnten, Slovenian Avstrijska Koroška) in Austria, on the Glan River. ... Bratislava (Pozsony in Hungarian; until 1919 PreÅ¡porok in Slovak and Pressburg in German [also used in English]) is the capital of Slovakia and the countrys largest city, with a population of some 430,000. ...

Dialect

The "Meidlinger L" is a specialty of the German working-class dialect spoken in Vienna (see Viennese language). It refers to the letter "l" spoken as "dl" (as in Meidling, hence the name) in some variants of the Viennese dialect. Some believe that this feature of the dialect has its origin in the Czech language, where the 'l' sometimes sounds similar, e.g. in the past tense. The Viennese language is an East Central Austro-Bavarian dialect spoken mostly in the Austrian capital of Vienna. ... The Czech language is one of the West Slavic languages, along with Slovak, Polish, Pomeranian, and Sorbian. ...