Simmering is the 11th district of Vienna, the capital of Austria. It is the part of town travellers arriving at Schwechat Airport invariably have to cross on their way to the city. Simmering's most striking feature is probably the largest cemetery in Vienna, the Zentralfriedhof, opened in 1874, with lots of Ehrengräber (Brahms, Beethoven, Schönberg, Schubert and "the waltz king" Johann Strauß are interred there).
In 2001 Simmering got a new landmark called Gasometer. It is four former gas-holders that had been built inside the communal gasworks in 1896-1899 and that were revitalized and converted in 1999-2001 after they had been decommissioned in 1984. They were converted from gas-tanks to new buildings filled with apartments, a student residence, offices and a shopping mall.
Simmering remained small until 1860, when the Rinnböckhäuser housing development was built, which at the time was the second-largest in Vienna, and resulted in rapid growth in the area.
Simmering was a stronghold for social democrats as early as the start of the 20th century.
The rise of Nazism in Vienna was hardly acknowledged in the vote of Simmering, as the party took only 7.2% of the vote in 1932, the worst outcome in the whole city.
Never ask a person from Vienna about the name of the district he or she lives in, because it is very probable that they will not know the answer.
Leopoldstadt, the city's 2nd district, is separated from the centre of Vienna by the Danube Canal, and, along with the 20th district Brigittenau, forms a misshapen island bordered to the east by the main arm of the Danube.
Vienna's 3rd district lies to the east and south-east of the Innere Stadt, framed to the east by the Danube Canal (Donaukanal) and to the west by Prinz-Eugen-Strasse, and Arsenalstrasse.
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