Sights
- Schönbrunn Castle: These are the imperial apartments. In an adjoining building, there is the Wagenburg of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, which contains a collection of over 100 wagons, carriages, litters and sedan chairs, with its train and Reit-geschirren which have been used by the imperial court. The connected, not publicly available, uniform depot dates back to the livery-coat of Colonel squire Office and is one of the world's finest collections of court dress from the 19th and early 20 Century. In the park are the Palm House, the Gloriette and the oldest existing zoo in the world, the Tiergarten Vienna Zoo.
In the old Towncenter of Hietzing:
- Hietzinger Parish Church
- District Museum of Hietzing (near the church)
- Café Dommayer
- Hietzinger Cemetery (graves of Franz Grillparzer, Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Engelbert Dollfuß, Rudolf Prack, Heinz Conrads)
- Various single- or multi-family homes which are interesting for reasons of architecture or history (in that kind of a house lives Sophie - one of the main characters in Elfriede Jelinek's book Die Ausgesperrten - English title: Wonderful, wonderful times)
- Hackinger Steg, a pedestrian bridge over the River Wien
- Kennedybrücke (Kennedy Bridge)
- ORF-Zentrum
- Various churches
- Schönbrunn Palace
- Palmenhaus Schönbrunn
- Hietzinger Cemetery - Famous people buried include Gustav Klimt and Engelbert Dollfuss
- Tiergarten Schönbrunn
- Lainzer Tiergarten
- Residences
- Wildsau, a traditional restaurant located at the edge of the Lainzer Tiergarten with a good view over Vienna
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