The districts of Vienna (German: Bezirke) are 23 named city sections of Vienna, Austria, which are also numbered for easy reference. For centuries, district boundaries have changed. For their creation and administration, see the Districts and Enlargement chapter of the Vienna article.
The seats of Bezirksvorsteher (district head) and Bezirksvertretung (district assembly) are located in the respective district; with the exception of the 14th district, whose political representatives are residing in the 13th district (to which much of the 14th had belonged until 1938). The Magistratisches Bezirksamt (district office of the city administration) in four locations is combining services for two districts:
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- for the 1st and 8th district in the 1st,
- for the 4th and 5th district in the 5th,
- for the 6th and 7th district in the 7th,
- for the 13th and the 14th district in the 13th.
Hence Vienna has 19 district offices.
Since 2002, in Austria, instead of the police the mayors are responsible for objects found in public places. In Vienna, the mayor has ordered the district offices to perform the functions police stations have performed until then. Since 2005, by federal law the district offices are responsible for issuing passports and registering residents, tasks until then covered in Vienna by the Federal Police.
Optimizing overhead costs has gone farther with the Federal Police of Vienna. The 23 District Police Commands in 2002 have been reduced to 14 City Police Commands. Reducing the number of small districts by mergers, as happened in Berlin after the 1990 reunification of Germany, has not even been discussed in Vienna.
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