Districts of Vienna - District Locations

District Locations

The following are locations of the 23 districts:

1. Innere Stadt (city centre, many functions, few residents)
2. Leopoldstadt (on the island between Danube and Danube Canal, with Praterstern, Vienna's most frequented traffic spot, and Giant Wheel)
3. Landstraße (on the right bank of the Danube Canal, Belvedere Palace)
4. Wieden (very small district south of the city centre)
5. Margareten (separated from Wieden in 1861)
6. Mariahilf (small district on main shopping lane leading to Westbahnhof)
7. Neubau (small district on main shopping lane leading to Westbahnhof, with MuseumsQuartier, large cultural complex)
8. Josefstadt (small district very close to City Hall, Parliament and University)
9. Alsergrund (General Hospital district)
10. Favoriten (in the south of Vienna, largest district in population, building site of new main train station)
11. Simmering (on the right bank of the Danube Canal, Central Cemetery)
12. Meidling (on the southern bank of the Wien river)
13. Hietzing (on the southern bank of the Wien river, Schönbrunn Palace)
14. Penzing (on the northern bank of the Wien river, separated from Hietzing in 1938, Otto Wagner's Church Am Steinhof)
15. Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (on the northern bank of the Wien river; until 1938, 14th and 15th district, Westbahnhof)
16. Ottakring (on the western outskirts, Vienna's traditional brewery)
17. Hernals (on the northwestern outskirts)
18. Währing (on the northwestern outskirts, Central Institute of Meteorology)
19. Döbling (on the northern outskirts, the classical ‘Heurigen’ district)
20. Brigittenau (separated from Leopoldstadt in 1900)
21. Floridsdorf (on the left bank of the Danube, industry areas, northernmost part of Vienna)
22. Donaustadt (on the left bank of the Danube, largest district in size, UN City, largest convention hall)
23. Liesing (southernmost district, industry areas)

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 Vienna, and 1500 for the Austrian UN-Forces.

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

• The first district comprises Vienna's historic centre and used to be the entire city until 1850.
• Districts 2–9 (and 20 which was in 1900 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 the former Vororte.