Vienna City Guide

City Profile Vienna, Austria’s federal capital and biggest city, is the most densely populated province of Austria with a population of 1.75 million people and approximately 4,230 residents per square kilometer. It is Austria’s political, economic, and cultural centre. The city of Vienna is divided into 23 municipal districts (the so-called “Bezirke”). 1. Innere Stadt 13. Hietzing 2. Leopoldstadt 14. Penzing 3. Landstraße 15. Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus 4. Wieden 16. Ottakring 5. Margareten 17. Hernals 6. Mariahilf 18. Währing 7. Neubau 19. Döbling 8. Josefstadt 20. Brigittenau 9. Alsergrund 21. Floridsdorf 10. Favoriten 22. Donaustadt 11. Simmering 23. Liesing 12. Meidling The second and third digits of the four-digit postal code reveal in which district the given address is located, e.g. 1010 Wien with the second and third digits 0 and 1 denoting the first district, 1190 Wien with the second and third digits 1 and 9 denoting the 19 th district. Vienna’s telephone area code is 01. The first district (“Innere Stadt”) within the so-called Ringstraße around the inner city is Vienna’s heart and historical city centre. Vienna has numerous museums, galleries, theatres, cinemas, historical buildings and a multitude of other attractions. In terms of cultural entertainment, the imperial palaces Hofburg and Schönbrunn, the Opera (“Wiener Staatsoper”), and the traditional Spanish Riding School (“Spanische Hofreitschule”) with its Lipizzaner horses are not to be missed. Vienna also offers a wide range of different cafés, bars and clubs. There are also leisure activities for the whole family like the zoo (“Tiergarten Schönbrunn”), the amusement park “Prater” with its famous Ferris wheel (“Riesenrad”) and other municipal parks. Many international organizations, such as the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the UN (United Nations) and the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe), maintain their or one of their headquarters in Vienna. In 2001, Vienna’s historic city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The consulting company Mercer’s 2012 quality of living survey ranks Vienna as number one worldwide for overall quality of living – for the fourth time in a row.

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Vienna City Guide