Penzing (Vienna)

Penzing
14th District of Vienna
Coat of arms
Location of the district within Vienna
Country	Austria
City	Vienna
Government
• District Director	Andrea Kalchbrenner (SPÖ)
• First Deputy	Robert Pschirer (SPÖ)
• Second Deputy	Franz Lerch (ÖVP)
• Representation    (54 Members)	SPÖ 23, ÖVP 10, FPÖ 9 Greens 9
Area
• Total	33.96 km2 (13.11 sq mi)
Population (2014-01-01)
• Total	87,597
• Density	2,600/km2 (6,700/sq mi)
Postal code	1140
Address of District Office	Hietzinger Kai 1 1140 Wien
Website	www.wien.gv.at/penzing/

Penzing (German pronunciation: [ˈpɛnʦɪŋ]) is the 14th District of Vienna and consists of the boroughs of Penzing, Breitensee, Baumgarten, Hütteldorf and Hadersdorf-Weidlingau. In the west, it shares a border with Purkersdorf and Mauerbach. A large portion of the district is made up of greenery, including the Steinhof park, the Dehnepark and a portion of the Wienerwald.

Sights

Kirche am Steinhof

• Fuchs Mansion: Mansion and studio of the painter Ernst Fuchs
• Otto-Wagner-Hospital: Hospital building erected from 1904 to 1907 as Niederösterreichische Landes-Heil- und Pflegeanstalt für Nerven- und Geisteskranke 'Am Steinhof' ("Lower Austrian State Healing and Care Institution for Nervous and Mental Patients Am Steinhof"). The famous Jugendstil architect Otto Wagner participated in the planning. The complex includes the Kirche am Steinhof, the Jugendstiltheater and a memorial site for Nazi crimes in medicine.
• Gerhard Hanappi Stadium: home of Rapid Vienna

Aerial view of Penzing with Otto-Wagner-Spital near the top of the photo (three rows of big buildings), square-shaped Gerhard Hanappi Stadium downwards from it, and Baumgarten between them, with its sizable Baumgartner Cemetery.

People

See also: Category:People from Penzing (Vienna)

• Otto Wagner (1841 – 1918), born here
• Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852 – 1925), born here
• Gustav Klimt (1862, Baumgarten – 1918), painter
• Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (1887 – 1953), born here
• Siegfried Marcus, buried here

External links

• Penzing on Vienna's official website
• Weather and webcam