NEIGHBOURHOOD WALKING TOUR - 13TH DISTRICT HIETZING

Part of Eugen´´'s poject is to show that every street is interesting, if you meet the locals and hear the stories. We will be exploring this rich, green, fancy part of Wien West.

So what makes Hietzing special? It has hills - which are so important for views and light, but also forests, a zoo, ORF, beautiful villas, fine cafes, lively village-style life, and of course Schönbrunn (the most-visited tourist site in Austria). What can we value from the Habsburgs, in terms of their legacy for Vienna? We will look at Kaiser Franz-Josef's own railway station (used only twice, since he was not so keen on travelling by train), why FM4 recently moved here to Küniglberg, how the district votes (not always as you would expect), and who lives in Vienna's third largest district. It is the least densely-populated Bezirk, the oldest (by age of residents), and the most female. Part of the reason the population is so old is because of how few migrants live here. This is also the most Catholic part of our city.

Hietzing is one of the key playgrounds of Wiener Modern, and we will explore some of their experiments and elegance. We visit the graveyard where Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, Kolo Moser and fascist Dollfuss are buried. We look at Klimt's Villa, but Hietzing is also the home district of Andre Heller, one of the restless characters of contemporary Vienna, active on so many fronts, from art to music, history to literature, politics to performance.

The old high street in Hietzing is romantic and atmospheric. Few bombs fell here, because there was so little industry or railways/bridges. This was part of the British occupation of Vienna. How many of you know that singer Marianne Faithfull is the daughter of a British Army spy and a Viennese woman he met here and took back to Hampstead in London?

Join us for a beautiful summer journey in the leafy west.

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