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Penzing

14th District of Vienna
Name: Penzing
Area size: 34.00 km²
Population: 78,169 (as of 2001)
District director Andrea Kalchbrenner (SPÖ)
1. First deputy Robert Pschirer (SPÖ)
2. Second deputy Oliver Drahosch (FPÖ)

Penzing 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.

Sights

  • 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 the Neurally and Mentally Sick Am Steinhof"). The famous Jugendstil Architect Otto Wagner participated in the planning. The complex includes the Church of St. Leopold, the Jugendstiltheater and a memorial site for Nazi crimes in medicine
  • Gerhard Hanappi Stadium : home of Rapid Vienna

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