Penzing (Vienna)

Penzing (Vienna)

Infobox Vienna District
name = Penzing
number = 14th


image_district = Vienna_14.png area = 33.96
population = 78,169
population_year = 2001
density = 2,299
zip_code = A-1140
district_office_address = Hietzinger Kai 1 A-1140 Wien
website = www.wien.gv.at/penzing/
email = post@b14.magwien.gv.at
district_director = Andrea Kalchbrenner (SPÖ)
first_deputy = Robert Pschirer (SPÖ)
second_deputy = Franz Lerch (ÖVP)
representation_count = 54
representation = SPÖ 25, ÖVP 12, Greens 9,
FPÖ 8

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. A large portion of the district is made up of greenery, including the Steinhof park, the Dehnepark and a portion of the Wienerwald.

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 Kirche am Steinhof, the "Jugendstiltheater" and a memorial site for Nazi crimes in medicine
* Gerhard Hanappi Stadium: home of Rapid Vienna

External links

* [http://www.buergmann.net/penzing/ Historical information about Penzing]
* [http://www.wiener-bezirk.at/14/ Official website]
* [http://www.wetterpenzing.net Weather and webcam]


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