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Thedistricts of Vienna (German:Wiener Gemeindebezirke) are the 23 named city sections ofVienna,Austria, which are numbered for easy reference.[1] They were created from 1850 onwards, when the city area was enlarged by the inclusion of surrounding communities. Although they fill a similar role, Vienna's municipal districts are notadministrative districts (Bezirke) as defined by the federal constitution; Vienna is astatutory city and as such is a single administrative district in its entirety.
| No. | District | Coat of arms | Area (km2) | Population (2023) | Density per km2 | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Innere Stadt |  | 2.869 | 16,620 | 5,791 | .svg) |
| 2 | Leopoldstadt |  | 19.242 | 108,269 | 5,627 | .svg) |
| 3 | Landstraße |  | 7.403 | 96,756 | 13,075 | .svg) |
| 4 | Wieden |  | 1.776 | 33,633 | 18,895 | .svg) |
| 5 | Margareten |  | 2.012 | 55,018 | 27,372 | .svg) |
| 6 | Mariahilf |  | 1.455 | 31,423 | 21,523 | .svg) |
| 7 | Neubau |  | 1.608 | 31,581 | 19,616 | .svg) |
| 8 | Josefstadt |  | 1.09 | 24,674 | 22,637 | .svg) |
| 9 | Alsergrund |  | 2.976 | 42,206 | 14,211 | .svg) |
| 10 | Favoriten |  | 31.823 | 218,415 | 6,862 | .svg) |
| 11 | Simmering |  | 23.256 | 109,038 | 4,688 | .svg) |
| 12 | Meidling |  | 8.103 | 100,281 | 12,380 | .svg) |
| 13 | Hietzing |  | 37.713 | 55,568 | 1,473 | .svg) |
| 14 | Penzing |  | 33.76 | 96,828 | 2,868 | .svg) |
| 15 | Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus |  | 3.918 | 76,109 | 19,416 | .svg) |
| 16 | Ottakring |  | 8.673 | 102,444 | 11,816 | .svg) |
| 17 | Hernals |  | 11.396 | 56,033 | 4,919 | .svg) |
| 18 | Währing |  | 6.347 | 51,559 | 8,120 | .svg) |
| 19 | Döbling |  | 24.944 | 75,517 | 3,028 | .svg) |
| 20 | Brigittenau |  | 5.71 | 85,690 | 15,007 | .svg) |
| 21 | Floridsdorf |  | 44.443 | 183,895 | 4,138 | .svg) |
| 22 | Donaustadt |  | 102.299 | 212,658 | 2,079 | .svg) |
| 23 | Liesing |  | 32.061 | 117,882 | 3,677 | .svg) |
The boundaries of each district have been shown as a layer on thismap. The following are locations of the 23 districts:
By looking at the postal code it can be determined in which district a given address is located. Austrian postal codes are 4 digits, where the first usually indicates the federal state. For Vienna, postal codes are formatted 1XXA where 1 denotes Vienna, XX the district number (if it is a single digit then with a leading zero), and A is the number of the post office (irrelevant in this case, usually zero). For example, addresses in the seventh district of Neubau have the postal code 1070. Postcodes which do not follow this district-postcode correlation are 1300 for theVienna International Airport located in Lower Austria nearSchwechat, 1400 for theUN Complex, 1450 for theAustria Center Vienna, and 1500 for the Austrian UN-Forces.
The numbering of the districts reflects to some degree when they were incorporated into Vienna.
The seats ofBezirksvorsteher (political district head) andBezirksvertretung (district assembly)[2] are located in the respective districts, with the exception of the 14th district, whose political representatives reside in the 13th district (to which much of the 14th had belonged until 1938). TheMagistratisches Bezirksamt (district office of the city administration, not headed by the political district head) in four locations combines services for two districts:
Hence Vienna has 19 district offices.
Since 2002, in Austria, instead of the police the mayors are responsible for objects found in public places. In Vienna, the mayor has ordered the district offices to perform the functions police stations have performed concerning found objects until then. Since 2005, by federal law the districts in all of Austria are responsible for issuing passports and registering residents, tasks until then covered in Vienna by the Federal Police. The mayor of Vienna again has ordered the district offices of theMagistrat to perform these functions.
Optimizing overhead costs has gone farther with the Federal Police in Vienna. The 23 District Police Commands in 2002 have been reduced to 14 City Police Commands. Reducing the number of small districts by mergers, as happened inBerlin after the 1990reunification of Germany, has not even been discussed in Vienna, since the district assemblies function as breeding factories for the political parties' representatives.
For the creation and administration of the districts, seeVienna § Districts and enlargement.
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