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Vienna - The Innere Stadt District

Vienna - The Innere Stadt District

The Innere Stadt actually means "inside city " in other words "the town within the metropolis". The district is situated between Leopoldstadt (the North East), Landstrasse (the East), Wieden and Mariahilf (the South), Neubau and Josefstadt (the West) and Alsergrund (the North). The Innere Stadt is the oldest district of Vienna, it incorporates the historic areas and the Centre. The Wohnung entspannt verkaufen district was split into quarters - Stubenviertel (the North East), Kärntner Viertel (the South East), Widmerviertel (the South West) and Schottenviertel (the North West). Until 1850 the Innere Stadt was the equal of Vienna, and after that 12 months it began to be treated as a separate district in extending city.

Within the Innere Stadt we are going to find some of the most significant vacationer attractions of the capital of Austria. We will see the oldest churches comparable to Ruprechtskirche or the Maria am Gestade ( the oldest Gothic church in Vienna), baroque Peterskirche, the archbishop's seat (Stephansdom) and the last open pre-war synagogue (Stadttempel from 1825, which was not destroyed throughout so called "Crystal Night"). Besides sacred buildings there are additionally different monuments like the prestige Court docket Theatre (Burgtheater - created in 1741 in the course of the reign of Maria Theresa, partly rebuilt after the war) or the Albertina - a gallery from 1768 which has one of many largest assortment of the graphic artist. Other than these places in the Innere Stadt we may even discover the biggest Viennese museum - the Naturhistorisches Museum, or the Imperial Palace Hofburg. There may be Graben Street which has a form of a protracted square. It is somewhat necessary a part of the town where we are able to see the baroque Morow Column - Pestsäule. Leopold I put it in a burial place as a particular thanks for rescuing him from plague in 1679. The original column put by Leopold I had been made of wooden, and later Matthias Rauchmiller designed a marble one. There is also Vienna State Opera (Staatsoper) which began its activity with Mozart's opera "Don Giovanniego"in 1869.

Truly speaking - if we see the Innere Stadt we will say now we have seen nearly complete old Vienna.

The expansion of the city and war caused that lately the number of inhabitants of the oldest district of Vienna decreased very quickly. In 1869 over sixty eight thousand people lived within the Innere Stadt, and eleven years later the population of the district grew to about seventy eight thousand inhabitants. But in 2005 solely 17 thousand individuals lived there. Over half of them are Roman Catholics, different are the confessors of Orthodox Church, Protestantism and Judaism. About 20 per cent of occupants of the Innere Stadt don't belong to any religious group. Besides Austrians there are additionally Serbians, Germans, Hungarians and Croatians.

The first, after war, president of the district, only for several months, was Theodor Köpl. Presently, since 2005, Ursula Stenzel is the president of the Innere Stadt. Now within the representation of the Innere Stadt there are 18 councillors from Austrian Populist Party (Österreichische Volkspartei), 13 from Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs), 7 from Green (Die Grünen - Die Grüne Various) and councillors from Austrian Liberation Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs).