Hietzing is the 13th district of Vienna. Traditionally, it is divided into six district parts, corresponding to former villages: Hietzing (also Alt-Hietzing) in the northeast, Unter-St.-Veit in the north, Ober-St.-Veit in the northwest, Hacking in the west, Lainz (geographical center) and Speising in the south. Until 1938, other former villages belonged to it: see Penzing, now 14th district. There was also the political district of Hietzing-Umgebung, which included large parts of the western Wienerwald (to Kirchstetten) and parts of the south close to the city (Kaltenleutgeben to Vösendorf).

The district also includes parts of the Vienna Woods and the large palace park of Schönbrunn, which adjoins Hietzing to the city (east). The summer residence of the Habsburgs led to the settlement of many aristocrats and high officials until 1900, which is why Alt-Hietzing, Lainz, Unter St. Veit and Ober St. Veit are still considered genteel residential areas today. In the south, new settlements such as the settlement Auhofer Trennstück and Friedensstadt were built in the years after World War I on formerly forested land.

Culture and sights

    Schönbrunn Palace: Here you walk through the imperial chambers. In an adjoining building is the Wagenburg (branch of the Kunsthistorisches Museum), a collection of more than 100 carriages, sleighs, sedan chairs and carrying chairs with associated harnesses for pulling and riding, which were used by the imperial court. The adjoining Wardrobe Depot, which is not open to the public, dates back to the livery wardrobe of the Oberststallmeisteramt and is one of the world's most important collections of courtly dress from the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the palace park, the Palm House, the Gloriette and the oldest existing zoo in the world, the Schönbrunn Zoo, are worth seeing.

In the old center of Hietzing:

    Maria Hietzing Parish Church
    Hietzing District Museum (right next to the church)
    Hietzing Cemetery (with the graves of Franz Grillparzer, Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Engelbert Dollfuß, Rudolf Prack, Heinz Conrads)
    Café Dommayer

Throughout the district:

    Various single-family and multi-family houses special for architectural and/or historical reasons (v. a. "Hietzinger Villenviertel", see also Adolf Loos, Josef Plecnik, Josef Frank)
    Klimt Villa
    Otto Wagner: subway stations Schönbrunn, Ober-St.-Veit
    Otto Wagner: Stadtbahn-Hofpavillon Hietzing: The court waiting room of the Vienna Stadtbahn served the emperor and his guests as an embarkation and disembarkation point for the railroad.