Penzing (Vienna)

Penzing

*Penzing* (Bavarian)
Penzing Penzing (Bavarian)
14th District of Vienna
	Coat of arms
	Location of the district within Vienna
Country	Austria
City	Vienna
Government
• District Director	Andrea Kalchbrenner (SPÖ)
• First Deputy	Robert Pschirer (SPÖ)
• Second Deputy	Franz Lerch (ÖVP)
• Representation; (54 Members)	SPÖ 23, ÖVP 10, FPÖ 9; Greens 9
Area
• Total	33.96 km2 (13.11 sq mi)
Population (2016-01-01)
• Total	91,578
• Density	2,700/km2 (7,000/sq mi)
Postal code	1140
Address of ; District Office	Hietzinger Kai 1; 1140 Wien
Website	www.wien.gv.at/penzing/

Penzing (German pronunciation: [ˈpɛntsɪŋ] ^ⓘ) is the 14th borough of Vienna and consists of the localities 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 Nervous and Mental Patients 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.
Fuhrmannhaus: oldest still existing building in the west of Vienna with a baroque fresco hall
Weststadion: Home of SK Rapid Vienna

Kirche am Steinhof
Fuhrmannhaus, ceiling fresco
Aerial view of Penzing with Otto-Wagner-Spital near the top of the photo (three rows of big buildings), square-shaped Gerhard Hanappi Stadium downwards from it, and Baumgarten between them, with its sizable Baumgartner Cemetery.

Otto Wagner (1841 – 1918), born here
Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852 – 1925), born here
Gustav Klimt (1862, Baumgarten – 1918), painter
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (1887 – 1953), born here
Siegfried Marcus, buried here
Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874-1954), born here
Lotte Lenya (1898 - 1981), born here

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