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About Vienna

Population

1,731,236 in city
0 in metro

Size

416 km² (161 mi²)

Altitude

170 m

The history of Vienna dates back over 2000 years when a roman army camp named "VINDOBONA" was founded next to the Danube River. The Roman era ended when Germanic tribes took over the area in the 400s. After the Habsburg family won the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in 1273, they made Vienna their capital and it developed into a city of importance. Following the defeat of Turkish invasions in 1529 and 1683, Vienna blossomed with its new-found security into one of the great capitals of Europe and a center of Baroque architecture. Vienna recovered from WWII in the 50s and 60s, but without the construction of many tall buildings. The United Nations complex of the mid-1970s was one of the few major high-rise developments before the 1992 decision of the city council to create a new high-rise district on the left bank of the Danube, the Donaucity. Along with the fall of the Iron Curtain, this initiated a boom in modern and tall architecture which thus far has no end in sight...

Zones

Donaucity Vienna (17), Eurogate (1), In der Wiesen (5), Kabelwerk (14), Monte Laa (12), Museumsquartier (5), Mustersiedlung Hadersdorf (10), Town Town (2), Wienerberg City (24)

Boroughs

Alsergrund (9. Bezirk) (11), Brigittenau (20. Bezirk) (7), Donaustadt (22. Bezirk) (47), Döbling (19. Bezirk) (7), Favoriten (10. Bezirk) (37), Floridsdorf (21. Bezirk) (6), Hernals (17. Bezirk) (1), Hietzing (13. Bezirk) (3), Innere Stadt (1. Bezirk) (53), Landstraße (3. Bezirk) (36), Leopoldstadt (2. Bezirk) (36), Liesing (23. Bezirk) (33), Margareten (5. Bezirk) (4), Mariahilf (6. Bezirk) (5), Meidling (12. Bezirk) (29), Neubau (7. Bezirk) (8), Ottakring (16. Bezirk) (6), Penzing (14. Bezirk) (22), Rudolfsheim-Fünfstadt (15. Bezirk) (4), Simmering (11. Bezirk) (11), Wieden (4. Bezirk) (7),

Metro Cities

Klosterneuburg, Mödling, Schwechat, Vienna

No. of Buildings

No.	Current status
544	All Buildings
492	existing
29	under construction
5	planned
8	unbuilt
10	demolished

Tallest Buildings

#	Building	Height	Year
1	DC Tower 1	820 ft	2013
2	Millennium Tower	663 ft	1999
3	Hochhaus Neue Donau	492 ft	2001
4	Vienna Twin Towers	453 ft	2001
5	IZD Tower	427 ft	2001

Building types

No.	Type
269	low-rise building
153	high-rise building
32	church
24	skyscraper
9	bridge
7	subterranean building
6	monument
6	multi-story building
5	chimney
4	mast (framework)
3	mast (wired)
3	flak tower
3	telecommunications tower
3	ferris wheel
2	palace
2	fountain
2	stadium
2	amusement ride
2	building with towers
2	observation tower
2	water tower
1	open-air structure
1	outside stairs
1	lighthouse

Other buildings

No.	Type
18	Famous buildings
71	Buildings with construction images