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Vienna is composed of 23 districts (Bezirke), which although they all have their own names are numbered for the sake of convenience.
Function
Legally, they are not districts in the sense of administrative bodies with explicit powers (such as the districts in the other Austrian states, but mere subdivisions of the city administration. However, there are elections on the district level, which gives the representatives of the districts some political clout (e.g. in matters of planning, traffic etc.). Also, as a practical matter, the separate administrative buildings for each district (except for the 13th and the 14th district which share one building) decentralize the municipal administration to some degree, meaning that citizens do not have to travel great distances e.g. to get a new passport.
List of districts
1. Innere Stadt (city centre)
2. Leopoldstadt 3. Landstraße 4. Wieden 5. Margareten 6. Mariahilf 7. Neubau 8. Josefstadt 9. Alsergrund 10. Favoriten 11. Simmering 12. Meidling 13. Hietzing 14. Penzing 15. Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (see ) 16. Ottakring 17. Hernals 18. Währing 19. Döbling 20. Brigittenau 21. Floridsdorf 22. Donaustadt 23. Liesing
Postal codes
By looking at the postal code it can be determined in which district a given address is located; 1XXA - 1 denotes Vienna, XX the district number (if it is a single digit then with a leading zero), A is the number of the post office (irrelevant in this case, usually zero). Example: 1070 for Neubau. Exceptions of that are 1300 for the Vienna International Airport located in Lower Austria near Schwechat, 1400 for the UN Complex, 1450 for the Austria Center, and 1500 for the Austrian UN-Forces.
History
The numbering of the districts reflects to some degree when they were incorporated into Vienna.
- The first district is Vienna's historic center and used to be the entire city until the mid-19th century.
- Districts 2-9 (and 20 which was later separated from the second district) are known as Innenbezirke (inner districts) and composed of the former Vorstädte, which were located inside the Linienwall, the second ring of fortifications around Vienna. Those districts are located within the Gürtel today.
- The other districts are known as Außenbezirke (outer districts) and are comprised of the former Vororte.
See also
Wiener Gemeindebezirke | Arrondissements de Vienne | Distretti di Vienna | Wiener Gemengebezierker | Бечки окрузи
"Districts of Vienna"