14 Facts About Margareten

The former city of Margareten itself developed from an estate with the same name and was later built into a castle.

Margareten is in the southwest of Vienna and is bounded to the north by the Vienna River, in the west and south by the Gurtel belt.

Margareten is the only district within the Vienna Belt which is not within the Inner City borders.

The district area is part of the Katastralgemeinde Margareten, which has a hectare of the territory of the neighboring district Mariahilf.

Margareten has no sharp altitudes, or mountains: the total height difference is approximately 30 metres .

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In Margareten, there is no official weather station with long-term metrics.

Margareten's climate is typically of lower precipitation, little snow, many cloudy, moderately cold days in winter, sunny and hot days in summer.

Current District of Margareten included, in the time before 1850, several independent suburbs.

In 1907, Margareten reduced by the cession of the west, outside of the belt part of the former suburban Hundsturm, to the 12th District Meidling, its surface area to the present size.

Margareten was originally an artisan district, which developed in the 19th century, by the growing population, into a working-class district.

For over 100 years, the Vienna belt-Baden ran through Margareten and built to operate the station Wolfganggasse Vienna to the then district area .

In September 1969, the Vienna S-Bahn rail Matzleinsdorfer Station Square was opened, and thus Margareten was near the Vienna tram, after a second high-level network of the public transport in Vienna.

Since 2000, the green space of Margareten has been increased by planting some trees during the reconstruction of roads and parking areas.

Since the introduction of universal suffrage in Vienna in 1919, Margareten had, with the exception of the years 1934 to 1945, the only social-democratic district leader, the first Albert Hummel.