The best city hikes and walks around Wienerwald

Schloss Neuwaldegg is a baroque palace on the edge of the Vienna Woods and is one of Vienna's most important historical sites. Built at the end of the 17th century, it was later expanded by Field Marshal Franz Moritz von Lacy, who had one of Austria's first English landscape gardens laid out here. Together with the present-day Schwarzenbergpark, the palace forms an impressive ensemble of history, architecture, and nature.

The St. Anna Chapel in Dornbach is a small, historic sacred building and a quiet place for contemplation on the edge of the Wienerwald. The simple chapel blends harmoniously into its surroundings and is reminiscent of the long history of the former village of Dornbach. A tranquil place that uniquely combines cultural history and local recreation.

The distinctive wild boar sculptures at Pulverstampftor (one of the northern entrances to Lainzer Tiergarten in Vienna-Hietzing) are a popular photo motif. The two life-sized, imposing wild boar figures greet visitors directly at the gate and are a direct indication of the rich wildlife in the nature reserve there.

The administrative building was erected in 1912/13 by the Viennese city administration on the former site of the depot of the steam tram company formerly known as Krauss & Comp. and opened on January 12, 1914.[1] Initially, it only served the 13th district, as at that time parts of Vienna north of the Wien River also belonged to the 13th district. On October 15, 1938, the district boundaries were changed by the National Socialist dictatorship; since then, the 14th district, Penzing, which was newly configured at the time, has also been administered from here.

In the winter of 1872/1873, the contractor Antonio Gabrielli suggested to the municipal council that the work be completed in October 1873, instead of 1874 as contractually agreed, in return for a bonus payment. As both the sanitary situation – Vienna was again threatened by a cholera epidemic from 1872 onwards and the Kaiser-Ferdinands-Wasserleitung supplied insufficient water – and the financial situation were extremely strained, this led to difficult discussions within the water supply commission. On February 18, 1873, it submitted a motion to the municipal council to pay Gabrielli a bonus of one million guilders if the construction work was completed by October 1, 1873. This was accepted.

In 1713, Johann Carl Bartolotti Freiherr von Partenfeld, whom the Palais Bartolotti-Partenfeld in Vienna also commemorates, founded a votive chapel made of wood in place of the present-day St. Anne's Chapel. This was replaced by a stone building in 1717 and enlarged in 1773. Its tower was heightened in 1884. Due to dilapidation, the chapel was closed in 1905 and demolished in 1906, as it represented a traffic obstruction on Dornbacher Straße. In the years 1908 to 1910, St. Anne's Chapel was rebuilt according to the plans of architect Johann Steinmetz, now oriented towards the north. In front of the chapel, the "Association of Gardeners and Garden Friends in Dornbach and the Surrounding Area" had an Emperor Oak planted in 1910 on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph I, which a memorial stone commemorates.[2] St. Anne's Chapel belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Dornbach (based in the Dornbach parish church). Furthermore, the chapel is a preaching station of the Evangelical parish community A. B. Währing (based in the Lutherkirche).

Maria Theresia visited the house of God daily during her stays at Schönbrunn Palace, which, thanks to generous donations, was elevated to a parish in 1786. The church's treasury had to hand over the most valuable part to the mint as a war loan in 1793/1794 and 1809. On the way from Schönbrunn to Hietzing, there were small chapel-like niches in the boundary wall towards the Wien River with paintings depicting the Way of the Cross, for the maintenance of which Clement von Radolt had established a special foundation in 1667. When the wall was removed, the pictures were moved to the Hietzing church by order of Maria Theresia, where they have since been mounted on the side walls.

Hacking & Hütteldorf have been connected since 1878 by a wooden footbridge, which was replaced by an iron structure in 1898