Währing is the 18th district of Vienna and is located in the northwest of Vienna on the edge of the Vienna Woods. In 1892, the former suburbs of Währing, Weinhaus, Gersthof, Pötzleinsdorf, Neustift am Walde and Salmannsdorf were incorporated and the new district was formed from them. In 1938, however, the districts of Neustift am Walde and Salmannsdorf were largely incorporated into the district of Döbling. Today, Währing is considered a bourgeois noble district, along with Hietzing and Döbling, due to its numerous villas (e.g. Cottageviertel). Nevertheless, Währing has a considerable proportion of so-called Gründerzeit neighborhoods, especially near the Gürtel south of Gentzgasse ("Kreuzgassenviertel").