Penzing is the 14th district of Vienna. It is composed of the parts Penzing, Breitensee, Baumgarten, Hütteldorf and Hadersdorf-Weidlingau. It borders to the west and northwest on the Lower Austrian municipalities of Purkersdorf, Mauerbach and Klosterneuburg, and on Vienna city territory on the municipal districts (clockwise from the northeast) of Hernals, Ottakring, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus and Hietzing. The most famous buildings in the district are the church at Steinhof, the Otto Wagner Villa I (with the Ernst Fuchs Museum) and the Vienna Technical Museum.
Culture and sights
Fuchs-Villa (Otto-Wagner-Villa I) in Hüttelbergstraße 26: today villa and former studio of the painter Ernst Fuchs
Villa Wagner II at Hüttelbergstraße 28, built in 1912/13
Church at Steinhof: one of the most important Art Nouveau buildings in Vienna, built according to the plans of Otto Wagner on the hilltop of Baumgartner Höhe, extensively renovated until 2006; part of the following large complex:
Otto-Wagner-Spital Social Medical Center (Am Steinhof), built in 1904-1907 according to Otto Wagner's plans as the "Lower Austrian Provincial Lunatic Asylum"
Villa Vojcsik: an art nouveau building by Otto Schönthal
Laudon Palace: baroque moated palace in Hadersdorf
Palais Cumberland, palace of the last King of Hanover, who was exiled to Vienna in 1866
Fuhrmannhaus: oldest preserved building in the west of Vienna, features baroque fresco hall
Sargfabrik, alternative housing project and cultural center
Dehnepark: nature park of about 50,000 m², formerly owned by film actor and director Willi Forst, part of the Vienna Woods
Oberbaumgartner Parish Church: built in 1963-1965 according to the plans of Johann Georg Gsteu
Breitensee pumping station at Hütteldorfer Strasse 142, first pumping station in the Vienna water supply network, put into operation in 1896
Residential building at Rosentalgasse 19 by Ernst Plischke (1931)
Museums:
Technisches Museum Wien: The Technisches Museum displays exhibits and models from the history of technology, with special emphasis on Austria's contribution to technical development.
Ernst Fuchs Museum in the Otto Wagner Villa I (see above), world's largest collection of works by Ernst Fuchs
Steinhof Memorial: commemoration of the euthanasia crimes committed by the National Socialists in Vienna
District Museum Penzing in the old office building in Penzinger Straße, corner Nisselgasse; history of the old places, workshop of the last blacksmith in the district, grocery store and shopping street with displays, brick museum
A popular shopping center is the Auhof Center, located in the west of the district.
