Währing

Währing is the 18th district of Vienna and lies in northwestern on the edge of the . It was formed in 1892 from the unification of the older suburbs of Währing, Weinhaus, Gersthof, Pötzleinsdorf, and .
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  • Type: Suburb with 50,300 residents
  • Description: 18th district of Vienna
  • Also known as: “18. Wiener Gemeindebezirk” and “Gemeindebezirk Waehring”
  • Postal code: 1180
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Burgtheater and St. Stephen’s Cathedral.

Theater building
Photo: Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The (; literally: "Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as " Court Theater", originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K.

Church
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St. Stephen's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in , and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Josef Grünwidl.

Theater building
Photo: P e z i, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
The is an opera house and opera company located in , Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Innere Stadt and Alsergrund.

Photo: Thoodor, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
is the inner-most district of . Its historic centre dates back to Roman ages and has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

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is the 9th district of . is an affluent suburb that includes much of the University of Vienna, several cozy business districts, and several hospitals.

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is the 8th district of . It is bounded on the north side by Alser Straße, by the "2er Linie" on the east, Lerchenfelder Straße on the south, and the Gürtel on the west.

Währing

Latitude
48.2262° or 48° 13′ 34″ north
Longitude
16.3443° or 16° 20′ 40″ east
Population
50,300
Elevation
247 metres (810 feet)
Open location code
8FWR68GV+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240034416
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2762091
Wiki­data ID
Q690417
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Venetian—“Währing” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Վերինգ”
  • Asturian: “Währing”
  • Azerbaijani: “Verinq”
  • Bavarian: “Währing”
  • Bulgarian: “Веринг”
  • Catalan: “Währing”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeindebezirk Währing”
  • Chinese: “韦灵”
  • Czech: “Währing”
  • Danish: “Wæhring”
  • Danish: “Währing”
  • Dutch: “Waehring”
  • Dutch: “Wahring”
  • Dutch: “Währing”
  • Esperanto: “Währing”
  • Estonian: “Währing”
  • French: “Wahring”
  • French: “Währing”
  • German: “18. Bezirk”
  • German: “Währing”
  • German: “Wien 18”
  • German: “Wien-Währing”
  • Greek: “Βέρινγκ”
  • Hungarian: “Währing”
  • Indonesian: “Währing”
  • Italian: “Währing”
  • Japanese: “ウェーリング”
  • Japanese: “ヴェーリング”
  • Korean: “베링”
  • Latin: “Währing”
  • Lithuanian: “Varingas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Währing”
  • Macedonian: “Веринг”
  • Ossetian: “Веринг”
  • Polish: “Währing”
  • Portuguese: “Währing”
  • Romanian: “Wahring”
  • Romanian: “Währing”
  • Russian: “Веринг”
  • Russian: “Вэринг”
  • Serbian: “Vering”
  • Serbian: “Währing”
  • Serbian: “Веринг”
  • Slovak: “Währing”
  • Slovenian: “Währing”
  • Spanish: “Währing”
  • Swedish: “Gemeindebezirk Währing”
  • Swedish: “Währing”
  • Turkish: “Waehring”
  • Turkish: “Währing”
  • Ukrainian: “Веринг”
  • Ukrainian: “Верінг”
  • Urdu: “واہرنگ”
  • Venetian: “Währing”
  • “Währing”

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