Inner East
Vienna's Inner East is an artificial island formed between the river and the Donaukanal. The island contains large expanses of parks and forests, including the famous Prater park with the permanent funfair including the Riesenrad Ferris wheel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 110,000 residents
- Description: 2nd municipal District of Vienna, Austria
- Also known as: “Leopoldstadt”
- Neighbors: Alsergrund, Innere Stadt, and Landstraße
Places of Interest
Highlights include Giant Ferris Wheel and Urania.
Giant Ferris Wheel
Ferris wheel
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The Wiener Riesenrad, or simply Riesenrad, is a 64.75-metre tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna.
Urania
Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY 2.5.
Urania is a public educational institute and observatory in Vienna, Austria. Urania Observatory was built in 1909 according to the plans of Art Nouveau style architect Max Fabiani at the outlet of the Wien River and was opened in 1910 by Franz Joseph I of Austria as an educational facility with a public observatory.
Hundertwasserhaus
Photo: Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, completed in 1985, after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Innere Stadt and Landstraße.
Innere Stadt
Photo: Thoodor, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
Innere Stadt is the inner-most district of Vienna. Its historic centre dates back to Roman ages and has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Landstraße
Photo: Miguel Mendez, CC BY 2.0.
Landstraße is the third district of Vienna, the largest of the inner districts. While most tourists arriving by air end up at Landstraße on their train from the airport, many head immediately towards the ring and Innere Stadt.
Alsergrund
Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alsergrund is the 9th district of Vienna. Alsergrund is an affluent suburb that includes much of the University of Vienna, several cozy business districts, and several hospitals.
Inner East
- Category: district of Vienna
- Location: Vienna, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Inner East” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليوبولدشتات”
- Armenian: “Լեոպոլդշտադտ”
- Azerbaijani: “Leopoldştadt”
- Bavarian: “Leopoidstod”
- Bulgarian: “Леополдщат”
- Catalan: “Leopoldstadt”
- Cebuano: “Gemeindebezirk Leopoldstadt”
- Chinese: “利奥波德城”
- Czech: “Leopoldstadt”
- Danish: “Leopoldstadt”
- Dutch: “Leopoldstadt”
- Esperanto: “Leopoldstadt”
- Estonian: “Leopoldstadt”
- Finnish: “Leopoldstadt”
- French: “Leopoldstadt”
- Georgian: “ლეოპოლდისქალაქი”
- Georgian: “ლეოპოლდშტადტი”
- German: “Die Leopoldstadt”
- German: “Leopoldstadt”
- Greek: “Λέοπολντστατ”
- Hebrew: “הרבעים הפנימיים המזרחיים”
- Hebrew: “לאופולדשטאדט”
- Hungarian: “Leopoldstadt”
- Indonesian: “Leopoldstadt”
- Italian: “Leopoldstadt”
- Japanese: “レオポルトシュタット”
- Korean: “레오폴트슈타트”
- Latin: “Leopoldstadt”
- Latvian: “Leopoldstadt”
- Lithuanian: “Leopoldstadtas”
- Luxembourgish: “Leopoldstadt”
- Macedonian: “Леополдштат”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leopoldstadt”
- Norwegian: “Leopoldstadt”
- Polish: “Leopoldstadt”
- Portuguese: “Leopoldstadt”
- Romanian: “Leopoldstadt”
- Russian: “Леопольдштадт”
- Serbian: “Леополдштат”
- Slovak: “Leopoldstadt”
- Slovenian: “Leopoldstadt”
- Spanish: “Leopoldstadt”
- Swedish: “Leopoldstadt”
- Turkish: “Leopoldstadt”
- Ukrainian: “Леопольдштадт”
- Venetian: “Leopoldstadt”
- Western Armenian: “Լէօբօլտշթաթ”
- “Leopoldstadt”
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