Hundsturm was an independent municipality (Gemeinde) of Austria until 1850 and is today a suburb of Vienna the city's 5th District, Margareten.

The Hundsturm coat of arms shows, on a blue background, a castle tower on a green meadow.

It is more likely, however, that the name goes back to the former mill, which was occupied in 1408 as the first time in the disk Hunczmühle Ried.

During the 17th Century, the settlement grew around the castle, especially along the present Schönbrunnerstraße between Spengergasse and Margaretengürtel.

The cemetery has since been transformed into a park named after composer Joseph Haydn, whose remains had been originally buried there in 1809.