It was founded during the mid-18th century, at the beginning being just a village of German settlers, located on the outskirts of the walls of the Timișoara Fortress.

However, mostly in the 1970s, numerous new development areas with their own names (but without an administrative function) emerged on the southern edge of Iosefin.

There were no constructions here (except for the so-called "Roman entrenchment", whose actual date of execution is unknown, but which crossed present-day Iosefin).

[4] The district is characterized by continuous street fronts and buildings with low height and relatively high density.

[8] The industrial and utilitarian architecture of Iosefin, made in the 1900s style, is represented by several inedited edifices, including the former cigarette factory (built in 1846, the first of its kind on the current territory of Romania) or the water tower.