Reinprechtsdorf was a village in the Middle Ages, abandoned earlier, but the name remained as a path waypoint.

Nearby, a hunting lodge was built, wherefrom the suburb Hundsturm ("Hounds tower") gets its name.

Since then, the formerly rural district has become a thickly populated urban area with many workers and eventually large residential homes.

Thus, the district boundary follows the streets: Kettenbrückengasse, Margaretenstraße, Kleine Neugasse, Mittersteig, Ziegelofengasse, Blechturmgasse until the Gürtel belt.

In 1562, the Imperial Court finally got its own first water supply by the Siebenbrunner Hofwasserleitung, which was commissioned and built by Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I.

Due to origin from the Flyschzone, they are made of clay or sandstone plates and therefore, have little relevance to the groundwater in the city.

In 1874, Margareten lost the entire section at the south part of the Vienna Belt (e.g., Protestant Cemetery Matzleinsdorf) to the 10th District Favoriten.

The area southwest of the district could not be built until 1870, when the seven sources since 1562 served as the Vienna's water supply Hofwasserleitung.

In 1877, the oldest Volksbildungsverein of Vienna (today: VHS polycollege) was founded, and in 1909 to 1911 the house in the Stöbergasse 11-15 was included.

Following the establishment of the Vienna tram, at the end of the 19th century, the line was canceled and the Wall Gürtel belt created.

In the 19th century, Vienna General Omnibus AG began, a bus line operated with horses after Matzleinsdorf.

The free area in Margareten - along the "belt Drasche" - offered the ability to reach large communal dwellings.

During the Austrian Civil War in 1934, the workers' district offered resistance against the Austro-fascist corporate state.

On 10 April 1945 the Soviet army arrived in Margareten and installed in the Upper Amtshausgasse 3-5 (former employment), the Russian commander.

Using the British-supplied excavators, Schlürf-maschinen and trucks, as well as through the use of more than 37,000 people who contributed over 300,000 hours of work, the clean-up could be taken forward quickly, so that Margareten was the first district of Vienna, on 19 September 1946, to be cleared and could begin to rebuild.

As in other districts of Vienna, the populace cleared space for car traffic and offered valuable buildings.

[9] Since 2000, the green space of Margareten has been increased by planting some trees during the reconstruction of roads and parking areas.

The Institute for High Energy Physics deals with research into the smallest building blocks of matter and the forces acting between them (interactions).

To this end, the institute works together with the European Research Center for Particle Physics CERN in Geneva.

Although it was only after World War I when the large apartment buildings were built along the Vienna belt, the population declined continuously until the 2001 census, due to the increased housing needs.

Proportionately, behind the people with a Roman Catholic denomination, 11.9% followed Islamic and 9.6% with Eastern Orthodox religion.

It was not until the year 1906, the breaking of the Christian-led front in Margareten, when Franz Domes was elected to represent the Socialist Workers Party (SDAP).

Since the introduction of universal suffrage in Vienna in 1919, Margareten had, with the exception of the years 1934 to 1945, the only social-democratic district leader, the first Albert Hummel.

In 1987, the electoral mandates were distributed as follows: 22 SPÖ, 12 ÖVP, 4 Freedom Party (FPÖ) and 2 GAL (green).

Kurt Henry was re-elected as district leader, Heinrich Koch's deputy, took the place of Martina Pucher (ÖVP), Dietmar Brandl (FPÖ).

Thus Margareten sat in a development that has already been observed in other areas within the Vienna belt - the Greens to contest the district director of the SPÖ.

The church is not only a baroque gem near the office building, Franz Schubert was consecrated here before he was buried in the Währing cemetery.

The Filmcasino at Margaretenstraße 78 in Vienna's 5th district Margareten was founded in 1911 and was known for a long time as the Margaretner Bürgerkino before it reopened in 1989.The one-room cinema has 254 seats and is characterized by the well-preserved interior in the style of the 1950s As a program and art house cinema, the Filmcasino mainly shows films from European productions, but also from Asia and Latin America as well as US independent film.

The original Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum (GeWiMu) existed from January 1925 until it was suppressed by the Austrofascists in February 1934.

The coat of arms of the district is a six-part seal and represents the six former, independent suburbs merged: Margareten, Nikolsdorf, Matzleinsdorf, Hundsturm, Reinprechtsdorf and Laurenzergrund.