Oberdöbling
Oberdöbling (Central Bavarian: Obadöbling) was an independent municipality until 1892 and is today a part of Döbling, the 19th district of Vienna.
Location: 48°14′28″N 16°21′18″E / 48.24111°N 16.35500°E / 48.24111; 16.35500 Oberdöbling lies in the south of the Döbling district of Vienna and covers an area of 241.20 hectares.
A settlement named Hart used to stand on the site of modern-day Oberdöbling, but it was abandoned in the 14th century.
In the 12th century, the nobles derer von Topolic owned Döbling, later it was the property of the Dominican monastery in Tulln.
The emperor’s use of the surrounding land as hunting grounds made Oberdöbling attractive both for the nobility and for members of Vienna’s bourgeoisie.
As in Hietzing, which profited from its proximity to the Schönbrunn Palace, this phenomenon created the basis for Oberdöbling’s privileged development.
The last lord of Oberdöbling was Anton Edler von Wirth, who had bought the land from the authorities responsible for administrating state property in 1824.
In 1892, Oberdöbling, along with the surrounding suburbs of Grinzing, the Kahlenbergerdorf, Nußdorf, Heiligenstadt, Sievering and Josefsdorf, was turned into the 19th district of Vienna, Döbling.
In contrast to the situation in the surrounding villages, viticulture had already lost any significance in Oberdöbling’s economy at the start of the 19th century.
After the brewery was destroyed in World War II, the Kopenhagenhof Gemeindebau was built in its stead.
Other important enterprises established in the 19th century included the Vereinigte Tintenfabriken Hartmann und Mittler, later known as the Kuli-Werk, which existed between 1867 and 1968 and stood at number 8 in the Gatterburggasse.
Oberdöbling’s first theatre opened in 1835 in the desacralised Johanneskapelle on the corner of the Döblinger Hauptstraße and the Hofzeile.
Nowadays, Oberdöbling is home to the most important local museum, the Bezirksmuseum Döbling, which is housed in the Villa Wertheimstein.
Besides the Döbling Parish Church, Oberdöbling is also home to the nunnery of the Schwestern vom armen Kinde Jesu.
It housed inter alia the graves of Johann Strauß the Elder and Joseph Lanner, whose remains were transferred to the city’s central cemetery.
The GRG 19 and the GRW 19 are located in the Billrothstraße, the grammar school and business school of the Schwestern vom Armen Kinde Jesu are in the Hofzeile, the federal technical college Wien 19 is in the Krottenbachstraße, while the GRW 19 and the BG 19 are in the Gymnasiumstraße.
