The site borders on Taborstraße in the south, Nordwestbahnstraße in the west, Dresdnerstraße in the east and Stromstrasse in the north.

All contracts with tenants and subtenants will expire at the end of 2017 to begin demolition of the site for the construction of a new urban development area.

In the middle of the 19th century due to the lower taxes and the lack of space, public amusement opportunities were established outside the city walls.

[7] The owner Ferdinand Bachmaier (1826-1903) demanded the enormous sum of 100,000 florins as compensation for the railway construction.

Due to the heavily strained state budget in the years around the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the boycott of tax increases by the Imperial Council, which was dominated by the nobility, the state sold existing railway lines to private investors and promoted the expansion and new construction with guaranteed interest for shares.

Not only the regulation of the Danube river, but also the forthcoming Vienna World's Fair in 1873 led to a violent building speculation at the time of the station construction.

The financing model ultimately did not bring any relief for the state budget, but rather enormously increased the costs.

[13] Stuttgart professor of architecture Wilhelm Sophonias Bäumer was commissioned by the Northwest Railway Construction Department to build the passenger station, after he had been invited to submit a draft in 1869.

[17] The Nordwestbahnhof, the main work of Bäumer, was stylistically inspired by the shapes of Italian Renaissance palaces.

The central main entrance was accentuated by arcades, a large semicircular window and a gable roofing reminiscent of a city gate.

[18] The vaulted ceiling was designed with shields of various allegories and the names of experts from the painter Pietro Isella from Morcote.

There was plenty of cassetted ceilings, rich wall paintings, wallpapers and pilasters as well as exquisite lighting fixtures.

The painter Hermann Burghart designed the waiting room of the first class, which cities and views of the Nordwest-Bahn were concerned.

In fact, the costs amounted to ƒ2.3 million including financing, despite an extremely short construction period of around 17 months.

In the period up to 1914, the freight station was extended several times by the construction of tracks (a total of 51), magazines and transfer platforms.

The North Sea ports were also used to transport the first tropical fruit, the bananas, to Vienna via the Northwest Station.

Companies of different sizes arose in the new development area of the 20th district, as new sources of economic income opened up with the railway traffic.

The first political event that took place at Nordwestbahnhof was the assassination of social democratic politician Franz Schuhmeier.

After the opening of the "snow palace" on 26 November 1927, the Social Democratic mayor of Vienna, Karl Seitz, was attacked by a pistol, which he and his companions survived unharmed.

In order to relieve the pressure on Nordbahnhof, the Deutsche Reichsbahn demanded the railway station back on December 12, 1942, and provisionally repaired it again.

The Northwest Station was severely damaged by Soviet artillery fire during the Vienna Offensive in April 1945 shortly before the end of the war.

The Russian occupying power (Red Army) required a rail link to Russia in order to remove booty from Austria.

This 652 m long loop of the Russians led from the easternmost corner of the Nordwestbahnhof to the westernmost tracks of the Nordbahnhof (Northern Railway Station) across the confluence of Taborstraße and Nordbahnstraße.

It was also used by heavy steam locomotives (e. g. DRB Class 52) and crossed the tracks of the tram line "O" on the same level without technical protection.

[32] After the resumption of scheduled train services on the North Railway Bridge, the new Praterstern station was provisionally put into operation.

In the 1970s, the site of the Northwest Station was expanded into a then modern freight and container terminal with cranes and warehouses.

A re-use concept based on the High Line Park in New York was developed for the approach route of the former Nordwestbahnhof (northwest station), the siding of the Nordwestbahnhof to the Donauuferbahn (Nussdorf to Wiener Hafen) and the High Line Park in New York.

The almost 2 km long railway embankment would provide an uninterrupted pedestrian and bicycle connection to the Danube and would link the entire catchment area to the planned Nordwestbahnhof-Park and Augarten.