Mauer bei Wien

Mauer bei Wien, alt. 242 m, long-established exclusive residential area; part of Vienna particularly favoured by wine-growers; became part of Vienna in 1938; after the great upheavals caused by the war, it was finally integrated into the 23^rd district in 1954; situated on the southern edges of the Vienna Woods. Mauer bei Wien (where a fair has been held there since the early 18^th century) is one of numerous wine-growing villages situated along the railway line connecting Vienna with the south of Austria. On Antonshöhe Hill a hornstone mine dating from the Neolithic period has been found; Roman settlements; medieval hunting lodge owned by the Babenberg Dynasty. Late Gothic parish church, enlarged by C. Holzmeister between 1934 and 1936, stained glass windows and mosaics by A. P. Gütersloh.

Literature: F. Opll, Liesing, Wiener Bezirkskulturführer, 1981; idem, Liesing, 1982; R. Spitzer, Liesing, 1994.