Key facts
- Country
- Austria
- City
- Vienna
- District director
- Thomas Steinhart (SPÖ)
- First deputy
- Ramona Miletic (SPÖ)
- Second deputy
- Katharina Krammer (FPÖ)
- Representation 60 members
- SPÖ 27, FPÖ 23, Greens 4, ÖVP 3, NEOS 2, KPÖ 1
- Total
- 23.23 km (8.97 sq mi)
- Density
- 4,566/km (11,830/sq mi)
- Postal code
- A-1110
- Address of district office
- Enkplatz 2 , A-1110 Wien
- Website
- www .wien .gv .at /bezirke /simmering /
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Simmering ( German pronunciation: [ˈzɪməʁɪŋ] ; Viennese: Simmaring) is the 11th district of Vienna, Austria (German: 11. Bezirk, Simmering). It borders the Danube and was established as a district in 1892. Simmering has several churches, some museums, schools, old castles, and four cemeteries, one of them being the Wiener Zentralfriedhof, one of the largest cemeteries of Europe.
History
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