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Margareten, Vienna — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Margareten is the fifth district of Vienna, a dense residential quarter beside the old town that takes its name from Margaret of Antioch.
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Where to stay in Margareten
The practical side of choosing where to sleep.
Margareten suits visitors who want an affordable, walkable base a short tram ride from the centre of Vienna, on quiet streets rather than a marquee address. Rooms here stay plain. The blocks around the Herz Jesu Kirche and the old hamlet of Hundsturm are lined with everyday shops and cafes instead of sights, which keeps both the prices and the mood local.
Book Margareten for practical, well-connected rooms close to the fourth district and the ring of inner Vienna.
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Around the Herz Jesu Kirche
The streets around the Herz Jesu Kirche keep everyday shops and plain, well-priced rooms within a tram ride of central Vienna.Find hotels in Around the Herz Jesu Kirchea calm base in old HundsturmOld Hundsturm
The former hamlet of Hundsturm keeps its quiet lanes and the small Hundsturmer Kapelle, a residential pocket well off the tourist track.Find hotels in Old HundsturmHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around Vienna
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Museums & Galleries
3- Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum
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- Wieden district museum
Churches & Religious Sites
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- Florianikirche Heritage
- Lazaristenkirche, Vienna Heritage
- Ägydiuskirche Gumpendorf, Vienna Heritage
- Gustavus Adolphus Church, Vienna Heritage
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- Church St-Josef Heritage
- Hundsturmer Kapelle Heritage
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1- Palais Schönburg Heritage
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About Margareten
What are the main landmarks in Margareten?
Margareten counts its landmarks among its parish churches and chapels. The Herz Jesu Kirche stands at the heart of the district's religious life, drawing its congregation from the dense streets packed around it. A smaller shrine holds the older story.
The Hundsturmer Kapelle survives from the vanished hamlet of Hundsturm, a modest chapel that outlasted the village folded into Margareten during the nineteenth century.
What is the history of Margareten?
Margareten took shape in 1861, when it was separated from the fourth district of Vienna and set up as the city's fifth district. Its name reaches back further. The quarter honours Margaret of Antioch, the early Christian saint whose name passed first to the former settlement here and then to the district itself.
Older hamlets such as Hundsturm lay scattered across the ground before the tenement boom, and their lanes were swallowed as workshops and apartment houses filled the fifth district.
Where is Margareten?
Margareten covers a small, densely built patch of inner Vienna, wedged between the fourth district and the streets that ring the old town of Vienna.
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What is the best area to stay in Margareten?
Around the Herz Jesu Kirche: budget stays by the Herz Jesu Kirche. Old Hundsturm: a calm base in old Hundsturm.
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Updated October 2026