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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.
About Margareten
Where to stay in Margareten
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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.
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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Updated July 2026