Austria · Wien · Vienna
Rothneusiedl, Vienna — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Rothneusiedl is the far southern corner of Vienna, 189.91 hectares of cadastral ground inside the tenth district, Favoriten, that stayed an independent municipality until 1938 and still runs to fields and gardens rather than streets.
Find your area →
Where to stay in Rothneusiedl
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
No U-Bahn reaches Rothneusiedl, and that settles where you sleep. Vienna studied a five-kilometre branch south from Reumannplatz through the 1970s, costed the Reumannplatz-Rothneusiedl line at around 860 million euros for an opening in 2015, then in 2012 sent the U1 to Oberlaa instead. Alaudagasse is where that fork would start. A junction is to be prepared inside that station in case the place ever grows enough to earn its own branch, which is a fair summary of Rothneusiedl: somewhere to go, not somewhere to stay.
Book on the U1 in Favoriten, keep Reumannplatz for the straight run into the middle of Vienna, and allow for roughly two kilometres of bus or footpath at the far end.
Few places to stay in Rothneusiedl — most visitors book in Favoriten or Vienna nearby.
About Rothneusiedl
What are the main landmarks in Rothneusiedl?
One church and one protected street front carry the whole register here. The Filialkirche Rothneusiedl stands free on a green plot at Himberger Straße, a plain hall church with the tower set at the corner of the choir, built to plans by the architect and sculptor Oskar Dechant and consecrated in 1955. Francis of Assisi is the patron.
It answers to the parish at Oberlaa and replaced a makeshift place of worship in the inn diagonally opposite. Around it the City of Vienna has drawn a building protection zone over the older frontage of Himberger Straße, and that zone carries on into the Neulaa corner of Oberlaa.
What is the history of Rothneusiedl?
A charter of 1301 names it. Settlers are thought to have reached this corner of the Favoriten woodland in the ninth century, and the Roth in the name is read either as patches of red earth or as the clearing work that opened the ground. Farming ran the village and industry barely touched it; the exception was the tegel clay dug in the fields around it from the middle of the nineteenth century, which is why Favoriten's coat of arms gives Rothneusiedl a red ring kiln above a silver line standing for the Liesing.
The manor seat at Liesingbachstraße 203-205 had been rebuilt in 1689 and held by the Starhemberg family from 1673 to 1817. There, on 13 October 1848, Josip Jelačić signed his counter-revolutionary appeal to the Austrians. Part of the ground passed to Vienna in 1874 with the founding of Favoriten; the law of 1 October 1938 that created Groß-Wien took the rest, and 1954 confirmed it.
Where is Rothneusiedl?
Rothneusiedl lies south of both the Liesing and the Laaer Berg, the last 189.91 hectares of Vienna before the Lower Austrian municipality of Hennersdorf begins. Follow the water upstream and you are in Inzersdorf, which already belongs to the twenty-third district of Vienna, the one named after this same stream; follow it down and Oberlaa starts. Five census tracts make the other Rothneusiedl.
That statistical counting district carries the name of the cadastral community without sharing its outline, so figures published under the name need reading twice: the cadastral community held about 700 people in 2001, and 120 in 1783.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Rothneusiedl?
Favoriten: travellers who want the U1 and a short ride out to Rothneusiedl. Vienna: a first visit that only takes in Rothneusiedl for an afternoon.
More areas in Vienna
Updated September 2026