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Simmering, Vienna — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Simmering is Vienna's 11th district, set up in 1892 along the Danube, and holds the Vienna Central Cemetery among its four burial grounds.
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Where to stay in Simmering
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
The Vienna Central Cemetery anchors most trips out here. Beds in the 11th district are municipal-housing territory rather than hotel rows, so a stay usually means a quiet street near the Friedrich-Engels-Hof or Strindberghof and a ride in for anything central. Space is not short.
Anyone drawn by the Danube frontage or by Schloss Kaiserebersdorf gains from being out this far, while a first visit to Vienna is better served closer to the middle.
Few places to stay in Simmering — most visitors book in Vienna nearby.
About Simmering
What are the main landmarks in Simmering?
Cemeteries define the register here. Vienna Central Cemetery is one of the largest in Europe, and the district holds three more burial grounds beside it, among them the Friedhof der Namenlosen and the Kaiserebersdorfer Friedhof. Schloss Kaiserebersdorf survives from earlier.
Churches run to several, Altsimmering Church, Neusimmering Church, Hasenleiten Parish Church and Saint Charles Borromeo Church, while Betriebsbahnhof Simmering and the Verwaltungsgebäude des Wiener E-Werkes Simmering record the district's working side.
What is the history of Simmering?
Names here outlast the boundary. Simmering was established as a district of Vienna in 1892, and the labels it carries reach further back than that, from Schloss Kaiserebersdorf to the parish churches at Altsimmering and Kaiserebersdorf. Housing estates followed.
Friedrich-Engels-Hof, Josef-Scheu-Hof, Strindberghof, Rosa-Jochmann-Hof and the Siedlung Weißenböckstraße are all named on the district's record, and the Gedenkstätte für NS-Opfer stands as a memorial to victims of National Socialism.
Where is Simmering?
The 11th district of Vienna, in Austria, borders the Danube and takes in Kaiserebersdorf alongside the older settlement at Altsimmering.
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What is the best area to stay in Simmering?
Central Vienna: first visits that need the middle of Vienna.
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Updated September 2026