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Unter-Sankt-Veit, Vienna — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Unter-Sankt-Veit is a villa quarter of Vienna where the Klimt-Villa and the Gustav-Klimt-Denkmal stand a few streets from the old parish core.
About Unter-Sankt-Veit
Where to stay in Unter-Sankt-Veit
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Hietzing and Penzing hold the beds within two kilometres, but the villa streets of Unter-Sankt-Veit are the reason some travellers cross the district line and stay put. Quiet is the currency. You wake among garden walls with the Klimt-Villa a few streets off. Baumgarten lies under a kilometre away, and Lainz and Speising are close enough to fold into the same day.
About Unter-Sankt-Veit
What are the main landmarks in Unter-Sankt-Veit?
Two Klimt landmarks sit here. The Klimt-Villa is the district's best-known address, and the Gustav-Klimt-Denkmal stands as its companion memorial, both of them within the same quiet spread of villa streets that fills this part of Vienna. Churches account for the rest.
The Unter St. Veiter Pfarrkirche marks the old core, the Pfarrkirche Zum Guten Hirten adds a second parish, and the Oblatenkloster St. Paul completes the set.
What is the history of Unter-Sankt-Veit?
Unter-Sankt-Veit grew around a parish rather than a market. Its church core still sets the shape of the streets, and later the Klimt-Villa gave the quarter a second kind of fame that the Gustav-Klimt-Denkmal marks in stone. Two parishes served the ground.
The Pfarrkirche Zum Guten Hirten stands as the second of them, and Baumgarten and Penzing carry their own.
Where is Unter-Sankt-Veit?
Unter-Sankt-Veit spreads across villa streets inside Vienna, with Baumgarten under a kilometre off and Hietzing, Penzing and Lainz about two.
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Updated September 2026