Vienna/Outer East

Outer East describes the Vienna districts Floridsdorf and Donaustadt.

Understand
Floridsdorf (21) radiates from its own town center in the northeast on the eastern bank of the Danube. Donaustadt (22) includes a mix of farms, suburbia, housing blocks, villages, the United Nations Headquarters and the Donauturm (Danube Tower) and includes the largest development project in Central Europe at Aspern. Many of these lands were flooding zones by the danube. Hence they are modern parts of Vienna.

This part of Vienna was urbanized mostly after World War II. Until the 1990s, it retained a rural feeling. Besides several big housing complexes of the 1920s and several prominent recent developments (e.g. Großfeldsiedlung, Donau City, Seestadt Aspern) one can still stroll around old villages that in parts kept their countryside style (e.g. Stammersdorf, Aspern, Süßenbrunn). You can also find vast areas of Natural Reserves (Bisamberg) and even a section of Danube Wetlands National Park (Lobau).

By rail
Three U-bahn lines stretch into the Outer East, namely, and.

Tram 31 brings you from central Vienna across Danube to the shopping malls in the northern part of this district, while the lines 25 and 26 are useful for getting around this district in the southeast-northwest direction.

When arriving from north or east of Vienna, alight the suburban railway (S-Bahn) at Floridsdorf or the trains from Bratislava, Prague or Warsaw at Stadlau and you are directly in the area.

By car
The Motorways A22 and S2 cut through this district. If you're driving and want to visit Vienna, consider picking a hotel in this part of Vienna. You can park your car and continue by U-bahn or tram and thereby avoid the hassle of driving and finding a (probably more expensive) parking place in central Vienna.

Go next
The obvious place to go next inside of Vienna is Vienna/Inner East. The other possibility is to continue outside to Vienna/Outer West or Vienna/Outer South.