Wiener Neustadt presents itself as center of the southeastern area of Lower Austria. It is located on the highway between Vienna and Graz in the southeastern stonefield (Ger-man: südöstliches Steinfeld), near the border to Burgenland and the foothills of the Alps. It is the largest university town in Lower Austria. Furthermore, it is a center for technol-ogy and research and a regional center for innovation. Wiener Neustadt has developed in the last years from a grey industrial town to a modern hub of southern Lower Austria and northern Burgenland.

Population

40’000

Official Website

www.wiener-neustadt.gv.at

History

In the year of 1192, the duke of Babenberger Leopold V. decided to build up a very strong walled town in the southeastern Stonefield. For the construction of „Neuenstat“, they used a part of the ransom of the British King Richard the Lionheart.
Around the year 1200,  they started to build the Romanesque church „Zu unserer Lieben Frau“, today the Cathedral of Wiener Neustadt. Also during the era of the Babenberger, the 4-tower castle in the southeastern corner of the town was constructed. In 1751, Maria Theresia founded a military academy in this castle, which still exists today.

Basics

Public Transport

Wiener Neustadt is a small town (about 2km diameter). Only when you want to leave the town will you need public transportion.

Taxi

Tel. +43 2622 330

Trains

www.oebb.at

Airport

www.viennaairport.com

Hospitals

There is a hospital (Landesklinikum Wiener Neustadt) on Corvinusring 3-5, about 1km east of the train station and a pharmacy in the train station which is open Monday through Friday from 8.30am till 6.00pm and on Saturday from 8.30am till 12.30pm.

Internet

Café – Eterno at Hauptplatz 34; Café Witetschka at Allerheiligenplatz 1.
Insiders

Monuments

Cathedral of Wiener Neustadt with the Tower Museum; Town Museum in “St. Pe-ter an der Sperr”; Gothic way column near the urban cemetery; Town-hall; City hall; Mineralogical museum; municipal park for relaxing.

Shopping – Supermarket – Cafés - Restaurants

Between the train station and the market square (Marktplatz, where the city hall is located) you can find a variety of shops on the Singergasse, Herzog-Leopold-Straße, Ne-unkirchner Straße, and Wiener Straße, and on the market square itself.