Unsere Nachbarschaft

Our Neighborhood

Viennese guidebooks and websites describe Wien's 7th District, Neubau, as picturesque, liberal, splendid, and as the bastion of the Green Party.  The blue sign at the end of our Gasse reads, The organized Neubau (area) dates back to 1621.   Neubau means, "the NEW building/construction;" clearly, our Neubau neighborhood is as funky fresh as it was in 1621.  Our street, about seven blocks long, welcomes us with the "Street of Specialists" sign and bids us "farewell" as we leave.  

Neubaugasse and the surrounding streets are filled with an eclectic mix of unique boutiques, antique dealers, produce markets, tempting bakeries, cozy cafés, and friseurs too numerous to mention.  A groovy combination of old world charm and new age hippies are evidence of the neighborhood gentrification.  Cobblestone streets and refurbished Biedermeier facades are the norm, yet the old buildings may house cell phone and computer stores, and the people we meet in the shops are as diverse as the wares they sell.  Although every day isn't a flea market day as shown in these photos, the neighborhood bustles with pedestrians, strollers, scooters, bicycles, buses (our stop is 30 meters from our front door), streetcars (our stop is a four-minute walk), and the U-bahn station (an eight-minute walk).  We feel "newly constructed" each day we reside in Neubau!