WBB exclusive promotion: Meet your district leader
Five Vienna district newspaper readers are there when it says: “Meet your Ottakring district leader for a nice chat.” Vienna district newspaper readers know: Stefanie Lamp is 35 years old –...
Ottakring: We have a big summer of renovation ahead of us
Of 471 district proposals for climate projects, three will be implemented, including the “Ottakring main square near the U3 terminus”. From summer onwards, together with the third section of the...
We are Tschauner: 1.000 years of impromptu fun & laughter attacks
Thousands of fans are already looking forward to the opening of the unique Pawlatschen stage in Ottakring on June 11th. With new productions for the 115th birthday. “We are Tschauner” means...
In the spotlight: weeks for work and further training
The vocational and further training weeks organized by waff will take place again in the 19th, 14th, 15th and 16th districts until April 17th. Previous...
Boxing night: Two big winners as a strong coronation
Great: The new WBF welterweight world champion is called Michaela Kotaskova and comes from the Ottakringer Bounce boxing stable. A fantastic success for the 32-year-old. Also Thai boxing legend Fadi Merza...
The Theater Frischluft is coming to Vienna's Beserlparks
The Fresh Air Theater is once again heading to Vienna's parks. The successful “Beserlparktheater” concept is entering its sixth season. Parks in...
Healthy districts: Start of the free participation activities!
Vienna Health Promotion – WiG is launching the free, hands-on “Exercise” campaign in ten districts of Vienna. In April, May, June, September and October there are...
Ottakring Clinic: Groundbreaking ceremony for the new administrative building
A new administration building with 2026 square meters of usable space will be built in the Ottakring Clinic by the end of 4.140. The groundbreaking ceremony for this has now taken place. It is a...
Ottakring: Joesi Prokopetz reads from the “Hofer”
Attention literature lovers: On April 18th, the renowned author, lyricist, musician and cabaret artist Joesi Prokopetz will give a reading from his...
Grace wedding in the 16th district: 72 years full of happiness
A remarkable anniversary: Elfriede and Michael Grössinger from Ottakring are celebrating their wedding of grace and can look back on a long, fulfilling time with 72 years of marriage. The couple...
Find out about job opportunities in four districts
Seize the opportunity: The motto is the “Vienna Weeks for Career and Further Education” in districts 14, 15, 16 and 17. In total...
Ottakring tastes good: Where the Easter ham is at home
Tradition obliges: The traditional company at Ottakringer Straße 1930 has been providing jobs and good quality since the 140s. And with the Easter ham there are limitless...
Ottakring: Insight into the climate team projects
Of 471 proposals for climate projects, three are being implemented: "Ottakring main square at the U3 terminus", "Future perspective Friedrich-Kaiser-Gasse" and "Neulerchenfeld climate district". On March 28th you can...
Adventure lecture on the trail of Lucky Luke!
There will be a remarkable lecture on March 20th at 19 p.m. in the Alt-Ottakring parish hall: Four friends rode through North America on horseback and experienced great...
Ottakring: Welcome to the first Easter!
There will be an Easter premiere on Saturday, March 16th, at the U3 terminus in Ottakring: the first “Easter Market” invites you to have egg fun. It starts at 12 p.m. on...
Ottakring: Dog sniffs out old bomb
Chance Inspector Spürnase struck in the Ottakringer Forest and sniffed out a bomb site from the Second World War. It happens again and again that old...
Fighting loneliness: Offers are being expanded
Loneliness is a sad reality that affects all age groups. Social City Vienna now wants to do something specifically about it. A congress...
Bounce Fight Night with two title fights!
April 6th goes down in the city's martial arts history: two female boxers fight for the biggest possible title at the Hotel Intercontinental! This has never happened before:...
“Servus Ottakring”: Prokop as record district leader
His 20 years in office have left a considerable mark. When he moved to the pension, he said: "It was very nice, I was very happy!"...
It's done: Ottakring has a new head
On January 31st at 18.05:XNUMX p.m. the time had come: Franz Prokop's successor was officially elected by the district council. Stefanie Lamp received the...
Police record: 133 reports and 31.000 euros in fines
The police's focus operations in Ottakring continued in the new year. A pyrotechnics offender was arrested and illegal workers were discovered in several cases. In total...
The graffiti on the wall is really not crap
The wall of the manure site on Kendlerstrasse has recently been shining colorfully. Numerous artists were able to realize themselves there. Graffiti spraying is completely legal...passers-by and those driving past are...
Ottakringer Art Prize: Submission deadline extended
Art and culture have been very important in the district for 20 years. The tradition continues with the second round of the art prize. Submissions are due until Wednesday,...
Ottakring: The change at the top is certain!
As of Thursday, 16:11 p.m., it's official: Ottakring will have a new district leader in 2024. Franz Prokop (20), who has been in office for exactly 65 years, is followed...
Children's friends: Brezina & Oxonitsch in the clinic
Every year not only the Christ child comes to Ottakring, but also star children's book author Thomas Brezina. This time accompanied by Kinderfreunde boss Christian Oxonitsch and Christmas books. It...
Huge annoyance about sidewalks not being cleared!
Indignant readers point out that the cycle paths on many streets are well cleared, but the sidewalks are real snow and ice traps. As in...
Goodbye, Marcos: The end of a courageous attack
The Vienna district newspaper had already hinted at it after his last defeat, but recently it has been confirmed: Ottakringer boxer Marcos Nader is hanging up his gloves...
Personal tour of the Hohes Haus am Ring
There are now three new parliamentary dates for those interested in the western districts. National Council member Christian Oxonitsch from Ottakring personally leads through the renovated rooms of the High...
The converted Thaliastrasse lights up for Christmas
Thaliastrasse, which has been extensively remodeled since 2020, has been given new, wonderful Christmas lights. This starts the Ottakringer countdown to the big festival. "Let's be happy and shopping crazy...
Ottakring Clinic: 130 years of history at 85 meters
A construction fence now says more than 1000 words. He tells interested visitors the long history of the Ottakring Clinic using historical images. From the Ottakring Clinic...
The Ho-Ho hop joy of Christmas magic
The Ottakring Christmas elves are already busy preparing. From November 23rd, the district will be enchanted with the special Christmas market. The Christmas magic at Ottakringer Platz 1...
Grazie, Grande Dame, Golden Girl: La Leyrer
Dieter Chmelar's swipes of the month. The WBB-Edelfeder about a royal comedienne who also looks fiftieth of all the 80s: Edith Leyrer is already...
Search for cookie cutters and win a treat box!
It's Christmas in Ottakring: the district council and the Chamber of Commerce have started a big shopping street competition. It's about Thaliastrasse... The new deputy district head and...
Advice for tenants is more important today than ever before!
People's worries are increasing. The tenants' association, which has existed in Ottakring for 94 years, feels this every day. And she tries very hard. Long...
Enjoy and upcycle with STAUD'S Advent calendar
In the usual artistic design, the STAUD'S Advent calendar surprises again this year with new culinary creations. This year, the traditional Viennese company is presenting stylish upcycling ideas for...
Large-scale operation by the city because of rats and dirt
In the early hours of the morning, the emergency measures group's emergency response team carried out a large-scale operation in Ottakring. Neighbors had complained about odors and pollution. At the...
Culinary walk through the Brunnen district
Hopefully not a bad omen: it starts in Ottakring on Friday, October 13th at 16 p.m. The popular culinary walks of the “MeinKaufStadtWien” initiative attract...
Ottakring: Park named after the great Arik Brauer
A park area was opened at Ludo-Hartmann-Platz in the 16th district in honor of the late artist and Ottakringer native Arik Brauer. Timna Brauer read from the...
Ottakring: Neighbors outraged about “eyesore”!
At some point it's enough: the corner building on Schuhmeierplatz has been an unsightly construction site for many years. And it keeps getting bigger and uglier. We have...
District Business Awards: The winners from Ottakring!
The readers of the Vienna District Gazette have voted - and cast a whopping 108.000 votes in the 23 districts! Now the award ceremony has...
Ottakring district leadership: A new era begins
In the district council election on Thursday evening, Stefanie Lamp was elected as the new deputy district leader with a clear majority. Her predecessor Eva Weißmann remains a district councilor. This means that...
Have a coffee chat with the Kieberers
A special event will take place in Ottakring on October 2nd from 10 a.m. to 13 p.m.: At “Coffee with Cops” you can relax and...
Allotment garden affair: Now the district boss speaks!
The “baseless allegations” about his allotment purchase are the topic of the day. But the Ottakring district leader Franz Prokop doesn't want to let it go. Read...
Ottakring: Deserved honor for the Bambi cultural association
The Bambi cultural association, based in Huttengasse, has been doing first-class work for 50 years. Most recently, the skills of the Serbian folklore dance group were recognized with two gold medals...
The time has come: the return of the Ottakringer Kirtag!
Many Ottakringers are really looking forward to the weekend in the old town at 10er-Marie: ten rides and 14 live bands are waiting, including the cult band "Wiener...
On the weekend the hike leads to wine
On September 23rd and 24th, 2023, the city of Vienna invites you again to the Vienna Wine Hiking Day. Along the way there are wineries and wine taverns with snack bars...
Night of El Grande: Nikolic wants the WBF title!
Boxing is coming back to Vienna – thanks to the Bounce club based in Ottakring. At the next fight night at the Hotel InterContinental in a few days...
Well cheers: The Ottakringer Kirtag is like wine
The Vienna district newspaper takes on the guesswork about the exact “birthday” of the traditional festival. Until now it was assumed that the information under the Kirtag logo was correct: “since...
Prokop: “I’m really looking forward to the fair”
After months of discussions and planning, the Ottakringer Kirtag will be open from September 22.9nd after a three-year break. back on track. District boss Franz Prokop in an interview with the Vienna district newspaper...
Special youth center opens in Ottakring
357.000 euros were decided at the beginning of June for the implementation of the new queer youth center (To explain: “Queer” or “LGBTIQ” is a collective term...
Construction site finale for Bim, but not for subways
Many Viennese breathe a sigh of relief! The summer public transport construction sites are on faster trains. The Bim lines 10, 44, 46 will soon be accessible again, with...
Thaliastrasse is now an attractive climate boulevard
"Get out of the asphalt!" is currently very important - and squares and streets all over Vienna are being unsealed, greened and cooled. Completely successful...
Konichiwa! Hiroshima students visit Ottakring
The Japanese city of Hiroshima and Ottakring have been working closely together for many years. This time students from Japan visited Richard-Wagner-Platz. The Japanese...
Calle Libre Festival in Ottakring
Ottakring is getting even more colorful with the Calle Libre Festival starting today. For ten days, ten walls will be beautified because the festival for...
Ottakring Clinic: Hospital fully operational at all times
A misleading message regarding the Ottakring Clinic in one of the most watched news programs in our country is causing confusion. The medical director of the clinic presents this...
The future of the historic Ottakring Clinic begins now
The Ottakring Clinic will be comprehensively modernized by 2040. 80 pavilions will be made into 3 central buildings plus an administration building. Yesterday, City Councilor for Health Peter Hacker...
Enormous! Walked 1.500 kilometers for the clowns
The Ottakringer boxer Michaela Kotásková achieved a sensational performance. Exhausted but at the same time relieved, she arrived in the Italian capital Rome - after 1.500...
Preparations for the fair of the year are in full swing!
It was a great effort in the spring to set the course for the return of the city's most iconic fair. But now it's running like clockwork. We...
Wonderful: Tschauner menu and thigh beaters!
Walk in to the Tschauner menu, G'spritztn and a program for balling. The season at the Ottakringer Tschauner-Bühne (Maroltingergasse 43) has been running for a month - with each...
It's summer! Own play street for the children
A wonderful facility makes the summer holiday season possible. In the beautiful Ottakring. In Deinhardsteingasse near Leon-Askin-Park, a four-hour...
Ottakringer District Museum will be new during the summer break
Once again, the district museum at Richard-Wagner-Platz is taking its well-deserved summer break. A particularly exciting topic awaits visitors in autumn. Tomorrow, Thursday, 29...
Strike in the emergency room of the Ottakring Clinic
The strike committee announced that there would be a strike in the central emergency room of the Ottakring Clinic, formerly Wilhelminenspital, on Friday, June 30th, between 10 and 11...
The most wonderful sounds for modern school renovations
The music school on Thaliastrasse was converted, modernized and made completely barrier-free by the district for 850.000 euros. Recently reopened. The Vienna District Gazette has...
Special Edition: Ottakringer loves all beer circles!
With Ottakringer, the 16th district has had its own beer since 1837 - but the traditional brand values all Viennese equally and has...
It's over: Café Ritter is sliding into bankruptcy!
The two-year period of suffering is over: According to the credit protection association KSV1870, the renovation of Café Ritter has failed. The traditional restaurant on Ottakringer Straße is no longer allowed...
One street breaks all records: 178 new trees
Vienna's first climate boulevard boasts huge numbers: 36 mist nozzle systems, 24 drinking fountains and around 180 new trees that were planted. Glad...
The cheerful, colorful book cabin in Sandleiten
The Matteottiplatz in the Ottakringer Sandleitenhof is its own cosmos. A neighborhood in which the neighborhood functions well. Now there is a new center. The Sandleitenhof...
Great highlights of the new Tschauner season!
The laugh countdown of the year is on: The season takes place in the Ottakringer Tschauner from June 15th to September 4th. With lots of new...
10.000 euros for eleven lucky winners
From the bear sculpture made of thick fur to stylistically colorful and impressive paintings. The premiere of the Ottakringer Art Prize made “damn desire for happy artists”...
Bambi conquers the world from Ottakring
Who would have thought: There is now a double gold medal winner sitting in Huttengasse (corner of Hasnerstrasse). The sports and cultural association Bambi took part in the “Exhibition of...
First donation defi is now in operation!
It's not just any defibrillator that's recently been hanging at Schuhmeierplatz. It is the first “lifesaver” financed by donations. The district, the children's friends,...
Beer, music and fun at the Ottakringer Mayfest
The big Ottakringer Mayfest in the Ottakringer brewery takes place from May 1st to 6th. The popular festival in the heart of the 16th district...
First donation depot in operation in Ottakring
It's not just any defibrillator that's recently been hanging at Schuhmeierplatz. It is the first “lifesaver” financed by donations. The district, the children's friends, the...
Music school has a fresh start to spring
Comprehensive renovation work in the music school began last fall – the Vienna district newspaper reported. Now the work on and in the Thaliastraße house is complete...
The Gelbmanns: tradition for 150 years
The first land register extract for the location “Wilhelminenstrasse 62/Seitenberggasse 26” dates from 1873. Not much is known about the first owner, Zachiri Nikodemus. The first...
Community building named after “Lintschi” Pluskal
Great commitment, perseverance for youth and women's rights: This is how Karoline "Lintschi" Pluskal will be remembered. After her, the community building at Sandleitengasse 1-13...
Thaliastraße: This is how it continues
The road work will remain with us for a longer period of time. This is the bad news. The good: The beautiful part of Thaliastrasse will be further extended. Several readers have...
Marcos Nader is now going to schools
No, the likeable boxer from Enenkelstrasse will no longer be going to school. That's not his. “It’s more important to me that the kids are fit...
Ottakring: 1,3 million euros in the fight against vacancies
With the Grätzelinitiative Ottakring, the 16th district will once again become a pilot district: for the first time, urban planning and economic policy measures will be linked together around the Grätzel...
Fixed return of the most iconic fair day!
Not only the people of Ottakring, but also the fair fans in the neighborhood can mark the date in their calendars: from September 22nd to 24th...
In Sandleiten the renovations are carried out “incidentally”
Modernizing alongside ongoing operations is a logistical challenge. However, the customers who have been using the well-stocked Interspar next to the...
LeMeVi: This is the right place for visions
Two women started a quite unusual project in January after a year on the construction site. They call it “LeMeVi” or “live more visions.” In the...
Schmelz Church reopened after fire
The Catholic Holy Spirit Church has the additional name “auf der Schmelz”, but is located on Ottakringer Klausgasse (corner of Herbststrasse). The catchment area extends over the...
MP invites people to take tours of Parliament
A huge 25.000 visitors attended the opening of Parliament. Therefore, many had to forego the visit. You can do this on...
The fleshy trail through our Ottakring
“In the name of smoked meat & ham” was the motto of the first butcher tour through the district in January. While craftsmanship is almost dying out elsewhere, it is booming...
Set an example for the Ottakringer Kirtag now!
Many Ottakringers long for “their” fair day. The festival of festivals in the middle of the “Old Town” near the parish church. There's a fight going on behind the scenes...
Ottakring 1st place: Electric cars are becoming increasingly popular in Vienna
While the proportion of newly registered cars in Austria was only 2017 percent in 1,5, more and more cars on our roads are electrically powered....
District museum shows youthful dreams
A bearish exhibition awaits visitors to the Ottakring District Museum. A special exhibition entitled “Youth dreams, adventurous and fairytale-like” shows 800 bears in...
A criminal police officer, an Ottakringer & the red 8
He has lived in the district for 20 years and has now fulfilled a big dream with “Love and the Red Eight”: “It was always...
Tomas Radovan, the football king from OTK
For decades it has been completely clear to football players and young mothers and fathers: at Rado-Sport, the “football king of Ottakring”, you get everything. Shoes, bodysuits, balls, gloves, covers,...
A new BILLA for Thaliastrasse
Thaliastrasse can look back on a 150-year history. The dead straight "main street" of Ottakring is over 2,5 kilometers long and is currently being converted into a climate boulevard - the...
Up to €4.000: Ottakring awards art prize
Vienna's 16th district is known far beyond the city's borders. Ottakring is a lively and colorful district with a lot to do artistically...
This is only available in Ottakring: the beer-filled Advent market
Finally. There is a big celebration in the 16th district this year. In addition to the U3 forecourt (see page 5), especially in the brewery with the first “Christmas Magic”. From 24/11...
The “Brewery of the Year” is in Ottakring!
2022 will go down in the history of the Ottakringer Brewery as a record year. First eleven medals at the World Beer Awards, then gold, silver, bronze at...
Ottakring has been saying clearly for 13 years: Konnichiwa!
It was September 9, 9, when Mayor Michael Häupl and district leader Franz Prokop made a serious expression in front of the office building for the ceremonial appointment. Was it...
Punch & chestnuts: Ottakring celebrates Christmas
The festival will be officially celebrated twice this year in the 16th district. Once in front of the Ottakringer brewery during the first “Christmas Magic”. From November 24th to December 23rd...
Three personnel castlings in Ottakring
The retirement of long-time National Councilor Nurten Yilmaz resulted in three personnel changes in Ottakring politics. In mid-December, Christian...
The legendary Pawlatschen
The early years are a bit risky. Or let's put it this way: incompletely documented. Because history says that “the beginnings go back to 1909”....
The jam king from Ottakring
His home was always the Yppen and Brunnenmarkt. Hans Staud, the man behind the pleasure empire, was born on August 22nd, 1948 and grew up as a child...
A warm greeting from Japan in Ottakring
Ottakring's collaboration with Japan has been going on for 13 years. The most visible sign is the Hiroshima memorial on Richard-Wagner-Platz. Now there was a sequel in the form...