Route South takes you to the 10th and 11th districts of Vienna – Favoriten and Simmering. Favoriten is the most populous district of Vienna, with about 10% of all inhabitants of Vienna living here, a number that would correspond to the fourth largest city in Austria. The area close to the city – Innerfavoriten – consists of Gründerzeit-style buildings and former industrial plants. South of the Wienerberg and Laaer Berg, there are large housing estates and municipal buildings from the 20th century as well as the spacious green and open spaces of Wienerberg and Laaer Berg. On the city border with Lower Austria, some old village centers are also still preserved, such as Oberlaa, Unterlaa or Rothneusiedl. Simmering is located in the southeast of Vienna and essentially comprises the former Viennese suburbs of Simmering, Kaiserebersdorf and Albern. In 1860, rapid metropolitan development began here. Large parts of the district such as the Simmeringer Haide initially remained undeveloped and are now home to industrial enterprises and market gardens. In the far southeast of the district, remnants of the formerly large Danube floodplain forests have survived. In the south-west, the Vienna Central Cemetery occupies extensive areas.

On Route South we start in one of Vienna’s largest housing estates, the Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung. The various interventions there aim to make large post-war modernist housing estates fit for the future. The tour continues to the Sonnwendviertel Ost district, where neighborhood houses and building group projects characterize this new, small-scale district south of Vienna’s main train station. On the way from Sonnwendviertel Ost to the Smarter Together project area, which encompasses the entire Simmeringer central area, there are projects by LiLa4Green in Innerfavoriten as well as 50 Green Houses, which deal with greening measures in the existing city. You can take walks in all three IBA neighborhoods. The first construction preparations are now underway for the G’mischter Block residential project, which is also located on this route.