Küniglberg

The Küniglberg is a 261-meter-high hill in Vienna's 13th district, Hietzing, and is considered the westernmost foothill of the Vienna Woods. The name probably goes back either to the imperial procurator Wolfgang Künigl in the 16th century or to a baron von Künigl, who built a country house here in the late 18th century. Geologically, the subsoil consists of gravels and sands from the Upper Miocene, interpreted as deposits of the former Vienna Sea. Shortly before World War I, the hill was developed with a military veterans' home, and during World War II it served as the site of an anti-aircraft barracks. Today the Küniglberg is best known for the ORF Center, completed in 1975 and designed by Roland Rainer. Other sights include the Lainz Cemetery, the neo-Gothic Hummel Chapel, which was moved to a different location in 1938, and a small, undeveloped recreation area in the north. Also of archaeological interest is the underground course of a Roman aqueduct on the southwest slope, which led to the Vindobona legionary camp.