2000 Years of Town Planning in Vienna

Wolfgang Börner

Magistrat der Stadt Wien, Geschäftsgruppe Kultur – Stadtarchäologie

Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 5/1, 1080 Vienna, Austria

e-mail: bor@gku.magwien.gv.at

Around 2000 years ago, Roman legionnaires planned and built their military fortress upon today's city terrain according to a customary and trustworthy scheme. Due to the arrival of natives and Roman citizens, further settlements, which were constructed more or less systematically, came to exist in the whereabouts of this legionnaire fortress. On these Roman walls and on some sparse remnants from the early middle ages, the cosmopolitan city of Vienna was erected.

In cooperation with the Board for City Planning, strategies were developed to conserve the historical assets of this city for the coming generations. For this reason, a Land Registration Project for Cultural Assets, which is part of a Protective Zone Project, was elaborated for the City of Vienna. This land register has been available in the Internet since Autumn 2000 (http://service.wien.gv.at/kulturkat/). In addition to buildings worth conserving and pin-pointed protective zones, all known archeological sites of the city have been included in this GIS-application of the municipal authority.