page_title: Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus / History
caption_attribution_description: Photo of the Synagoge Turnergasse in Vienna.
context_page_description: Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus is the 15th municipal District of Vienna, Austria. It is in central Vienna, west of Innere Stadt.
  It borders Neubau and Mariahilf in the east, Meidling and Hietzing in the south, Penzing in the west, and Ottakring in the north. The northern border runs along the Gablenzgasse and eastern border along the Gürtel beltway. It includes the areas of Rudolfsheim, Fünfhaus and Sechshaus.
context_section_description: After the second Turkish siege of Vienna, the villages of Reindorf, Braunhirschen, and Rustendorf arose and were in 1863 combined into the municipality of Rudolfsheim, named after the Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. In the nineteenth century, the district grew significantly, and in 1890 was incorporated along with nearby communities Fünfhaus and Sechshaus into Vienna proper. The northern and eastern parts of Fünfhaus became the fifteenth district and the area of Rudolfsheim and Sechshaus became the fourteenth district under the name of Rudolfsheim alone. In 1938 Rudolfsheim and Fünfhaus were unified into the 15th district, and the 14th district became the part of the 13th district north of the Wien River. Since 1957, the 15th district has been named Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus.
  From 1871 to 1938, there had been the synagogue on Turner Street, but during the November Pogrom Kristallnacht, it was destroyed, along with 91 other Viennese synagogues. Only the City Temple in the 1st District survived the night unscathed.
  In the 1990s, there were several small changes in district boundaries. In 1992, the boundaries were altered in the area of the Auer-Welsbach Park.
  In 1995, the district boundaries changed in two sections of the belt,
  and in the field Kendlerstraße, Sporckplatz and Ibsenstraße.
  The most recent change was marginal in 1996 in the area of Europe square in front of the Western Railway Station.
  These border changes were not in residential areas, but especially at transport buildings, parks and sports facilities.
caption: The synagogue on Turnergasse street (c.1900).
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