page_title: Gürtel, Vienna
section_title: Layout
hierarchical_section_title: Gürtel, Vienna / Layout
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ubahn-Station Alser Straße
context_page_description: The Gürtel is a substantial city road of Vienna. Running 13.1 km parallel to the famous Vienna Ring Road, it encompasses the inner city districts and follows the route of the former Linienwall outer fortification. The city's red-light district is situated around the Gürtel.
context_section_description: The road is officially called B 221 Wiener Gürtel Straße.  
  In the south it starts at the junction with the A23 Südosttangente motorway in the Landstraße district and runs westward toward the  Central Station, where the Vienna Pre-metro has been built under surface. There the Wiedner Gürtel and Margaretengürtel mark the border of Wieden and Margareten with the southern Favoriten suburb.  The Gürtel then turns north, running along the eastern rim of the Meidling suburb, crossing the Wienfluss and the Wienzeile road, separating the inner city districts of Mariahilf and Neubau in the east from Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus with the Westbahnhof. The road continues as the border of Josefstadt and Alsergrund with the outer Hernals and Währing districts, passing the General Hospital (Allgemeines Krankenhaus, AKH) and the Volksoper. 
  At its northern end in Döbling, the Gürtel reaches the Donaukanal at the Gürtelbrücke.  From the Wienzeile to the northern end, the dual carriageway is accompanied by the historic Stadtbahn viaduct designed by Otto Wagner, today operated by the U6 U-Bahn line.
caption: U-Bahn station Alser Straße at Hernalser Gürtel, seen towards the north
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