Gürtel, Vienna

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The Währinger Gürtel quite close to Vienna's General Hospital, Allgemeines Krankenhaus. To the left is Währing, Vienna's 18th district.

The Volksoper is located on the Gürtel in Alsergrund

The Gürtel (literally belt) is a substantial city ring road of Vienna. Formerly traffic on this road moved on the left, as in Britain. Following the Anschluss in 1938, traffic flow was redirected to pass on the right as elsewhere on the Continent.

[edit] Further reading

• Madeleine Petrovic: Der Wiener Gürtel. Wiederentdeckung einer lebendigen Prachtstraße (Verlag Christian Brandstätter: Wien, 1998) (ISBN 3854477236).

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