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The Millennium Tower, Handelskai and the Augarten — workspaces in Vienna's 20. Bezirk between the Donaukanal and the Danube.
The 20. Bezirk — Brigittenau — was separated from Leopoldstadt in 1900, after the original meadow lands between the Donaukanal and the Danube urbanised through the late 19th century. The district takes its name from the Brigittakapelle (1645), built after Swedish troops advanced north of Vienna during the Thirty Years' War. Today Brigittenau is dominated by two anchors: the Millennium Tower, the 202-metre office tower next to the Handelskai U-Bahn / S-Bahn station, completed in 1999 to designs by Gustav Peichl, Boris Podrecca and Rudolf F. Weber — Austria's tallest office building until DC Tower 1 (2014); and the Augarten, the historic 18th-century imperial garden that Emperor Joseph II opened to the public in 1775. The district is residential, working-class in heritage, and has been densifying with new corporate floors since the Millennium Tower opening.
Brigittenau's modern character is half-canal, half-river. The Donaukanal forms the southern boundary, the Danube the northern, with the Augarten anchoring the south-eastern corner and the Millennium City complex (Millennium Tower plus mall) the western. The Regus Millennium Tower coworking offer occupies the upper floors of the tower itself, with panoramic Danube views.
For coworking, Brigittenau is a value-oriented alternative to Leopoldstadt: same canal-and-river geography but lower rents and slightly less central. Members are typically Vienna outposts of larger companies based in the Millennium Tower complex (insurance, logistics, regional offices), plus a long tail of independent professionals serving the dense residential population (over 86,000 residents).
The Millennium Tower hosts a mix of Austrian corporates, regional offices of European insurance and logistics groups, and the Vienna offices of consulting firms. The connected Millennium City mall provides amenities (food court, supermarket, gym, cinema) for the office population. Outside the tower, Brigittenau's economy is residential and SME-led — small businesses serving the dense apartment stock, plus the cultural cluster around the Augarten with the Augarten Porcelain Manufactory (1718, the oldest porcelain manufactory in Austria) and the Vienna Boys' Choir's home institution.
U-Bahn: Handelskai (U6) at the southern edge, Dresdner Straße (U6), Jägerstraße (U6) and Friedensbrücke (U4) at the canal corner. The U6 runs the western boundary along the Brigittenauer Brücke axis.
Train: Wien Handelskai is a major S-Bahn interchange (S1, S2, S3, S40, S45) right next to the Millennium Tower entrance.
Tram + bus: Trams 31, 32 and 33 run north–south through the district. Multiple Wiener Linien buses fill in.
Walking: Leopoldstadt is 2 minutes east across Pappenheimgasse; the Innere Stadt 8 minutes south across Schottenring; Spittelau (U4 + U6) 3 minutes south of Friedensbrücke.
Airport: Vienna International (VIE) is around 25 minutes via U6 to Spittelau / U4 / S7.
Millennium Tower — the 202-metre office tower (1999, by Peichl, Podrecca and Weber) at Handelskai 94–96, Austria's tallest office building until DC Tower 1 (2014). Hosts the Regus Millennium Tower coworking floors among other tenants.
Millennium City — the mall connected to the tower, with food court, supermarket, gym and the largest cinema in northern Vienna.
Augarten — the historic Baroque park (the 18th-century imperial hunting garden, opened to the public 1775), with the Augarten Porcelain Manufactory (1718, the oldest in Austria) and the Vienna Boys' Choir Konzerthaus MuTh.
Brigittakapelle — the 1645 chapel that gave the district its name, after the Thirty Years' War advance of Swedish troops.
Donaukanal-Promenade — the southern district boundary along the canal, with the Friedensbrücke and Brigittenauer Brücke as crossings to Alsergrund and Leopoldstadt.
The 202-metre office tower at Handelskai 94–96, completed in 1999 to designs by Gustav Peichl, Boris Podrecca and Rudolf F. Weber. It was Austria's tallest office building until DC Tower 1 took the title in 2014. The connected Millennium City mall provides amenities for the office population.
Brigittenau is one district north of Leopoldstadt, on the same Donaukanal-and-Danube island. It's more residential and less central, with rents typically 15–25% below Leopoldstadt for equivalent workspace. Leopoldstadt has weXelerate and the Prater; Brigittenau has the Millennium Tower and the Augarten. Both are 2 minutes apart at Pappenheimgasse.
The split happened in 1900, after the original meadow lands of Brigittenau urbanised through the late 19th century and the original Leopoldstadt district had grown too populous to govern as a single unit. The 20. Bezirk took the northern part of the original Leopoldstadt plus the Zwischenbrücken area between the Donaukanal and the Danube.
The Baroque park established as an 18th-century imperial hunting garden, opened to the public by Emperor Joseph II in 1775 — the same year he opened the Prater. Inside the park: the Augarten Porcelain Manufactory (1718, the oldest in Austria), the Vienna Boys' Choir's home institution and concert hall MuTh, and two unmistakable WW2 anti-aircraft towers (Flaktürme) preserved as monuments.
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