Gürtel, Vienna

Gürtel, Vienna

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.

Further reading

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


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