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Simmering is the 11th district of Vienna, the capital of Austria. It is the part of town travellers arriving at Schwechat Airport invariably have to cross on their
way to the city. Simmering's most striking feature is probably the largest cemetery
in Vienna, the Zentralfriedhof, opened in 1874, with lots of Ehrengräber (Brahms, Beethoven, Schönberg, Schubert and "the waltz king" Johann Strauß
are interred there).
In 2001 Simmering got a new landmark called Gasometer. It is four former gas-holders that
had been built inside the communal gasworks in 1896-1899 and that were revitalized and converted in 1999-2001 after they had been
decommissioned in 1984. They were converted from gas-tanks to new buildings filled with apartments, a student residence, offices
and a shopping mall.
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See also simmering (cooking technique).
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