Steinhof in

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, is an old name for an area of Vienna that today contains the Otto-Wagner-Spital as well as its church

Kirche am Steinhof Kirche am Steinhof, also called the Church of St. Leopold, is the Roman Catholic oratory of the Otto-Wagner-Spital in the area of Steinhof in Vienna, Austria. The building, designed by Otto Wagner, is considered one of the most important Art N ...

and the surrounding parks of the Steinhofgründe, which were opened in 1907. Historically the area is also linked to the

Am Spiegelgrund clinic Am Spiegelgrund was a children's clinic in Vienna during World War II, where 789 patients were murdered under child euthanasia in Nazi Germany. Between 1940 and 1945, the clinic operated as part of the psychiatric hospital Steinhof (Vienna), Am S ...

, where 789 patients, mostly children, were murdered during

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under the

child euthanasia in Nazi Germany Child euthanasia () was the name given to the organized killing of severely mentally and physically disabled children and teenagers up to 16 years old during the Nazi era in over 30 so-called "special children's wards". At least 5,000 children wer ...

from 1940 to 1945.''Steinhof, Vienna - A center of Nazi medical crimes''
website dedicated to the events between 1940 and 1945, viewed on July 11th, 2021 The name derives from the quarries of nearby

Ottakring Ottakring () is the 16th Districts of Vienna, District in the city of Vienna, Austria (). It is located west of the central districts, north of Penzing (Vienna), Penzing and south of Hernals. Ottakring has some heavily populated urban areas with m ...

, which were called ''Steinhöfe'' (). The area used to belong to

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, but was assigned to the 14th district of Vienna, Penzing, after the ''

Anschluss The (, or , ), also known as the (, ), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938. The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a "German Question, Greater Germany") arose after t ...

'' of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938.

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