Living at the Berresgasse — what is it like?
Short and honest: you live in a new neighbourhood on the eastern edge of the city, with around 3,000 flats, a large education campus and a tram in the neighbourhood — in surroundings quieter and cooler than the Vienna median. The trade-off: the centre is far, and the U-Bahn is a quarter of an hour on foot.
Living Snapshot — the area in numbers
The Berresgasse is not a Grätzl of its own in Vienna Living Map’s data — what is measured is the nearest, Hirschstetten, just under a kilometre away. Orientation for the surroundings, not a verdict on individual flats.
What shapes daily life
North of the Berresgasse, according to the City of Vienna, a neighbourhood with around 3,000 flats, offices, shops, leisure facilities, a school and a kindergarten is being built on 19 hectares. Most of it is subsidised: 1,700 subsidised rental flats, 870 SMART flats and 230 municipal flats, plus housing for young people, older people and people with special needs — room for around 7,000 people.
At the edge of the neighbourhood stands an education campus with 1,100 places: 12 kindergarten groups, 17 all-day primary and 12 all-day middle-school classes, in operation since autumn 2020.
What works surprisingly well
Quiet and cool by Vienna standards: in the nearest Grätzl, Hirschstetten, quiet is 8.9 (Vienna median 6.8), and the modelled summer-heat index 53 out of 100 (median 56).
The tram runs through the neighbourhood: the 27 stops at Berresgasse, plus buses 85A, 95A and 97A. School and kindergarten are in the neighbourhood itself.
What you consciously accept
The centre is far: the Berresgasse lies on the eastern edge of the city, and the U2 at Hausfeldstraße is about 17 minutes on foot.
Freely financed flats are the exception: most of it is built with subsidies, with the conditions that come with them.
20 minutes of everyday life
Three stops, one morning — every observation is true exactly here, not everywhere.
- Education campus 7:40
At the edge of the neighbourhood: 1,100 places from kindergarten to middle school, in operation since autumn 2020. - Berresgasse 7:48
Tram 27 stops here, plus buses 85A, 95A and 97A. - Towards the U2 7:55
Hausfeldstraße station is about 17 minutes on foot from the neighbourhood.
Who is it for?
For anyone who wants to live subsidised, new and quiet, with a school in the neighbourhood. If you need to get to the centre quickly every day or are looking for a freely financed flat, you will find little here.
Check the light before you accept
In the new neighbourhood at the Berresgasse, many buildings have not been measured in the city data yet. The light check calculates for the address and floor with the official heights of the neighbouring buildings; where a new building has no measured height yet, the estimate from the building class is explicitly labelled. The preview for one room is free. To the light check →
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Method & sources
Planning and figures: City of Vienna, “Berresgasse — Neues Stadtviertel in der Donaustadt”; reports on the Berresgasse education campus (meinbezirk.at, W24), read on 30 September 2026. Lines from the Wiener Linien timetable (GTFS). The Living Snapshot is the score of the nearest Grätzl, Hirschstetten, from open data (City of Vienna OGD, OpenStreetMap, Wiener Linien, Statistics Austria) — orientation, not a rating of individual flats. Walking minutes: straight line × 1.3 at 80 metres per minute. The summer-heat index is a modelled value, not a measured temperature.
Frequently asked
How big is the neighbourhood at the Berresgasse?
19 hectares with around 3,000 flats for around 7,000 people: 1,700 subsidised rental flats, 870 SMART flats, 230 municipal flats and special forms of housing, plus offices, shops, a school and a kindergarten.
Which school is at the Berresgasse?
An education campus with 1,100 places: 12 kindergarten groups, 17 all-day primary and 12 all-day middle-school classes, in operation since autumn 2020.
How is the Berresgasse connected?
By tram 27 and buses 85A, 95A and 97A. The U2 at Hausfeldstraße is about 17 minutes on foot.
What is it like to live at the Berresgasse?
New, mostly subsidised, quiet and with a school in the neighbourhood — but on the edge of the city. The nearest Grätzl, Hirschstetten, reaches a Living Score of 84 and is quieter and cooler than the Vienna median.