Living in the Village im Dritten — what is it like?
Short and honest: you live in a new, largely car-free neighbourhood of around eleven hectares in the 3rd district, around a two-hectare park, occupied since mid-2025. The trade-off: construction continues until 2027, the U-Bahn is not at the door, and summers get warm.
Living Snapshot — the area in numbers
The Village im Dritten is not a Grätzl of its own in Vienna Living Map’s data — what is measured are the nearest, Erdberg and Rennweg. Orientation for the surroundings, not a verdict on individual flats.
What shapes daily life
The Village im Dritten is being built on the Aspanggründe in the 3rd district: around eleven hectares on which around 2,000 flats, shops, childcare and education facilities are going up by 2027; 742 of the flats are subsidised, including SMART flats and new municipal flats. The first flats were handed over in mid-2025.
The neighbourhood is largely car-free, with a park of around two hectares at its centre. Across the whole Aspanggründe there are eventually to be around 3,250 flats, about half of them subsidised.
What works surprisingly well
Car-free and green in the middle: the paths between the buildings belong to pedestrians, and the two-hectare park is the centre of the neighbourhood.
The tram is close: the 18 stops at Wildgansplatz, and the 18, the 71 and bus 74A at St. Marx — each about four minutes on foot.
What you consciously accept
The neighbourhood will only be finished in 2027 — until then, construction is part of it. The U-Bahn is not at the door: the U3 at Schlachthausgasse is about 18 minutes on foot.
Warm and not entirely quiet: in the nearest Grätzl, Erdberg, the modelled summer-heat index is 66 out of 100, above the Vienna median of 56; on quiet it reaches 6.1, below the median of 6.8.
20 minutes of everyday life
Three stops, one evening after work — every observation is true exactly here, not everywhere.
- St. Marx 18:00
Trams 18 and 71 and bus 74A stop here, about four minutes on foot from the neighbourhood. - The park in the middle 18:05
Around two hectares of green around which the buildings are being built — with no cars in between. - Wildgansplatz 18:10
The 18 stops here on the other side of the neighbourhood, also about four minutes away.
Who is it for?
For anyone who wants to live new and car-free in the 3rd district, with a park in the neighbourhood and a tram nearby — families and people looking for subsidised housing. If you want the U-Bahn at the door, Altbau or a finished neighbourhood without construction, you will not find it here yet.
Check the light before you accept
In the Village im Dritten the buildings are only just going up — whether a flat faces the park or a courtyard decides a lot for the light. The light check calculates for the address and floor with the official heights of the neighbouring buildings; where a new building has not been measured yet, the estimate from the building class is explicitly labelled. The preview for one room is free. To the light check →
Open this place in Vienna Living Map →Erdberg · Living in the Arsenal · Rennweg · Landstraße district · Karl-Marx-Hof · Arsenal
Method & sources
Planning and figures: City of Vienna, press release on the new “Village im Dritten” quarter (OTS, 3 June 2024); wohnservice-wien.at; meinbezirk.at (read on 30 September 2026). Lines from the Wiener Linien timetable (GTFS). The Living Snapshot shows the scores of the nearest Grätzl Erdberg and Rennweg from open data (City of Vienna OGD, OpenStreetMap, Wiener Linien, Statistics Austria) — orientation, not a rating of individual flats. Walking minutes: straight line from the middle of the site × 1.3 at 80 metres per minute. The summer-heat index is a modelled value, not a measured temperature.
Frequently asked
How many flats are there in the Village im Dritten?
Around 2,000 by 2027, 742 of them subsidised, including SMART flats and new municipal flats. Across the whole Aspanggründe there are eventually to be around 3,250 flats, about half subsidised.
Is the Village im Dritten car-free?
Largely, yes: the neighbourhood of around eleven hectares is planned to be largely car-free, with a park of around two hectares at its centre.
When will the Village im Dritten be finished?
The first flats were handed over in mid-2025, and the neighbourhood is to be finished in 2027.
How is the Village im Dritten connected?
By tram: the 18 stops at Wildgansplatz, the 18, the 71 and bus 74A at St. Marx, each about four minutes on foot. The U3 at Schlachthausgasse is about 18 minutes on foot.
What is it like to live in the Village im Dritten?
New, largely car-free and with a park in the middle — but still under construction, without the U-Bahn at the door and warm in summer. The nearest Grätzl reach Living Scores of 78 (Erdberg) and 82 (Rennweg).