The village at the end of line 60
Rodaun — quiet living on a tram, with an honest travel time
A terminus loop, a village core, the Vienna Woods just behind: Rodaun is the village end of tram 60. Quiet, green, hilly — and joined to the city by a single line.
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You start at the terminus of tram 60, where the village begins: a church, old houses, behind them the Vienna Woods rise. This walk goes through the quiet village core and asks the question that hangs over an edge location like this — what does the calm cost in travel time? Not a walk for short city errands, but one for anyone weighing it up: plenty of green and quiet at the end of the line, but a longer way to everything livelier. The same 60 joins this end over the villas of Speising into the dense Gürtel — three residential worlds on one tram.
Who is this walk for?
A walk for families and anyone weighing a quiet edge with a longer ride against a dense, central spot. You feel here how much green and quiet is possible at the end of a line — and how much you have to build the travel time into everyday life.
Good to know
The calm has a price in time: from Rodaun tram 60 is reliable but long — reaching the livelier parts of the city takes a while. For spontaneous, short errands you are far out here.
And it climbs: the residential streets at the forest edge rise, the way home with shopping is a thing. Without a car you build the one line firmly into your day.
The walk in chapters
- 1At the end of the line
Here tram 60 ends: a small loop, a shelter, the village behind it. From here a single line runs into the city — the connection everything hangs on. You sit quietly, but never quite cut off.
- 2The village core
Rodaun was its own municipality until 1938, and you can tell: a church, a few old houses, an inn. Not a Vienna neighbourhood but a village the city caught up with — and one that kept its own slow rhythm.
- 3Up to the forest edge
The streets climb, the houses grow smaller, behind them the Vienna Woods begin. Live here and the forest is your neighbour, openness before your eyes — in return the way home is noticeably uphill.
- 4The quiet residential streets
Back through the village: gardens behind fences, hardly any traffic, plenty of calm. This is one of the residential worlds of the 60 — the village end. The same line runs on over the villas of Speising into the dense Gürtel; three very different ways to live, joined by one tram.
- 5Travel time as the price
Back at the stop. From here the 60 is reliable but not fast into the livelier parts of the city — the ride to the Westbahnhof area takes a while. That is the honest price of this calm: plenty of green and quiet, but a longer way to everything else.
What you notice on the way
Neighbourhoods along the way
The route metrics stay separate from the Living Score — each Grätzl keeps its own.
Method & honesty
The line is the shortest walking path over Vienna’s real pedestrian network (OpenStreetMap, ODbL) between hand-set waypoints through the village core — real streets, not estimated geometry. Distance and step count follow from the measured length (typical stride 0.75 m, as a range). Green share and street trees are read along the line from open data; proximity to main roads is a spatial proxy from the road class, not a measured noise value. “Three residential worlds on line 60” is a descriptive thesis from district/Grätzl data (village edge ↔ villas ↔ dense Gürtel), here only walked at the Rodaun end; travel times come from the timetable, not from experience. Deliberately NOT included: an elevation profile, real service frequencies, metre-by-metre shade.
Frequently asked
How long is the walk?
Around 2.2 km — depending on stride, about 2,700–3,100 steps. Pure walking time roughly 29 minutes, with a break in the village more like 44. The route climbs towards the forest edge.
How do you get from Rodaun into the city?
By tram 60, which terminates here and runs over Speising and Hietzing to the Westbahnhof area. “Almost in the centre” means that area, not the inner city — the ride takes a while, and that belongs honestly to it.
Why “three residential worlds”?
Because the same line 60 joins very different things: village Rodaun, the villa and garden areas around Speising and Hietzing, and the dense part of Rudolfsheim. This walk takes the quiet end; the other worlds sit on the same tram.