The
history of Vienna
dates back over 2000
years when a roman army
camp named "VINDOBONA"
was founded next to
the Danube River. The
Roman era ended when
Germanic tribes took
over the area in the
400s. After the Habsburg
family won the crown
of the Holy Roman Empire
in 1273, they made Vienna
their capital and it
developed into a city
of importance. Following
the defeat of Turkish
invasions in 1529 and
1683, Vienna blossomed
with its new-found security
into one of the great
capitals of Europe and
a center of Baroque
architecture. Vienna
recovered from WWII
in the 50s and 60s,
but without the construction
of many tall buildings.
The United Nations complex
of the mid-1970s was
one of the few major
high-rise developments
before the 1992 decision
of the city council
to create a new high-rise
district on the left
bank of the Danube,
the Donaucity. Along
with the fall of the
Iron Curtain, this initiated
a boom in modern and
tall architecture which
thus far has no end
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