Inzersdorf

Inzersdorf lies in the southern part of Vienna, now part of the 23rd district Liesing. The flat marshland around the Liesing River once held clay beds that fed 19th-century brickworks, leaving behind lakes where the pits were dug. Geologists recognise layers of Pleistocene rubble across most of the area, with Holocene deposits in the north and loam in the south and west. The village first appears in records from 1120 as Imicinesdorf, named after a settler called Imizi. After destruction in the 16th and 17th centuries, Maria Katharina von Kinsky brought new settlers and the Geyer von Osterburg family made the village a centre for Protestant life. Brick production boomed under Heinrich von Drasche-Wartinberg, whose factories turned out 100 million bricks by 1872. After the northern part was annexed to Favoriten, Inzersdorf turned toward Liesing and later became part of the 23rd district in 1954. Visitors walk through a public park that was once the palace garden of the 17th-century château. The classicistic St Nicholas’ Church, rebuilt between 1818 and 1820 after a fire, stands in the town centre. Nearby, the Maria-Theresien-Schlössel and Grünberger-Schlössl recall the village’s aristocratic past. The coat of arms shows three ears of grain rising from a heart, flanked by a golden lion and horse.