Electrician in Wieden, 1040 Wien.

At 1.8 km², Wieden is one of Vienna's smallest districts, and its buildings are old. Of roughly 1,500 buildings, about 940 date from before 1919, almost two thirds. Gründerzeit tenements shape the Freihausviertel around Schleifmühlgasse and the Elisabethviertel around St.-Elisabeth-Platz. Along Argentinierstraße there are also palais built between 1866 and 1895, and on Prinz-Eugen-Straße palais of the same kind now house the Turkish and Romanian embassies, among others. In the Second World War, 21 per cent of Wieden's buildings were destroyed outright. Between 1949 and 1965 the city built more than fifteen small Gemeindebau blocks, each with between 11 and 105 flats, and on Favoritenstraße the Bertha-von-Suttner-Hof, with around 360 flats, went up on the site of the Wieden hospital, which was pulled down in 1956.

In the tenements, the age of the installation decides the work. The consumer unit is often still in the hallway, with screw-in fuses and no RCD, and in a bel étage with ceilings over three metres high even a ceiling light becomes a job for a long ladder. In the small post-war Gemeindebau blocks in Schelleingasse, Rainergasse and Kolschitzkygasse it is mostly cookers, sockets and the inspection report for the flat, and before any work on the rising main we get clearance from Wiener Wohnen. Almost three in five people in Wieden rent on the private market, and more than 3,600 students live in the district, so an E-Befund is often needed when a flat is handed over. The call-out in Wieden is 69 €, as everywhere in Vienna, and an ordinary appointment usually works out within 48 hours.