Linz

Linz (lɪnts , ˈlɪnts; Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube , south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it received the title of European Capital of Culture. Linz is in the centre of Europe, lying on the Paris–Budapest west–east axis and the Malmö–Trieste north–south axis. The Danube is the main tourism and transport connection that runs through the city. Approximately 29.27% of the city's wide area is grassland. A further 17.95% are covered with forest. All the rest areas fall on water (6.39%), traffic areas, and land. Since January 2014 the city has been divided into 16 statistical districts: Before 2014 Linz was divided into nine districts and 36 statistical quarters. They were: Ebelsberg Innenstadt: Altstadtviertel, Rathausviertel, Kaplanhofviertel, Neustadtviertel, Volksgartenviertel, Römerberg-Margarethen Kleinmünchen: Kleinmünchen, Neue Welt, Scharlinz, Bergern, Neue Heimat, Wegscheid, Schörgenhub Lustenau: Makartviertel, Franckviertel, Hafenviertel Pöstlingberg: Pöstlingberg, Bachl-Gründberg St. Magdalena: St. Magdalena, Katzbach, Elmberg St. Peter Urfahr: Alt-Urfahr, Heilham, Hartmayrsiedlung, Harbachsiedlung, Karlhofsiedlung, Auberg Waldegg: Freinberg, Froschberg, Keferfeld, Bindermichl, Spallerhof, Wankmüllerhofviertel, Andreas-Hofer-Platz-Viertel The city was founded by the Romans, who called it Lentia. The name Linz was first recorded in AD 799. It was a provincial and local government city of the Holy Roman Empire, and an important trading point connecting several routes, on either side of the river Danube from the east to the west and Bohemia and Poland from north to the Balkans and Italy to the south. The city in which the Habsburg Emperor Friedrich III spent his last years, it was for a short period the most important city in the empire. It lost its status to Vienna and Prague after the death of the Emperor in 1493.