The name derives from the quarries of nearby Ottakring, which were called Steinhöfe (English: stone yards). The area used to belong to Lower Austria, but was assigned to the 14th district of Vienna, Penzing, after the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938.[1]
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^ abChristiane Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer (1993), Penzing – Vom Wienfluß zum Wienerwald (in German), Korneuburg: Mohl Verlag, pp. 137–139, 144, ISBN3-900272-49-2
^Steinhof, Vienna - A center of Nazi medical crimes, website dedicated to the events between 1940 and 1945, viewed on July 11th, 2021
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