Vindobona:
The
Settlers preferred the area around the Wienerwald, the Leopoldsberg, the
Bisamberg and the Wilhelminenberg. With the immigration of indo-german farmers
Kahlenberg, Simonsberg, Michaelerberg, Satzberg, Gemeindeberg and Rosenberg
were also colonised. The bronze-age inhabitants preferred the Danube-near areas
as their living space. With the incoming of the Illyrer in the later
ferrous-age the light settled areas expanded. In the 5th Century
before Christ the Celtics built fortifications, for example on the
Leopoldsberg. Around Jesus' birth The Romans built the military camp Vindobona
in a place, that was very important for their strategy. It was bordered by the
Ottakringer river in the north-west, by the Danube in the north and by a moat along the Rotenturmstraße in the east.
In the 1st Century 15,000 to 20,000 people lived in Vindobona.
Emperor Probus subvented the cultivation of wine in the 3rd Century.
The east of the Province Noricum went to the Huns and the invasive Vandals in
433. East- and Westgothics plundered and destroyed the villages. After the
retirement of the Romans the population decreased.