Vindobona

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 5^th 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 1^st Century 15,000 to 20,000 people lived in Vindobona. Emperor Probus subvented the cultivation of wine in the 3^rd 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.