Floridsdorf
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Floridsdorf is the 21st district
Districts of Vienna
The districts of Vienna are 23 named city sections of Vienna, Austria, which are also numbered for easy reference. For centuries, district boundaries have changed...

 of Vienna
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, Austria
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 .
Floridsdorf is located in the northern part of Vienna.

The District Office and the centre of Floridsdorf are located round Am Spitz, at the junction of Prager Straße (Prague
Prague
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 Street) and Brünner Straße (Brno
Brno
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 Street).

Since 2004, Floridsdorf has had its own tower: the Florido Tower.

The SCN (Shopping Center Nord) is the biggest shopping centre in Floridsdorf.

Parts of Floridsdorf were formerly villages.
For example, there are Stammersdorf, Strebersdorf and Leopoldau.
Because of this, Floridsdorf is mostly a very rural district, with many taverns selling homegrown wine (Heurige).

The first settlers are estimated to have come between 4000 and 2000 B.C. Judging from stone tools that have been found, they appeared to be hunters.

Around 500 BC Celtic people came, but were soon driven out by the Romans. For a long time it was uninhabited; it became a buffer zone
Buffer zone
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 between Rome and Germanic tribes.

Geography

Hills and waters

In the north of Floridsdorf, the area is dominated by the southern foothills of the Bisamberg
Bisamberg
Bisamberg is a town in the district of Korneuburg in Austria with a population of 4,001 according to the 2001 census. It is about 5 km north east of Vienna within the Weinviertel in Niederösterreich. Bisamberg takes up about 10.71 square kilometers, 24.43 percent of which are forest. The community...

 hill, as the terrain of the municipal district. While the summit of Bisamberg is already in Lower Austria, it is the Summit Falkenberg which is the highest point in Floridsdorf.

The Danube
Danube
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 forms the southwestern border district. A part of the New Danube
New Danube
The New Danube is a side channel on the eastern side of the Danube in Vienna, Austria. It was created to provide flood relief by containing excess water. The Donauinsel , made out of the removed material, separates the new waterway from the main channel of the river...

 and a section of the Danube Island are in Floridsdorf, while the water area immediately beyond the Danube island is in the Döbling
Döbling
Döbling is the 19th District in the city of Vienna, Austria . It is located on the north end from the central districts, north of the districts Alsergrund and Währing...

 district area. The Vienna Danube bridges to Floridsdorfer area (ranked in the direction of flow of the Danube) are: the Bridge Jedleseer, the North Bridge, the North Bridge, the Bridge Floridsdorfer, the North Bridge, the U6-Danube Bridge and Brigittenauer Bridge. In Floridsdorf is also the northern part of the Old Danube. In 1992, the Marchfeld channel was put into operation, which crosses the district area.

District parts

The district consists of seven formerly independent communities (as 7 whole subdistricts, plus parts of 2 others): Floridsdorf (community), Donaufeld, Großjedlersdorf, Jedlesee, Leopoldau, Stammersdorf, and Strebersdorf.

The eponymous district part Floridsdorf is also the smallest in area. The largest district forms part of Stammersdorf in the north of the district. At Stammersdorf, borders Strebersdorf and Großjedlersdorf, consisting of the two Katastralgemeinden Großjedlersdorf I and II consists Großjedlersdorf. East on the border at 22 District, subject to the Leopoldau and Donaufeld. Jedlesee in the west is composed of the same and Black Lackenau together. In addition to those full sub-districts, in Floridsdorf are small parts of Kagran and Kaisermühlen, with the great majority of those 2 in the district Donaustadt
Donaustadt
Donaustadt is the 22nd district of Vienna, Austria .Donaustadt is the eastern fourth of Vienna.- Geography :The Donaustadt district is in the northeast part of Vienna and is the largest of the districts in area, occupying about one-quarter of the Vienna city area, 102.24 km².It borders the...

.

A further breakdown of the district territory is in the 28 census-districts of the official statistics, in which the data for the municipality are combined. Although they are identical or nearly identical, at least designations as the corresponding Katastralgemeinden result, the Zählbezirke Donaufeld, wholesale Jedlersdorf, Old Jedlesee, New Jedlesee, Leopoldau, Schwarzlackenau, Stammer Streber village and village from each of those distinctive areas. At Flurnamen settlements and guided the Zählbezirke Hirschfeld, the northern border town, Großfeldsiedlung, gravel field settlement Siemensstrasse, Jochberg, Donaufelder gardener area Mühlschüttel, Bruck clusters and industrial land-Bahn triangle. At the military's largest automobile workshop of Austro-Hungarian Empire
Austria-Hungary
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 Zählbezirk reminiscent of the squad car, which brought 1911 in the urban gasworks census-district Leopoldau. The remaining Floridsdorfer Zählbezirke lead street names in the name. These are the census-districts: Stammersdorf-Brünner Straße, Leopoldauer Straße-Siemensstraße, Strebersdorf-Pragerstraße, Koloniestraße, Shuttleworthstraße, Floridsdorf-Brünnerstraße, Floridsdorf-Am Spitz und Donaufeld-Leopoldauer Straße.

History

The first settlements, in this area, were already there in the New Stone Age
Neolithic
The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...

 (about 4000 to 2000 BC). Stone hatchets and pot remains found, from that time, indicate that there were hunters who first settled in this area.

In the area of Leopoldau, weapons were made of bronze, and jewelry found suggests a settlement. Several items are in the District Museum.

Around 500 BC, Celts came in the territory of present-day Floridsdorf, but lost when the Romans
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

 came back to their influence. It has long been the territory of no-man's-land, a buffer zone between the Romans and English
England
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, and there were also repeated battles between the two peoples.

After the end of Roman rule, it drew Longobards, Avars
Eurasian Avars
The Eurasian Avars or Ancient Avars were a highly organized nomadic confederacy of mixed origins. They were ruled by a khagan, who was surrounded by a tight-knit entourage of nomad warriors, an organization characteristic of Turko-Mongol groups...

 and Slavs in the area. The Avars were later confirmed by Alexander the Great and so were defeated, turning Bayern into the country from the Magyars to be distributed. Around 1000 AD, the Babenberg
Babenberg
Originally from Bamberg in Franconia, now northern Bavaria, an apparent branch of the Babenbergs or Babenberger went on to rule Austria as counts of the march and dukes from 976–1248, before the rise of the house of Habsburg.-One or two families:...

 was in this area; again in 1014 and it was the first written mention of the district Floridsdorfer Jedlesee, then called Outcinesse (Sea of Uz).

For a long time, the Danube
Danube
The Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway....

 was crossed only by ferry
Ferry
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. In the year 1500, the first bridge was built. At the site of today's main Floridsdorfer water park, was the first bridge (Tabor Bridge) built over a little further, the Danube Kuhbrückl. At the junction of the main road to Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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 and Moravia
Moravia
Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...

, (the nickname) was the new settlement Floridsdorf.

Floridsdorf was first called "Am Spitz" and was later assigned to the Klosterneuburg Abbey. Floridus Leeb, abbot of the monastery, designated 1786 properties in 26 settler families. By industrialization, Floridsdorf, which originally was heavily dominated by agriculture, changed in a short time, so that on 8 May 1894 with the villages Donaufeld, Jedlesee and New Jedlersdorf for major Floridsdorf community was united. The Dampftramway and the Northwest Railway
Austrian Northwestern Railway
The Austrian Northwestern Railway was the name of a former railway company during the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy...

 have also contributed to industrialization. Today, a commemorative panel, in the station Floridsdorf, proclaims that on 23 November 1837 with the opening of the first section of the Emperor Ferdinand-Nordbahn between Floridsdorf and German-Wagram, the railway era began in Austria.

From the middle of the 19th century, there were also efforts to the Vienna reichsunmittelbar, to do so by the crown of Austria at the Enns
Lower Austria
Lower Austria is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna is not officially part of Lower Austria...

. In this case, Floridsdorf had been foreseen as the capital of Lower Austria.

In 1904, Floridsdorf had localities Jedlesee, Großjedlersdorf, Donaufeld, Leopoldau, Kagran, Hirschstetten, Stadlau and Aspern
Aspern
Aspern is part of Donaustadt, the 22nd district of Vienna.In 1904, the formerly independent village was incorporated into Vienna as part of the 21st district, Floridsdorf. Only in 1946 did it become part of the newly created 22nd district, Donaustadt. The area is known because of the Battle of...

.
Then in 1910, also incorporated was Strebersdorf (Vienna) into Vienna. Through the establishment of the new district Donaustadt
Donaustadt
Donaustadt is the 22nd district of Vienna, Austria .Donaustadt is the eastern fourth of Vienna.- Geography :The Donaustadt district is in the northeast part of Vienna and is the largest of the districts in area, occupying about one-quarter of the Vienna city area, 102.24 km².It borders the...

 in 1938, Floridsdorf lost Kagran, Stadlau, Hirschstetten, Aspern
Aspern
Aspern is part of Donaustadt, the 22nd district of Vienna.In 1904, the formerly independent village was incorporated into Vienna as part of the 21st district, Floridsdorf. Only in 1946 did it become part of the newly created 22nd district, Donaustadt. The area is known because of the Battle of...

 and Lobau
Lobau
The Lobau is a Vienna floodplain on the northern side of the Danube and partly in Großenzersdorf, Lower Austria. It has been part of the Danube-Auen National Park since 1996 and has been a protected area since 1978. It is used as a recreational area and is known as a site of nudism. There is...

. During the Oil Campaign of World War II
Oil Campaign of World War II
The Allied Oil Campaign of World War II was directed at facilities supplying Nazi Germany with petroleum, oil, and lubrication products...

, the Floridsdorf oil refinery and oil sidings were bombed by the Allies. In 1954, the borders of Lower
Lower
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 and Donaustadt
Donaustadt
Donaustadt is the 22nd district of Vienna, Austria .Donaustadt is the eastern fourth of Vienna.- Geography :The Donaustadt district is in the northeast part of Vienna and is the largest of the districts in area, occupying about one-quarter of the Vienna city area, 102.24 km².It borders the...

 were re-drawn and Stammersdorf incorporated.

As a consequence, there were four changes to the demarcation of the border district of Donaustadt. In 1964, the district border in the eastern Aderklaa road
and in the area of the pile in Bruck Donaufeld slightly delayed.

In 1995, a marginal adjustment in the field and Zehdengasse Eipeldauerstraße. over long distances changed the course of the Danube border town in 2002 and in the areas of Oscar-Grissemann Street, Josef Baumann Street, Old Danube, and Drygalskiweg Wagramer street.
Affected by these boundary changes were mainly traffic, and in Floridsdorf, the big sports in the street Eipeldauer was also added. In return, the District lost a larger share of the water area of the Old Danube to the Donaustadt
Donaustadt
Donaustadt is the 22nd district of Vienna, Austria .Donaustadt is the eastern fourth of Vienna.- Geography :The Donaustadt district is in the northeast part of Vienna and is the largest of the districts in area, occupying about one-quarter of the Vienna city area, 102.24 km².It borders the...

 District.

Population



Data from Statistik Austria http://www.statistik.at/blickgem/vz1/g92101.pdf

Population development

Today's district includes the area of Floridsdorf from 1869, which had, with its villages, only 12,022 inhabitants. With the city limits located near Vienna, the population increased rapidly and showed, up to the First World War, very high growth rates. In 1910, Floridsdorf already had 62,154 inhabitants, and its population since 1869 had more than quintupled. Since Floridsdorf after the First World War, had comparatively low population density, compared to other districts, the population rose more gradually. Apart from a brief decline in population around the Second World War, the district population has grown continuously, with the growth rates from the 1990s declined significantly. At the beginning of 2007, there were 137,186 people in Floridsdorf: the 21st District hosts the third largest population. With 3,086 inhabitants per km², Floridsdorf ranks, in terms of population density, only in the bottom quarter of the more than 20 Vienna municipal districts.

Population structure

In Floridsdorf lived, during 2005, significantly more children, but also a slightly higher number of people over 60 years than the average of Vienna. The number of children under 15 years was 16.2% higher than for the total area of Vienna (14.6%). The proportion of the population from 15 to 59 years was 61.4% (Vienna: 63.4%) well below the average, while the population Floridsdorfer especially in the age group of people 20 to 34 years of deficits in it. The proportion of people aged 60 years or more was 22.5% (Vienna: 22.0%) slightly above the average of Vienna. The gender distribution was in the district area in 2001 was 47.3% men and 52.7% women, the number of married people had a share of 43.0% compared to 41.2% above the average of Vienna.

Origin and language

The proportion of foreign district residents in 2006 was 11% (Vienna city-wide: 19.1%).
This was the fourth rank of a district of Vienna. As in the entire state, the foreign population growth in 2001, the proportion was 7.8%. The highest proportion of foreign residents in 2005 represented about 2.3% share of the district population as nationals from Serbia
Serbia
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 and Montenegro
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. Another 1.2% were Turkish
Turkey
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, 0.9% Polish
Poland
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 and 0.6% German
Germany
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 citizens. In 2001, a total of 15.4% of the district population was born in Austria. Nearly 3.0% expressed as a language Serbian
Serbian language
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, 2.3% Turkish
Turkish language
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 and 1.1% Croatian
Croatian language
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.

Religion

Floridsdorf has, with 53.9%, one of the highest populations of people with Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
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 faith in Vienna (Vienna city-wide: 49.2%). There are 16 districts with Roman Catholic parishes, the City Deanery 21 form. By contrast, the proportion of people with Islam
Islam
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ic faith is 4.9% and the Orthodox believers with strong 3.0% below the average. The proportion of Protestant
Evangelical Church
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 residents stood at 4.4% in the overall context of Vienna. 28.9% of the district population 2001 are not included religious community, but this is the highest value of a municipality of Vienna was. Further 4.9% of the population had no religion or another confession given.

Politics

District Directors from 1945
Franz Koch (SPÖ
SPO
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)
1945–1946
Franz Jonas
Franz Jonas
Franz Josef Jonas was an Austrian political figure. He served as the seventh President of Austria, between 1965 and 1974....

 (SPÖ)
1946–1948
Ernst Theumer (SPÖ) 1948–1959
Rudolf Hitzinger (SPÖ) 1959–1964
Otmar Emerling (SPÖ) 1964–1980
Kurt Landsmann (SPÖ) 1980–1994
Heinz Lehner (SPÖ) 1994–



Crest (coat of arms)

The coat of arms of Floridsdorf is six-part. On the shield, the coat of arms of the previously independent municipalities Floridsdorf, Jedlersdorf large, Jedlesee, Leopoldau, Stammer village, Strebersdorf merged.
The six parts of the coats of arms are as follows:
  • Floridsdorf: The coat of arms (center panel) shows a vase with three red flowers on green stalks between eight green leaves on a silver background.
  • Leopoldau: The upper left is a brown coat of arms clad right arm, five golden ears of grain, on a blue background.
  • Stammersdorf: The right, top coat of arms shows a deciduous tree and three coniferous trees on a green lawn, silver background.
  • Jedlesee: The bottom-left coat of arms is the golden dressed, laced with pearls and precious stones decorated, grace crowned image of the Virgin Mary Loretto with the child Jesus, surrounded by the red letters M and L, for "Maria Loretto" on a silver background.
  • Strebersdorf: The bottom-right coat of arms shows a red-roofed guard tower, with two round window openings and two red flags with a golden knob on the ridge in a green field with a blue background.
  • Gross Jedlersdorf: The bottom-middle coat of arms shows two crossed sacks/bags on a red background.

Notable residents

  • Hannes Androsch
    Hannes Androsch
    Johannes Androsch is an Austrian entrepreneur and consultant; a former Social Democrat top politician who served as an Austrian Minister of Finance from 1970 to 1981 and additionally as Vice Chancellor from 1976–1981; and a former banker who from 1981-1988 was the General Director of the...

  • Marko Arnautovic
    Marko Arnautovic
    Marko Arnautović is an Austrian footballer, who is playing for SV Werder Bremen.- Background :Arnautović was born in Floridsdorf, a district in the northern part of Vienna...

  • Franz Jonas
    Franz Jonas
    Franz Josef Jonas was an Austrian political figure. He served as the seventh President of Austria, between 1965 and 1974....

  • Andy Borg
    Andy Borg
    Andy Borg is an Austrian Schlager singer and TV presenter. He lives in the Passau area and has been constantly recording music since his debut album Adios Amor was released in 1982.-Albums:-External links:*...

  • Karl Markovics
    Karl Markovics
    Karl Markovics is an Austrian actor and film director.He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year...

  • Karl Nieschlag
  • Hermann Nitsch
    Hermann Nitsch
    Hermann Nitsch is an Austrian artist who works in experimental and multimedia modes.Born in Vienna, Nitsch received training in painting during the time he studied at the Wiener Graphische Lehr-und Versuchanstalt. He is called an "actionist" or a performance artist...

  • Peter Pacult
    Peter Pacult
    Peter Pacult is an Austrian former international football player who is now manager of RB Leipzig.-Club career:...

  • Peter Resetarits
  • Erika Pluhar
    Erika Pluhar
    Erika Pluhar is an actress, singer and author from Austria and was born on 28 February 1939 in Vienna.Erika Pluhar is the daughter of Anna and Dr Josef Pluhar. One of her sisters, Ingeborg G...

  • Toni Strobl
  • Louis Black
    Louis Black
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Important buildings

  • Many suburban settlements with gardens
  • Numerous large settlements
    • Großfeldsiedlung
    • Nordrandsiedlung
    • Siedlung Jedlesee
    • Bruckhaufen
    • Neu-Stammersdorf
    • Schlingerhof
    • Karl-Seitz-Hof
    • Rosa-Weber-Hof
    • Paul-Speiser-Hof
    • Franz-Koch-Hof (ugs. Klein-Manhattan)
  • Schools and other educational institutions
    • Religious School of Education campus in Vienna Vienna - Strebersdorf (including practice and practice Volksschule Hauptschule - Cooperative Middle School)
    • Vocational school for automotive technology, plumbing and Karosseure
    • Special school for severely handicapped children
    • Higher College for Tourism
    • Higher College for Economic Occupations
    • School of Animal Care Fund for the Promotion of Animal Training
    • School brothers Strebersdorf
    • Federal High School and Franklin Street Bundesrealgymnasium 21
    • Federal and Federal School Gymnasium Franklin Straße 26
    • Federal and Federal School Gymnasium Ödenburgerstraße
    • Federal and Federal School Gymnasium "Bertha von Suttner", training ship
    • Federal and Federal School Gymnasium "Ella Lingens Gymnasium" (formerly: Gerasdorf Street)
    • University of Vienna
      University of Vienna
      The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

       - Business Center (BWZ)
    • Veterinary Medical University of Vienna
    • Volkshochschule Floridsdorf

  • Churches
    • Church of the Order of Friars School Strebersdorf (Jean Baptiste de La Salle)
    • Pfarrkirche Queen Mary (Strebersdorf)
    • Donaufeld parish church
      Saint Leopold Church (Donaufeld)
      Saint Leopold's Church is the Roman Catholic parish church of Donaufeld in Floridsdorf, the 21st district of Vienna, Austria.Located at Kinzerplatz, it stands at a height of 96 m , which makes it the third tallest church in Vienna. Construction was completed in 1914...

    • Floridsdorfer St. Jakob
    • Großjedlersdorfer Parish Church of St. Charles Borromeo (small pilgrimage church Maria Taferl)
    • San Marco Polo Square
    • Pastoral station of St. Michael
    • Maria Loretto Church (Jedlesee)
    • Pfarrkirche Gartenstadt

  • Social Floridsdorf Medical Center - Hospital and Geriatric Center

Sights

  • Beethoven Memorial
  • Beethovenweg
  • Pfarrkirche Donaufeld (The bulky neo-early brick is the third highest church in Vienna and was, before the incorporation of Floridsdorf, planned to be the "Dom Niederösterreichs".)
  • The Vienna Danube Island
  • The Old Danube

Museum

The District Museum was founded in 1960 in Floridsdorf Mautner Schlössl (Prague Street) building. The district museum is devoted mainly to the emergence of the landscape left the Danube, the beginning of steam navigation, railway history and the history of the old places. The "Museum of Beschirrung and Besattelung, orthopedic and veterinary Hufbeschlag collects bone specimens, saddles, horse and beef dishes and the development of Hufbeschlags by the Romans to the present dar. In addition, the museum on the single ostrich saddle in the world. The "1 Fisheries Museum Vienna offers its visitors information about fishing in the changing times. The exhibition features rare specimens of native fish, aquariums, ancient writings and exhibits, fishing gear and fish-eating "animals. In Jedlesee, in the former estate of Countess Anna-Maria Erdody, a memorial to Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

 was established.

Choirs

The choir-group Harmony (exact name: Floridsdorfer Chorvereinigung "Harmony 1865"; founded: 1865) is a mixed choir, consisting of an average of 40 members. It meets regularly to the public, for example during the Festival-week or the Christmas season, always with the appropriate program for the season. From time to time, the choir travels, to Kraków, most recently, Rome or in Tuscany, and gives concerts or makes various worship musically.

Sports clubs

  • Sports Union Donaufeld
  • Leopoldau Sports Union

External links

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