Apartment Building Fröhlichgasse

After disbandment of the Jesuit order, Unterliesing ended up initially with the Duke of Starhemberg and was ultimately acquired by Emperor Joseph XI's highly esteemed Provost of the Dorotheestift. Hardly ten years later, the community hall was moved to today's Breitenfurter Straße. Up to that time, it had been on today's Fröhlichgasse (corner of Karl-Sarg-Gasse) and also housed the community guest house at that time.

At the end of the 18th century, a thorough structural change began to stand out in Liesing; the first attempts at industrial production were registered in the town. Businesses in the trades were promoted.

A row of new houses were built at the foot of the Steinmaßl (today's Breitenfurter Straße between Dirmhirngasse and the brewery), and factories set-up business along the Liesingbach. The first one was the Haiden Mill spinning factory in Unterliesing. Factories producing matches, soap and glycerine followed and last but not least, the Liesing brewery that poured its first beer in March 1839.

Today, the former regulation of the Liesingbach creek is currently being demolished in part, beginning approximately at the Vienna city limits to its estuary in the Schwechat River. The creek is also being populated with river fauna to make an improvement to the quality of water.