Triesting

Triesting
	The Triesting near Berndorf (with St. Margaret's Church)
Location
Country	Austria
State	Lower Austria
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	East of the Klammhöhe, northwest of Kaumberg in the Vienna Woods
• coordinates	48°04′06″N 15°52′20″E
• elevation	618 m (AA)
Mouth
• location	Near Achau into the Schwechat
• coordinates	48°04′52″N 16°23′57″E
• elevation	172 m (AA)
Length	63.5 km (39.5 mi) [1]
Basin features
Progression	Schwechat→ Danube→ Black Sea
Landmarks	Small towns: Berndorf, Schwechat; Villages: Kaumberg, Altenmarkt, Weissenbach, Pottenstein, , Hirtenberg, Enzesfeld, Leobersdorf, Trumau, Münchendorf, Oberwaltersdorf;
Tributaries
• right	Further Bach

The Triesting is a river of Lower Austria, in the southeastern part of the Vienna Woods.

The Triesing has a length of 63 km (39 mi). It discharges into the smaller Schwechat at Achau and is part of the catchment area of the River Danube.

Floods

1846[2]
July 1882
May 1940
July 1944
July 1966
July 1991 (flood wave only in the upper reaches)
August 1997
June 2002

The floods of 1944 were the worst ever in the Triesting valley. On 4 July 1944, there were severe floods, following heavy cloudbursts over the upper Triesting valley, in the vicinity of the Schöpfl mountain and in the Further valley. The narrow neck of the valley above Pottenstein was blocked by driftwood and the Fahrafeld Basin turned into a dammed lake. The dam broke and floodwaters up to 2 metres high surged through the valley. In the whole valley 188 people lost their lives, "the majority being foreign workers".[3][A 1][2]

References

Niederösterreich Atlas (Lower Austria)
Helene Schießl, Erwin Schindler: Berndorfer Gemeindechronik, herausgegeben aus Anlass 100 Jahre Stadt Berndorf. Ed.: Stadtgemeinde Berndorf. pp. 24ff (in German)
Walter Rieck: Kulturgeographie des Triestingtales. p. 150

Sources

Rieck, Walter (1957). Kulturgeographie des Triestingtales. Vienna, Univ., Diss.

External links

Remarks

The lower Triesting valley, in particular, was a centre of the armaments industry, in which a considerable number of foreign workers were used to replace those liable for military wartime service. The majority of foreigners used for this work were slave labourers: POWs of various nationalities, "transferees" from the East and the Balkans, "which had been occupied during the war by the German Wehrmacht" (Rieck, p. 147).

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[AT-3_NÖA-1] Niederösterreich Atlas (Lower Austria)

[Schießl-2] Helene Schießl, Erwin Schindler: Berndorfer Gemeindechronik, herausgegeben aus Anlass 100 Jahre Stadt Berndorf. Ed.: Stadtgemeinde Berndorf. pp. 24ff (in German)

[3] Walter Rieck: Kulturgeographie des Triestingtales. p. 150

[4] The lower Triesting valley, in particular, was a centre of the armaments industry, in which a considerable number of foreign workers were used to replace those liable for military wartime service. The majority of foreigners used for this work were slave labourers: POWs of various nationalities, "transferees" from the East and the Balkans, "which had been occupied during the war by the German Wehrmacht" (Rieck, p. 147).