Triesting

Triesting

The Triesting near Berndorf (with St. Margaret's Church)
Location	Lower Austria, Austria
Length	60 km
Source	East of the Klammhöhe, northwest of Kaumberg in the Vienna Woods 48°04′06″N 15°52′20″E / 48.06833°N 15.87222°ECoordinates: 48°04′06″N 15°52′20″E / 48.06833°N 15.87222°E
Source height	618 m (AA)
Mouth	Near Achau into the Schwechat 48°04′52″N 16°23′57″E / 48.08111°N 16.39917°E
Mouth height	172 m (AA)
Descent	446 m
Basin	Danube
Right tributaries	Further Bach
Small towns	Berndorf, Schwechat
Villages	Kaumberg, Altenmarkt, Weissenbach, Pottenstein, , Hirtenberg, Enzesfeld, Leobersdorf, Trumau, Münchendorf, Oberwaltersdorf

The Triesting is a river in the southeastern part of the Vienna Woods. It discharges into the smaller Schwechat at Achau and is part of the catchment area of the River Danube. It has a length of 60 km.

Floods

• 1846^[1]
• 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".^{[2][A 1][1]}

References

1. Helene Schießl, Erwin Schindler: Berndorfer Gemeindechronik, herausgegeben aus Anlass 100 Jahre Stadt Berndorf. Hrsg: Stadtgemeinde Berndorf. pp. 24ff
2. Walter Rieck: Kulturgeographie des Triestingtales. p. 150

Sources

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

External links

• Water levels at Fahrafeld
• Water levels at Hirtenberg

Remarks

1. 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).