Leobersdorf is a town in the Baden district of

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History

Early settlements

First indices of settlement in the area date back to 3000 BC. Around 350 BC Celtic settlers found

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, from their word ''Tristis'', which means rushing or dangerous, derived the name for the river '' Triesting'' which flows through Leobersdorf. About 15 AD, Noricum was taken peacefully by the Romans. They most likely built a watchtower where the church is currently standing.

Name

Leobersdorf was first named in the ''Bayrische Traditionsbücher'' (Bavarian Traditionbooks) as Liubetsendorf around 1165 / 1174. This name possibly derives from the old-Slavic name ''Ljubac'' or the Celtic word Lewer or Loben, which means Border- or Gravehill. The name changed over time. In 1311 it was ''Lewbesdorf'', 1350 ''Leubesdorf'' and finally, 1588, ''Leobersdorf''.

Population

Famous people

Ing.

Viktor Kaplan Viktor Kaplan (27 November 1876 – 23 August 1934) was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Life Kaplan was born in Mürzzuschlag, Austria into a railroad worker's family. He graduated from high school in Vienna in 1895 ...

worked at the ''Leobersdorfer Maschinenfabrik'' from 1901 to 1903 and developed his idea of the

Kaplan turbine The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine which has adjustable blades. It was developed in 1913 by Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan, who combined automatically adjusted propeller blades with automatically adjusted wicket gates to ach ...

there.

References

External links

Leobersdorf @ MapQuest
Where to find Leobersdorf on a map
Leobersdorf.at

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for Leobersdorf (German only)
Kaplan turbine
(German)

(English)
Leobersdorfer Maschinenfabrik AG
Cities and towns in Baden District, Austria {{LowerAustria-geo-stub