The Triesting is a river of

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, in the southeastern part of the

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. Its

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is . The Triesing has a length of . It discharges into the smaller

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and is part of the catchment area of the

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Floods

* 1846Helene Schießl, Erwin Schindler: ''Berndorfer Gemeindechronik, herausgegeben aus Anlass 100 Jahre Stadt Berndorf''. Ed.: Stadtgemeinde Berndorf. pp. 24ff (in German) * 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

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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".Walter Rieck: ''Kulturgeographie des Triestingtales.'' p. 150The 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:

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s of various nationalities, "transferees" from the East and the Balkans, "which had been occupied during the war by the German Wehrmacht" (Rieck, p. 147).

References

Sources

* Rieck, Walter (1957). ''Kulturgeographie des Triestingtales.'' Vienna, Univ., Dis

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Water levels at Fahrafeld

Remarks

Rivers of Lower Austria Rivers of Austria {{Austria-river-stub