The Triesting is a river of

Lower Austria Lower Austria ( , , abbreviated LA or NÖ) is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Major cities are Amstetten, Lower Austria, Amstetten, Krems an der Donau, Wiener Neustadt and Sankt Pölten, which ...

, in the southeastern part of the Vienna Woods. Its

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

is . The Triesing has a length of . It discharges into the smaller Schwechat at Achau and is part of the catchment area of the River Danube.

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 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".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: 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).

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