Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl
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Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl is a municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the
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n state of
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Geography

The municipality is located in the ''
Industrieviertel ''Industrieviertel'' (; ; or ''Viertel unter dem Wienerwald'' (), is the southeastern quarter of the four quarters of Lower Austria (the northeast state of the 9 states in Austria). It is bordered on the north by Vienna and the , to the west by ...
'' (i. e.: Industrial Quarter) section of Lower Austria at the western edge of the
Vienna Basin The Vienna Basin (, , , Hungarian: ''Bécsi-medence'') is a geologically young tectonic burial basin and sedimentary basin in the seam area between the Alps, the Carpathians and the Pannonian Plain. Although it topographically separates the Al ...
some 30 kilometres south of
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. The river Piesting is flowing through the area of the municipality. 43.2 percent of its area are forested.


Municipality structure

The municipality is composed of two localities and cadastral communities, these being the villages of Steinabrückl and Wöllersdorf.


History

The old ordnance factory in the municipality was used as a concentration camp from 1933 until 1938.


Population


References

Cities and towns in Wiener Neustadt-Land District {{LowerAustria-geo-stub