Triesting Explained

Triesting
Subdivision Type1:	Country
Subdivision Name1:	Austria
Subdivision Type2:	State
Subdivision Name2:	Lower Austria
Length:	63.5km (39.5miles)
Source1 Location:	East of the, northwest of Kaumberg in the Vienna Woods
Mouth Location:	Near Achau into the Schwechat
Progression:	Schwechat→

The Triesting is a river of Lower Austria, in the southeastern part of the Vienna Woods. Its drainage basin is .^[1]

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

• 1846^[2]
• 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".^{[3] [4]}

Sources

• Rieck, Walter (1957). Kulturgeographie des Triestingtales. Vienna, Univ., Diss.http://katzoom.onb.ac.at/DB2/nkn/m002/z005/h071/b1047089.gif

External links

• Water levels at Fahrafeld
• Water levels at Hirtenberg

Remarks

1. Web site: Flächenverzeichnis der Flussgebiete: Donaugebiet von der Enns bis zur Leitha. Beiträge zur Hydrografie Österreichs Heft 62. 125. December 2014.
2. Helene Schießl, Erwin Schindler: Berndorfer Gemeindechronik, herausgegeben aus Anlass 100 Jahre Stadt Berndorf. Ed.: Stadtgemeinde Berndorf. pp. 24ff (in German)
3. Walter Rieck: Kulturgeographie des Triestingtales. p. 150
4. 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).