!!!Bisamberg, Berg

Bisamberg Hill, Lower Austria, alt. 358 m, hill at the Northern 
edge of Vienna; steep slope southwards down to the River Danube, which 
here breaks through the Wiener Pforte, gap flanked by the Bisamberg 
and the Leopoldsberg hills on its other side. Geological continuation 
of the flysch zone in the Vienna woods north of the Danube. On the 
Bisamberg plateau, oak brushwood and xenophile microflora of Pannonian 
character. Its loess slopes are covered with vineyards. Until 1995, a 
medium wave broadcasting station of the Austrian broadcasting company 
(ORF) was situated on the mountain (aerial height: 265 m); since 
1997 the station "Radio 1476" has also been broadcasting from 
Bisamberg; transformer station; drinking water tank (60,000 
m%%sup 3/%) of the Vienna Water Board (Wiener Wasserwerke). - 
Archaeological finds from the Mesolithic and Neolithic ages (oldest 
evidence for copper working in Austria). Towards the end of the Late 
Iron Age, a Celtic settlement was situated on the Bisamberg.


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