!!!Einser-Kanal

Einser-Kanal (Hungarian: Hanság foecsatorna), artificial 
water-channel south-east of  Lake Neusiedl, forming the border between 
Austria and Hungary over a distance of approximately 17 km. It 
was built by Hungary (30 km long, 4.8 m deep, 7-15 m 
wide; finished in 1895) to drain the swamps of Hanság ( Waasen) 
and as an outlet for Lake Neusiedl, which has no natural outlet. The 
level difference of the canal head between the Rivers Raab and Danube 
is very slight, so that if these two rivers flood, backwater is caused 
and the water runs back to the lake. Only northwesterly winds cause 
currents in the canal, but the lake still loses some 
million m%%sup 3/% water each year. When Burgenland was divided 
in 1918, Hungary kept the outlet of the Einser-Kanal and the new state 
border was set east of Pamhagen along the northern bank of the canal.


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