!!!Wiener Neustädter Pforte

Wiener Neustaedter Pforte Gap, Lower Austria/Burgenland, depression of 
13 km width between the Leithagebirge mountains in the northeast and 
the Rosaliengebirge mountains in the south, watershed of the catchment 
area of the  Wulka, River and  Leitha, River; it connects the Vienna 
Basin with the Eisenstadt Basin and its sub-bituminous coal deposits 
at Zillingdorf-Neufeld. On the Burgenland side of the Wiener 
Neustaedter Pforte, are Lakes Neufeldersee, Steinbrunnersee, 
Poetschingersee and Bauernsee. The Wiener Neustaedter Pforte is an 
ancient traffic route, today in the form of a road connection between 
Vienna, Eisenstadt (federal road B 16, part of which has been turned 
into motorway A 3) and Sopron (Hungary). Municipalities in the Wiener 
Neustaedter Pforte area include Wiener Neustadt (alt. 265 m), 
Hornstein (alt. 273 m) and Neufeld an der Leitha (alt. 
231 m) in the northeast as well as Neudoerfl (alt. 273 m) 
and Bad Sauerbrunn (alt. 292 m) in the southwest.


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