!!!Donauinsel

Donauinsel, Vienna, island recreation area enclosed by the River 
Danube and by the New Danube (swimming, surfing, rowing, cycling, ball 
games, etc.), 21 km long and up to 250 m wide; in a 
south-easterly direction it extends from the intake structure at 
Langenzersdorf (Lower Austria) to where the New Danube joins the main 
stream of the Danube near the Lobau oil transshipping port. In 1972 
digging started on the former flood plains for the New Danube (flood 
protection basin), which is about 200 m wide today; in 1987 work 
on the Donauinsel was finished. The "Copa Kagrana" beach near the 
Vienna International Centre has numerous restaurants and leisure 
facilities.

!Literature
Magistrat der Stadt Wien (ed.), Schwerpunkte der 
Stadtentwicklung Wiens seit 1945, 1991; B. Domany, O. Schwetz and G. 
Seidel, Planung und Gestaltung des Donaubereiches, 1981.


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