!!!Erlauf

River Erlauf, Erlaf (Illyrian "Erlape", Celtic "Arlape"), Lower 
Austria, southern tributary of the River Danube, 67 km long, 13.9 
m%%sup 3/%/sec flow volume (at Niederndorf). E. has its source on 
Zellerhut mountain at the border between Lower Austria and Styria 
("Grosse Erlauf") continues as the run-off of Lake Erlaufsee and 
breaks through the rock faces of Hintere Tormaeuer and Vordere 
Tormaeuer at the foot of the Oetscher mountain. The Tormaeuer gorges 
are similar to those of the Gesaeuse; the river flows through the 
eastern part of the Eisenwurzen region, where the valley is wider, 
passes Scheibbs (main town in the E. valley) and enters the Lower 
Austrian Alpine Foreland. Near Wieselburg it is joined by the "Kleine 
Erlauf" river and flows into the Danube near Poechlarn. Erlauf river 
drains a region of approximately 620 km%%sup 2/%. The 
charterhouse of Gaming, the nature park of the Oetscher/Tormaeuer 
mountains, the towns of Scheibbs and Purgstall are some of the sights 
worth visiting in this area.

!Literature
K. Bodi et al., Flussstudie Erlauf, ein 
Gewaessernutzungs- und Schutzkonzept, in: Oesterr. Wasserwirtschaft 
1993, 5/6.


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