!!!Kamp

Kamp River (kelt. "kambos" = crooked), northern tributary of the 
Danube in Lower Austria. The Kamp begins at Rappottenstein (alt. 
671 m) in the southwestern Waldviertel, at the confluence of the 
Kleiner Kamp and Grosser Kamp streams, it feeds the Ottenstein, Dobra 
und Thurnberg storage lakes east of Zwettl, turns to the south at 
Rosenburg (alt. 268 m), flowing to the west of the Manhartsberg 
Hill, where the valley widens towards the Tulln Basin, and joins the 
Danube south of Grafenwoerth (alt. 190 m). Above the mouth of the 
river, the mean rate of flow is 8 m%%sup 3/%/sec. In the southern 
Kamptal valley (Zoebing alt. 211 m, Langenlois alt. 219 m). 
Fruit and wine are cultivated. Zwettl monastery and the castles and 
ruins of Rappottenstein, Lichtenfels, Ottenstein, Dobra, Krumau, 
Schauenstein, Rosenburg, Gars und Schoenberg are all in the valley of 
the River Kamp; largest towns: Zwettl (alt. 518 m) and Gars am 
Kamp river (alt. 256 m).


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