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Leitha, River, Lower Austria, 180 km long tributary of River Danube, rises from junction of River Schwarza and River Pitten near Lanzenkirchen (302 m); most parts are of average water quality, levels II- III. The River Leitha flows along the eastern border of the Vienna Basin, passes Wiener Neustadt (265 m), Bruck an der Leitha (157 m) and the Hundsheimer Berge Hills in the north; some parts of it form the border between Lower Austria and Burgenland; the river leaves Austrian territory north of Nickelsdorf (144 m) and empties into the Danube as the Lajta in Hungary. The average water flow amounts up to 8 m3/sec. near Nickelsdorf. The River Leitha was the border between the two parts of the Habsburg monarchy known as Cisleithania and Transleithania.