!!!Piesting

Piesting, River, Lower Austria, southwestern tributary of the River 
Fischa, rises as Kalter Gang (Klostertal Valley) north of Schneeberg 
Mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. Below the confluence of the 
rivers Kalter Gang, Laengapiesting and Steinapiesting at Gutenstein 
(alt. 481 m) the river is called Piesting. East of Pernitz (alt. 
430 m) it runs through the  Quarb Gorge, passes Markt Piesting 
(alt. 349 m) and Woellersdorf (alt. 315 m), in the Vienna 
Basin through Felixdorf (alt. 282 m), Sollenau (alt. 271 m) 
and Ebreichsdorf (alt. 202 m) and has its mouth near 
Gramatneusiedl (alt. 179 m). Southwest of Ebreichsdorf an arm of 
the Piesting river branches off as the Kalter Gang river and joins the 
River Schwechat; rate of flow at Woellersdorf 2.8 m%%sup 3/%/sec.


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