!!!Triesting

Triesting, River, Lower Austria, 60 km long, southwestern 
tributary of the River  Schwechat in the foothills of the northern 
Limestone Alps; it forms the southern boundary of the Vienna Woods. 
The River Triesting rises near Klammhoehe hill (618 m) to the 
northwest of Kaumberg, flows through a narrow wooded valley on its way 
to Hirtenberg (275 m), then turns to northwest into the Vienna 
Basin and flows into the Danube near Schwechat (163 m). At 
Hirtenberg the River Triesting has a mean flow rate of 
2.5 m%%sup 3/%/sec. Both a rail and a road route (from St. 
Poelten (271 m) to Leobersdorf (267 m)) go through the upper 
Triestingtal valley. Many industrial facilities: mechanical 
engineering, production of metal parts.


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