!!!Tullnerfeld

Tullnerfeld Plain, Lower Austria, southern part of the Tulln Basin, a 
fertile alluvial plain on both banks of the Danube extending along the 
 Wachau Valley (Krems) and Korneuburg and along the northern fringe of 
the Vienna Woods, the alpine foreland and the  Wagram, part of the 
Molasse zone, with a wide wetland area of about 5 km on either 
side of the Danube; the Tullnerfeld Plain is 48 km long and 
14 km wide. The Tulln Basin is a wide plain along the Danube; it 
is a settled ground filled with tertiary sediments and rubbly deposits 
of the Danube and rivers of the alpine foreland. When the Danube was 
regulated new, fertile land was formed; as the rivers slowly cut into 
the gravel bed the terraces peculiar to this landscape were formed. 
There is intensive farming on these wide, fertile terraces (wheat, 
maize, potatoes and sugar beet). The main town is  Tulln an der Donau, 
the town of  Stockerau lies at the northeastern fringe of the Tulln 
Plain; the main power supply stations are the Donaukraftwerke near 
Altenwoerth and Greifenstein and the thermal power stations Duernrohr 
and Theiss. During the Second World War there was a large oil refinery 
in Moosbierbaum; the nuclear power station in Zwentendorf has never 
been put into operation. Tributaries of the Danube in the south are: 
the Rivers Traisen, Perschling, Grosse Tulln and Kleine Tulln, in the 
north Kamp, Schmida and Goellersbach. Two climatic zones meet in the 
Tulln plain: the Central European-oceanic climate and the dry, more 
continental type of climate.


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