Bruck Gate
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ' N , 16 ° 55' E
The valley in the Lower Austrian - Burgenland border area between the Leithagebirge in the southwest and the Hundsheimer Mountains in the northeast is called the Brucker Pforte .
Location and landscape
The Brucker Pforte consists of the Prellenkirchner Flur on the Lower Austrian, western side, and the Burgenland Parndorfer Platte in the east. The Brucker Pforte is traversed by the Leitha , which flows from the southern Vienna Basin into the Pannonian Plain . The most important place is the district capital Bruck an der Leitha , after which the Talung is called.
With the two other mountain breakthroughs, the Wiener Neustädter Pforte south and the Hungarian (Hainburger) Pforte near Bratislava, it forms the transition between the Alps and the Carpathian Mountains on the one hand and between the Vienna Basin and the Little Hungarian Plain (Kisalföld in Hungarian) on the other.
It is an old breakthrough valley of the original Danube . Originally the Danube flowed with the receding of the Pannon Lake via Mistelbach through the Weinviertel and in a large loop via Eisenstadt and Sopron ( Wiener Neustädter Pforte ), later here, and only then changed to the Hainburger Pforte. The dating of these events is unclear. The Leitha took over the Talung only secondarily.
In terms of traffic, the Bruck Gate is the most important of the three gate landscapes , as it is the widest of the passages.
The Brucker Pforte was strategically important until the recent past. Numerous fortifications, such as bunkers , road barriers, etc. a. built in as a precaution. In Bruckneudorf , a large military training area was also set up and blocking troops were stationed. It was only with the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Cold War that much of it became obsolete.
Today the A4 Ostautobahn and the Budapester Straße B10 lead from Lower Austria to Burgenland. As a railway line, the Vienna-Raaber Bahn runs through the gate.
The opening between the mountains creates a very windy area, which is also used by numerous wind turbines, including the Andau / Halbturn wind farm , one of the largest onshore wind farms in Europe.
In the eastern area of the Brucker Pforte there is also the Natura2000 area of the Parndorfer Platte, the Parndorfer Platte - Heideboden bird sanctuary .
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- Entry on Brucker Pforte in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- ↑ Mathias Jungwirth, Gertrud Haidvogl, Severin Hohensinner, Herwig Waidbacher, Gerald Zauner (eds.) Austrian Danube: Landscape - Fish - History Publishing Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (IHG), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), 2014, ISBN 9783900932206 , P. 51, col. 1 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ More detailed discussion of the reference Parndorfer Platte to Petronell-Prellenkirchner Terrasse: G. Wessely: Geologie der Hainburger Berge. In: Jahrbuch der Geologische Bundesanstalt , Vol. 104, 1961, Chapter 2. Quaternary Landscape Formation , p. 337 ff ( full article, pp. 273-349 , pdf, geologie.ac.at, there p. 65 ff).