Erla (river)

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Erla
Erlabach in the municipality of St. Valentin

Erlabach in the municipality of St. Valentin

Data
location Austria , Lower Austria
River system Danube
Drain over Danube  → Black Sea
source near Behamberg,
48 ° 0 ′ 57 "  N , 14 ° 30 ′ 57"  E
Source height 581  m above sea level A.
muzzle at Wallsee in the Danube Coordinates: 48 ° 10 '14 "  N , 14 ° 42' 34"  E 48 ° 10 '14 "  N , 14 ° 42' 34"  E
Mouth height 228  m above sea level A.
Height difference 353 m
Bottom slope 10 ‰
length 35 km
Catchment area 178.2 km²
Small towns St. Valentin , Hague
Communities Haidershofen , Behamberg , Ernsthofen , St. Pantaleon-Erla , Strengberg , Mitterkirchen im Machland , Wallsee-Sindelburg

The Erla (also Erlabach ) is a river in the Lower Austrian Mostviertel .

location

The Erla rises about 20 km south of the Danube between Kleinraming and Behamberg , then flows north, where it passes St. Valentin and the town of Erla . Here in the municipality of St. Pantaleon-Erla it turns to the southeast and flows parallel to the Danube through its floodplains , before it flowed into the Danube in the municipality before. After the construction of the Wallsee-Mitterkirchen Danube power plant, it now continues to flow through the branch of the Danube that has been separated off and flows into the Danube further east at Wallsee from Markt Wallsee-Sindelburg .

Bedeutendster tributary is the from Haag coming Hague Bach .

meaning

The Erla was the western border of the margraviate of Margrave Leopold I , which stretched from the Erla into the Vienna Woods and was popularly called Ostarrichi .

Individual evidence

  1. BMLFUW (Hrsg.): Area directory of the river areas: Danube area from the Enns to the Leitha. In: Contributions to Austria's Hydrography Issue 62, Vienna 2014, p. 8. PDF download , accessed on July 8, 2018.