Giessenbach (Danube)

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Giessenbach
Mouth of the Gießenbach near Grein

Mouth of the Gießenbach near Grein

Data
location District of Perg , Mühlviertel , Upper Austria
River system Danube
Drain over Danube  → Black Sea
source in St. Georgen am Walde (district of Ebenedt)
48 ° 22 ′ 49 ″  N , 14 ° 52 ′ 53 ″  E
Source height about  830  m
muzzle between Grein and St. Nikola in the Danube Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 1 ″  N , 14 ° 53 ′ 13 ″  E 48 ° 14 ′ 1 ″  N , 14 ° 53 ′ 13 ″  E
Mouth height about  230  m
Height difference about 600 m
Bottom slope about 29 ‰
length 20.9 km
Catchment area 65 km²
Small towns Grein
Communities Bad Kreuzen , Dimbach , Pabneukirchen , St. Georgen am Walde , St. Nikola an der Donau , Waldhausen im Strudengau

The Gießenbach is a stream that flows into the Danube in the east of the Perg im Strudengau district with a catchment area of ​​65 square kilometers.

course

The Gießenbach rises in St. Georgen am Walde in the Ebenedt district at around 830  m above sea level. A. as Vogelsammühlbach. This is the name of the river in the upper reaches of the confluence of the Riedersdorfmühlbach on the right-hand side after 7.4 km. The brook flows from north to south through several municipalities, forms or crosses the border between municipal areas several times in its course and finally flows at the border between Grein and St. Nikola an der Donau at the Danube island Wörth at about 230  m above sea level. A. in the Danube.

Gießenbach touches or flows through the following communities: St. Georgen am Walde, Pabneukirchen , Dimbach , Waldhausen im Strudengau , Bad Kreuzen , Grein and St. Nikola an der Donau.

Around two kilometers above (north) the mouth, the creek was buried in the distant past over a length of 100 meters by a landslide ( Stiller Stein , from which the Stillensteinklamm takes its name). There you can only hear the rustling of the water masses below.

nature

The Gießenbachtal lies in the Upper Austrian spatial units Danube Gorge and Side Valleys and Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland . The Haselböckbach, the Gassnerbach and the Blümelbach with the Leimlehnerbach flow into the Gießenbach or Vogelsammühlbach on the left and the Sagmüllerbach with the Riedersdorfmühlbach on the right.

The Gießenbach flows through natural wet meadows and several gorges, the most famous of which is the Stillenstein Gorge . The river pearl mussel , which is threatened with extinction, is a particular rarity in the Gießenbach .

economy

Eighteen mills were once in operation on the Gießenbach and its tributaries (for example the Gießenbachmühle, the Aumühle, the Klausmühle, the Grasmühle, the Sagmühle, the Hagenmühle, the Riedersdorfmühle, the Vogelsammühle). In the first half of the 19th century the brook was used for the failure flood (see also the main article Perger Schwemmplatz ). There are several small power plants.

A hiking trail has been running through the Stillenstein Gorge since the second half of the 19th century , which has been destroyed several times by flood disasters and has been part of the Donausteig since 2010 . The entrance to the Stillensteinklamm at the mouth of the Gießenbach is on the Danube Cycle Path .

Since 1909 the Gießenbachtal at the exit of the Stillensteinklamm at the confluence of the Gießenbach into the Danube has been crossed by the Danube embankment by means of a very high seven-arch viaduct .

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  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Room unit Danube Gorge and side valleys (PDF; 1.9 MB)
  3. ↑ Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland room unit (PDF; 1.1 MB)