Pitten (river)

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Pitten
The Pitten shortly before its confluence with the Schwarza

The Pitten shortly before its confluence with the Schwarza

Data
location Lower Austria
River system Danube
Drain over Leitha  → Danube  → Black Sea
source Wanghof (confluence of Feistritzbach and Großer Pestingbach )
47 ° 35 ′ 12 ″  N , 16 ° 6 ′ 1 ″  E
Source height approx.  435  m above sea level A.
muzzle From Haderswörth it forms the Leitha coordinates together with the Schwarza : 47 ° 44 '6 "  N , 16 ° 13' 29"  E 47 ° 44 '6 "  N , 16 ° 13' 29"  E
Mouth height approx.  300  m above sea level A.
Height difference approx. 135 m
Bottom slope approx. 5.9 ‰
length 23 km
Catchment area 412.7 km²
Drain MQ
 3.2 m³ / s
Left tributaries Feistritzbach
Right tributaries Great Pestingbach
Communities Aspang market , Edlitz , Grimmenstein , Warth , Scheiblingkirchen-Thernberg , Seebenstein , Pitten , Bad Erlach

The Pitten in southeastern Lower Austria is one of the two source rivers of the Leitha . Their source streams arise in the change area . The Pitten begins near the Wanghof with the union of the Great Pestingbach with the Feistritzbach . At Seebenstein, the river forms part of the Seebenstein-Türkensturz Nature Park .

The Pitten flows through the Bucklige Welt in the Pittental and unites in Haderswörth (district of Lanzenkirchen ) with the Schwarza to Leitha. The Pitten has an average flow rate of 3.2 m³ / s at the Warth measuring point .

Despite the normally low flow rate, the Pitten regularly causes dangerous floods and flooding due to its large catchment area. The record value was recorded in the Warth measuring point on August 7, 1999 with a flow rate of 142 m³ / s and a water level of 318 cm. Further floods were last on June 27, 1954 (D: 110 m³ / s - W: 270 cm), July 21, 1965 (D: 110 m³ / s - W: 270 cm), October 6, 1982 (D: 109 m³ / s - W: 291 cm), July 2, 1975 (D: 105 m³ / s - W: 294 cm).

geography

Main right-hand feeder:

  • Schlattenbach
  • Edlitzbach
  • Great Pestingbach

Main feeder on the left:

  • Hassbach
  • Feistritzbach

Web links

Commons : Pitten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BMLFUW (ed.) : List of areas of the river areas: Leitha, Rabnitz and Raab areas. In: Contributions to Austria's hydrography, issue No. 63, Vienna 2014, pp. 18/29. PDF download , accessed July 7, 2018.