DevÃn Gate
The Hainburger gate or (especially in Slovakia) the Theban gate ( slovak: Devínska brána ) and can also currently Bratislava Gate ( slovak: Bratislavská brána ), formerly Hungarian Gates (Latin Porta Hungarica ), is a short transverse valley of the Danube between the foothills of the Eastern Alps and the Small Carpathians - between the Hundsheimer mountain in Austria and the castle of Thebes or the Bratislava castle in Slovakia.
The current tightness is located near the border triangle of Austria - Slovakia -Hungary and has always been an important transportation hub. Here the route crosses along the Danube - the dominant power in Central Europe - the so-called Amber Road, which connects the Mediterranean with Northern Europe.
Strategic importance had Hainburger gate already in the Roman period and the subsequent mass migrations, where it was guarded by the various powers each. Such was already among the Celts a Wallburg on Brown Mountain. In the Middle Ages, fortified by the town of Hainburg and about enthroned Castle and Devin Castle was the defensive line. In recent history, it was a part of the Iron Curtain. Even today leads the state border in the river area of the Danube between Slovakia and Austria from east to west and extends from the March estuary to the north.
In this historic region, which is also climatically represents a transition between the alpine, Mediterranean and continental climate, since the Stone Age beside peaceful population movements also numerous battles took place, including 907, the Battle of Pressburg in which the Bavarian militia was almost completely destroyed by the Hungarians, and - about 20 km north at Dürnkrut - Jedenspeigen - the decisive battle between the troops of King Premysl Otakar of Bohemia and of the newly elected Roman-German King Rudolf I of Habsburg.
Coming from the Alps and the Danube wetlands in broad Vienna Basin ago, the river bed narrows to about 200 meters and flows at the foot of Hainburg Mountains ( steep slope of Hundsheimer mountain, 480 m) in a right turn at the cut bank of the Little Carpathians past ( Slovak Devinska Kobyla ( Thebener Kogel ), 514 m) and in the level of Bratislava. Of Moravia and the March Field Coming - - Between Hundsheimer and Thebner Kogel also the March empties into the Danube at Devin. In its lower course it forms the Border between Austria and Slovakia.
About 10 km south of the Hungarian Gate - beyond the Hainburg or Hundsheimer Mountains - is the historically also significant Brucker gate. Although it is much flatter, but represents the transition from Lower Austria and Vienna Basin in the Great Hungarian Plain dar. Culturally thus between German and Hungarian language area, and geologically between the Alps and Carpathians.
An architectural symbol of Hainburg Gate is the " Wienertor " the town of Hainburg, which was a traffic engineering bottleneck especially until the opening of Northeast motorway A6. The permanent exhibition is located there bears the title The Wienertor to Hainburg an der Donau.
- The Hainburger ( Thebener ) gate 1873 (recording sheets of the country's Recording)
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