Fischa

The Fischa in the field Mitterndorf / Fischa

Template: Infobox River / Obsolete

The Fischa is a river ( right tributary of the Danube ) in the eastern Lower Austria.

Running and landscape

It rises in the municipality of Haschendorf near Ebenfurth. They drained the so-called Wöllersdorfer alluvial fan, with groundwater from deep sources of the Vienna basin collects in two trenches. Thus, the Fischa is a water-rich river, despite its brevity. The only significant tributary, the Piesting, indeed puts on its way to its mouth in the Fischa a multi longer distance than this even, but does less water. The Fischa flows through the stone field and opens below Fischamend into the Danube.

The moist soil around the river causes the occurrence of numerous extensive meadows with scattered trees or groups of trees. In its lower reaches the Fischa of swamps surrounded. Just as the Schwechat she has a displaced mouth, which means they used on their final leg of an old branch of the Danube.

Flows into the Danube

About the Name

Not far from the Fischa there is the Warm Fischa flowing from Bad Fischau by Wiener Neustadt and flows Pott village in the Leitha. Therefore, the Fischa is referred to differentiate as well as Fischa - Dagnitz, with the word part Dagnitz refers to the no longer existing settlement Tagais in the area of ​​Haschendorf.

Hydrography and water use

Water level and temperature are uniform throughout the year, which makes it best suitable for industrial purposes. Thus, the significant Marienthal was spinning on the river. In Fischamend it has an average water volume of 7.5 cubic meters per second.