Stift Melk is one of the most beautiful baroque ensembles in Europe. Excitingly designed museum rooms, magnificent rooms such as the marble hall and library, an unforgettable view of the Danube valley and the high Baroque collegiate church await visitors. The Stiftspark invites you to relax from May to October.
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on the old Danube
The Donau City is a newly built in 1996 district in the 22nd district of Vienna, Donaustadt. It is located directly next to the Reichsbrücke bridge and is the next district next to the city center on the left bank of the Danube.
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In Vienna the Danube was practically completely unregulated until 1870 and looked for its own riverbed. Although Hans von Gasteiger had developed the first plans to regulate the Danube as early as 1555, only the branch closest to the city center, now known as the Danube Canal, in the Prater floodplain was opened in the 1830s Years straightened.
During flooding, the unregulated current particularly endangered villages such as Jedlesee, Floridsdorf and Stadlau in the area of a 5 km long Donauau to the left (north) of today's main bed.
There were repeated severe flood damage along the Danube. After the Leopoldstadt was badly flooded in 1744, the sovereign Maria Theresa spoke out in favor of flood protection measures, which ultimately did not take place. In the years 1776 to 1785, the "Cameral engineer" Johann Sigismund Hubert built a protective dam in the Floridsdorf area, which was supposed to prevent floods from penetrating the Marchfeld, but did not withstand the next flood in 1787. Today's Hubertusdamm is reminiscent of the engineer Hubert.
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