page_title: Leitha
section_title: Course
hierarchical_section_title: Leitha / Course
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hinweistafel am Ursprung der Leitha in Haderswörth, Gde. Lanzenkirchen English: Tablet at the origin of the river Leitha at Haderswoerth, municipality Lanzenkirchen
context_page_description: The Leitha is a river in Austria and Hungary, a right tributary of the Danube. It is 120.8 km long.
context_section_description: The Leitha rises in Lower Austria at the confluence of its two headstreams, the Schwarza, discharging the Schneeberg, Rax and Schneealpe ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps, and the Pitten. Between Ebenfurth and Leithaprodersdorf, and between Bruck an der Leitha and Gattendorf, the Leitha forms part of the border between the Austrian states of Lower Austria and Burgenland. East of Nickelsdorf, the river passes into Hungary, where it flows into the Moson arm of the Danube west of Szigetköz Island near Mosonmagyaróvár. Important towns on its course are Wiener Neustadt, Bruck and Mosonmagyaróvár.
  Large amounts of the Schwarza headstream waters are diverted to supply the Wiener Neustadt Canal and the drinking water supply of Vienna. Furthermore, several canals diverge from the Leitha, feeding spinning companies in the past, today small hydroelectric power plants. Between Seibersdorf and Hof am Leithaberge, most of the water in the Leitha is removed for this purpose. From there on, the Leitha usually runs dry, unless its flow further upstream is abnormally high. Downriver from Katzelsdorf the river bed is almost completely dry as well.
caption: Plaque at Leitha origin
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