Wiener Neustädter Pforte

Wiener Neustädter Pforte Gap, Lower Austria/Burgenland, depression of 13 km width between the Leithagebirge mountains in the northeast and the Rosaliengebirge mountains in the south, watershed of the catchment area of the Wulka, River and Leitha, River; it connects the Vienna Basin with the Eisenstadt Basin and its sub-bituminous coal deposits at Zillingdorf-Neufeld. On the Burgenland side of the Wiener Neustädter Pforte, are Lakes Neufeldersee, Steinbrunnersee, Pötschingersee and Bauernsee. The Wiener Neustädter Pforte is an ancient traffic route, today in the form of a road connection between Vienna, Eisenstadt (federal road B 16, part of which has been turned into motorway A 3) and Sopron (Hungary). Municipalities in the Wiener Neustädter Pforte area include Wiener Neustadt (alt. 265 m), Hornstein (alt. 273 m) and Neufeld an der Leitha (alt. 231 m) in the northeast as well as Neudörfl (alt. 273 m) and Bad Sauerbrunn (alt. 292 m) in the southwest.