Mostviertel (English: Must Quarter) is the southwestern of the four quarters of Lower Austria. It is bordered on the north by the Danube and to the south and west by the state borders of Styria and Upper Austria respectively. The Wienerwald forms the natural border to the east and gives the quarter its second name: The Quarter Over the Wienerwald. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Must is the juice of freshly pressed grapes, prior to fermentation into wine. ... Map of Lower Austria showing districts and the four quarters (Waldviertel in green, Weinviertel in red, Mostviertel in yellow and Industrieviertel in blue) Lower Austria (de: Niederösterreich) is one of the nine states or Länder in Austria. ... The Danube (German: , Slovak: Dunaj, Hungarian: , Croatian: Dunav, Serbian: Дунав/Dunav, Bulgarian: Дунав, Romanian: , Ukrainian: , Latin: Danuvius) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ... Styria (Steiermark in German, Štajerska in Slovenian) can refer to: Styria - a federal state of Austria Styria - an informal province in Slovenia Styria - a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire and crownland of Austria-Hungary This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise... Upper Austria (Ober sterreich) is one of the nine federal states or Bundesl nder of Austria. ... Wienerwald near Breitenfurt The Wienerwald (English: Vienna Woods) is a wooded promontory of the Alps in eastern Lower Austria, located at the border between the Mostviertel and the Industrieviertel, two of the four quarters of Lower Austria. ...

The name Mostviertel comes from the apple and pear must made there. The lands between the Rivers Ybbs and Enns posesses the necessary conditions for growing fruit trees and forms the heartland of the must industry. Typical for the Mostviertel are vast meadows of mixed orchards surrounding a farmhouse, in the center of which is usually a square court yard, and the lightly rolling foothills of the Alps. It has been suggested that Nutritional information about the apple be merged into this article or section. ... Species About 30 species, including: Pyrus amygdaliformis Pyrus austriaca Pyrus balansae Pyrus betulifolia Pyrus bourgaeana Pyrus bretschneideri Pyrus calleryana Pyrus caucasica Pyrus communis Pyrus cordata Pyrus cossonii Pyrus elaeagrifolia Pyrus fauriei Pyrus kawakamii Pyrus korshinskyi Pyrus lindleyi Pyrus nivalis Pyrus pashia Pyrus persica Pyrus phaeocarpa Pyrus pyraster Pyrus pyrifolia Pyrus... Ybbs is a city in Austria. ... Enns Length 254 km Elevation of the source  ? m Average discharge 201 m³/s Area watershed 6000 km² Origin Radstädter Tauern (mountains) Mouth Danube at Mauthausen Basin countries Austria The Enns is a southern tributary of the Danube River and 254 km long. ... An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production. ... Other uses: Foothills are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevated land at the base of a mountain range. ... The West face of the Petit Dru above the Chamonix valley near the Mer de Glace. ...

Business and Industry

Economy

The economy of Mostviertel is still mainly based in iron and steel, as well as in forestry. In earlier times, when iron ore was still mined at Erzberg, the work was done in hammer mills; today the steel millstake the half-finished product from the blast furnaces of Linz and Donawitz and turn it into blades for machines. In the Mostviertel, there is one large sawmill, as well as many small one, which process the wood taken from the forests. However, most of the economy is made up of small and middle-sized operations. General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ... The old steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ... This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production. ... A blast furnace is a type of furnace for smelting whereby the combustion material and ore are supplied with air from the bottom of the chamber such that the chemical reaction does not take place only at the surface. ... Map of Austria, locating Linz Linz is a city and Statutarstadt in northeast Austria, on the Danube river. ... Leoben is a city in Styria, in central Austria, located on the Mur river. ... This article or section should include material from Saw mill A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards. ...

The Mostbirne (Must Pear), a symbol of the Mostviertel

Must

For many years, must has been held in the greatest cultural importance. Today it is seen as an identifying characteristic. Most of this years must is put into homemade meals, pastries, schnaps, and other cookery. In part, the variety of musts is large: there is a clear difference between apple must and pear must, but also a common form that is a mixture of the two. Must is the juice of freshly pressed grapes, prior to fermentation into wine. ... Schnapps is a type of distilled beverage. ... Apfelwein Apfelwein (in english: apple wine) is the German form of cider, produced from apples. ...

Geography

The Mostviertel is made up of the following districts:

• Amstetten
• Waidhofen an der Ybbs
• Scheibbs
• Melk south of the Danube
• Lilienfeld
• Tulln south of the Danube

The City of St. Pölten and St. Pölten-Land

Waidhofen an der Ybbs is an independent city (Statutarstadt) in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. ... The district Melk west the lower-Austrian state capital St. ... The Danube (German: , Slovak: Dunaj, Hungarian: , Croatian: Dunav, Serbian: Дунав/Dunav, Bulgarian: Дунав, Romanian: , Ukrainian: , Latin: Danuvius) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ... St. ...

References

• The information in this article is based on that in its German equivalent.

External links

• ((German)) Mostviertel Dialct
• ((German)) Mostviertel
• ((German)) Moststraße