Zwentendorf

Infobox Ort in Österreich
Art = Marktgemeinde
Name = Zwentendorf an der Donau
Wappen =
lat_deg = 48 | lat_min = 20 | lat_sec = 33
lon_deg = 15 | lon_min = 54 | lon_sec = 50
Bundesland = Niederösterreich
Bezirk = Tulln
Höhe = 182
Fläche = 53.85
Einwohner = 3714
Stand = 2005-12-31
PLZ = 3435
Vorwahl = 02277
Kfz = TU
Gemeindekennziffer = 3 21 41
NUTS = AT126
Straße = Rathausplatz 4
Website = [http://www.zwentendorf.at www.zwentendorf.at]
Bürgermeister = Hermann Kühtreiber
Partei = SPÖ
Gemeinderatanzahl = 23
Gemeinderat = 15 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, 1 FPÖ
Wahljahr = 2005
image_photo = AKW Zwentendorf.jpg
image_caption = Nuclear power station at Zwentendorf

Zwentendorf an der Donau is a small market municipality in Lower Austria, Austria, with 3,280 inhabitants. It is located at coord|48|21|N|15|54|E|region:AT_type:city(3,280), in the Tullnerfeld on the southern bank of the Danube. The place attained celebrity as the site of the only Austrian nuclear power station, which was established here, but its start-up was prevented by a popular vote on November 5, 1978. A breath-thin majority of 50.47% voted against the start-up.

Instead, near Zwentendorf, were built:
* Danube power station Altenwörth (1976)
* the thermal power station Dürnrohr (1986)
* the HVDC-back-to-back station GK Dürnrohr on the area of the transformer station Dürnrohr (1983, 1996 shutdown) with a transmission rate of 550 megawatts during DC voltage of 145 kV. This plant served Dürnrohr until 1996 for the energy exchange with Czechoslovakia (from 1993 the Czech Republic) over a 380kV three-phase AC current leading from the HGÜ-Kurzkupplung to the transformer station Slavětice.

ee also

*Freda Meissner-Blau
*Mathilde Halla

External links

* [http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&ll=48.324528,15.92494&spn=0.025853,0.058537&om=0 Google Maps: HVDC-back-to-back station]