Enns (river) below the Enns"). Finally, it meets the Danube at Mauthausen and the city of Enns. The Enns is a typical wild water river and draws its water from an area of more than , which is the fifth-largest in Austria. The average outflow at its mouth is . The Anisian Age in the Triassic Period of geological time is named from Anisus, the Latin name of the river Enns. In the middle of the 19th century, canals began to be built along the between Weißenbach and the Gesäuse, in order to make use of the water for agriculture and forestry.
Lech (Vorarlberg) is in the winter, Lech nevertheless has much to offer the summer visitor, in terms of sporting, cultural, culinary and other activities. There are many premier hotels in Lech, as well as numerous top class restaurants. One former well-known visitor was the writer Ludwig Bemelmans (author of the Madeline books), whose 1949 novel "The Eye of God" was set in a fictionalised Lech. Lech has a number of points of cultural interest, including: There are numerous events happening in Lech. Lech is at the center of the thriller "An Exchange of Eagles" by Owen Sela, in which a group of