New Danube New Danube The New Danube (German Neue Donau) is a side channel built in 1972–88 on the eastern side of the Danube in Vienna, Austria. It was created to provide flood relief by containing excess water. The Donauinsel (Danube Island), made out of the removed material, separates the new waterway from the main channel of the river. The project was referred to by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) as "the first truly multipurpose fully sustainable flood protection scheme." The New Danube flows parallel to the river for approximately through the Vienna metropolitan area. It diverges from the main
Danube Hills even exclusively restricted to this area which covered 376 km², which only covered the higher parts of the Vorderer Forest. It became major unit 405 in the natural region major unit group, the Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest (40). English sources variously use the names Vorderer Forest, Danube Hills, Vorderer Wald, or Anterior Bavarian Forest. Regardless of this, the part designated as the "Falkensteiner Vorwald" in regional studies is also called the "Vorderer Bayerischer Wald" in German sources used for tourism purposes. However, the following description is based on the regional structure. The natural region of the Danube Hills is only 8