Three Sentences on Haynau

IN HUNGARIAN

True, it has nothing to do with that Haynau, born in Kassel, Germany, but there was an island of that name on the Austrian section of the Danube, namely west of the castle of Wallsee, roughly opposite Mitterau/Ledererhaufen, which was nominated in the 2023 Danube Island of the Year vote.

Haynau on the Danube (mapire.eu)

Now that the 150 years have passed and it is safe to write about this island, which originally belonged to Upper Austria, it is worth mentioning first that Haynau (also known as Hain Au, or, in English, a Danubian sandbank with groves) is, like many of its Austrian Au counterparts, a young landform, because, like the Gemenc region in Hungary, islands and reefs on this originally braided stretch of river were very often born, disappeared or transformed.

Haynau was formerly part of a larger river bend, Grünau, in the south, and only later became an 'independent' island, sometime in the 1870s, as it first appears on the sections of the 3rd military survey, while its present form as a tied peninsula is due to the Wallsee-Mitterkirchen hydroelectric power station, built between 1965 and 1968, which eventually connected it to the Lower Austrian riverside.