Persenbeug-Gottsdorf

• Name — Persenbeug-Gottsdorf • Image Skyline — Persenbeug seen from Ybbs.jpg • Pushpin Map — Austria • Pushpin Mapsize — 270 • Pushpin Map Caption — Location within Austria • Map Caption — Location within Melk district • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Austria • Subdivision Type1 — State • Subdivision Name1 — Lower Austria • Subdivision Type2 — District • Subdivision Name2 — Melk • Parts Style — para • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Manfred Mitmasser • Area Footnotes — area_footnotes • Area Total Km2 — area_total_km2 • Elevation M — 230 • Population As Of — population_as_of • Population Footnotes — population_footnotes • Population Total — population_total • Population Density Km2 — auto • Timezone — CET • Timezone Dst — CEST • Utc Offset — +1 • Utc Offset Dst — +2 • Postal Code Type — Postal code • Postal Code — 3680 • Area Code Type — Area code • Area Code — 07412 Persenbeug-Gottsdorf is a town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria on the left bank of the river Danube.

The municipality has the following subdivisions: • Gottsdorf • Hagsdorf • Metzling • Persenbeug

The Castle of Persenbeug, one of few private properties of the Habsburgian descendants. The Persenbeug-Ybbs power station, being the first Austrian Danube spillway dam, built in 1954–1959. Found on river km 2060 and serving also as a road bridge, it has now 7 turbines and there are guided tours (every afternoon, in German only). The adjacent lock with two chambers is part of the international Danube waterway. The Danube cycle path, the tourist Eisenwurzenweg and Jakobsweg are also crossing the Danube via the dam.

• Charles I of Austria (1887 – 1922), Emperor of Austria & King of Hungary, born in Persenbeug Castle