The municipality is located in the Industrieviertel (i. e.: Industrial Quarter) section of Lower Austria at the western edge of the Vienna Basin some 30 kilometres south of Vienna. The river Piesting is flowing through the area of the municipality.
43.2 percent of its area are forested.
Municipality structure
The municipality is composed of two localities and cadastral communities, these being the villages of Steinabrückl and Wöllersdorf.
History
The old ordnance factory in the municipality was used as a concentration camp from 1933 until 1938.[citation needed]