The kkStB 229 was a class of passenger 2-6-2 tank engines with the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways (k.k.

Because these class 129 locomotives proved a total success, the Austrian Southern Railway Company (Südbahn) wanted to procured similar engines, albeit with greater water and coal capacity.

After World War I, 69 engines were left with the Bundesbahnen Österreich (BBÖ), to which were added the eleven engines of the Südbahn, grouped into Class 229.5, and ten machines of the EWA, grouped into Class 229.8, when these companies were nationalised.

But the bulk of the engines (145 units) went in 1918 to the Czechoslovak State Railways, who designated them as ČSD Class 354.0.

After the Anschluss of Austria by the German Empire in 1938, the ninety 229s were classified by the Deutsche Reichsbahn as DRB Class 75 701 – 75 790.