Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland

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The Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland is one of 41 Upper Austrian spatial units and is located in the Mühlviertel .

location

The room unit comprises large areas in the lower Mühlviertel . Around 55% of the area is in the Freistadt district , the remaining 45% in the Perg district .

The size of the Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland is about 737.03 km². The deepest area is around 285  m above sea level. A. in the Klammbachtal. The highest elevation in the area is the Schwarzberg near Weitersfelden at 996  m above sea level. A. as well as the Multerberg in Unter Weißenbach with 993  m above sea level. A.

The following municipal areas are mostly in the Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland (starting in the north): Bad Zell , Gutau , Kaltenberg , Königswiesen , Pierbach , Schönau , St. Leonhard , St. Oswald , Tragwein , Unterweißbach , Weitersfelden , Allerheiligen , Bad Kreuzen , Dimbach , Grein , Münzbach , Pabneukirchen , Rechberg , Saxen , Schwertberg , St. Georgen , St. Nikola , St. Thomas am bladder stone , Waldhausen , Windhaag near Perg .

The spatial unit is surrounded by the following Upper Austrian spatial units (clockwise, starting in the north): Freiwald and Weinsberger Wald , Danube Gorge and side valleys , southern Mühlviertel outskirts and Central Mühlviertel highlands .

Characteristic

Area of Bad Zell in the room unit
  • Heavily indented mountain and hill country of the Bohemian Massif , up to 1000 meters above sea level. The terrain is high with narrow valley sections, although plateau areas are rare. Remains of original stone block meadows can be found ("Steinreich").
  • High proportion of forest . Even distribution of small forests with spruce and pines dominating, the forests are preferably found on hilltops and their steeper slopes. Near-natural forests can only be found in scattered remnants in steeper slopes of the valleys (ravine forests, partly rich in lime trees, beech forests, in the southern part oak-hornbeam forests). Birch , aspen and pine are present in the smallest forest areas. New afforestation of agricultural areas that cannot be farmed by machine.
  • Richly branched water network with the main rivers Waldaist and Naarn . In addition, there are many small channels and meadow streams. Upper courses are often found as largely meadow streams, often also piped. Most of the flow stretches are close to nature. The valley sections alternate with stream meadows and gorges. In the middle and lower reaches there are distinctive gallery forests such as B. Gray alder forests in the narrow valley of the Aist.
  • Remarkable occurrence of freshwater pearl mussels in the Waldaist and Naarn as well as considerable occurrence of otters .
  • Many small and micro bogs or boggy areas, especially in the north-eastern area.
  • Small-scale structured agriculture with meadows, forests and fields. Partly well equipped with cultural landscape elements (groups of trees, hedges, stone walls, embankments, poor meadows and paths with central green strips). The orchards are small and rather rare. There are many species-rich (partly orchid-rich) dry and moist rough meadows in slopes and valleys (wet meadows, waterlogged springs, dry slopes, sandy grass lawns on road embankments), but the grassland area is mostly drained.
  • Small town centers, more likely to emigrate and therefore hardly any urban sprawl through single-family houses. The small farms are mainly to be found standing individually.

literature

  • Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Nature Conservation Department (Ed.): Nature and Landscape / Guiding Principles for Upper Austria. Volume 16: Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland spatial unit . Linz 2007 ( pdf [accessed January 12, 2018]).

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