Attersee-Mondsee basin

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The Attersee-Mondsee basin is one of 41 Upper Austrian spatial units and is located in the Salzkammergut .

location

The spatial unit comprises two sub-units, on the one hand the water areas of the large lakes and on the other hand the landscape with the tourist-dominated lake edge areas.

The total size of the Attersee-Mondsee basin is 111.93 km². The deepest area is at around 469  m above sea level. A. the Attersee . The highest elevations in the area are agricultural and forestry areas at around 570  m above sea level. A.

The following municipal areas are mainly located in the Attersee-Mondsee basin (starting in the west): Attersee , Nussdorf am Attersee , Unterach , Weyregg , Steinbach , Mondsee , St. Lorenz and Tiefgraben .

The room unit is surrounded by the following Upper Austria room units (clockwise, starting in the north): Vöckla-Ager-Hügelland , Traun and Atterseer Flysch Mountains , Salzkammergut Pre-Alps and the Mondsee Flysch Mountains .

Characteristic

Western part of the Attersee-Mondsee basin with the Mondsee and the Irrsee in the background
The Attersee seen from the balloon
Mondsee and Irrsee seen from the Schafberg
  • Basin landscape with Attersee, Mondsee and Irrsee , which are connected by rivers. Rivers outside of the localities are predominantly near-natural, but estuary areas are mostly heavily built-up.
  • Land use predominantly agricultural as grassland (little arable use) and as settlement area.
  • There are many tourist settlement centers near the shore and therefore mostly built very densely (Attersee and Mondsee), but in some cases also very close to nature. On the near-natural banks, reeds and large sedge (Irrsee and partly Mondsee) are striking. In addition, a strong urban sprawl characterizes the landscape.
  • There are only small forest areas, these are mostly managed as spruce forests , followed by beech and fir trees . Small-scale bank slope forests with beech, ash and maple can be found.
  • Few professional fishermen but a lot of angling due to the occurrence of pearl fish and sea ​​doves in Atter and Mondsee, but fish migration is severely impaired by many weirs.
  • Cultivated landscape only in the western part (around Irrsee and Mondsee) preserved over a large area (orchards, hedges , forms of agricultural settlement).
  • In particular, around the Irrsee large, nationally significant silting bogs with litter meadow use. The Irrseebecken is also an important meadow breeding bird area , especially for the curlew .
  • Very good water quality in the lakes.
  • Strong tourist use and infrastructure (swimming, camping, marinas).

literature

  • Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Nature Conservation Department (Ed.): Nature and Landscape / Guiding Principles for Upper Austria. Volume 12: Attersee-Mondsee basin spatial unit . Linz 2007 ( pdf [accessed December 3, 2015]).

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