Styrian Salzkammergut

Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '  N , 13 ° 53'  E

Styrian Salzkammergut​

Austria

The Styrian Salzkammergut is the part of the Salzkammergut in Styria . It includes the Ausseerland and the Hinterberger Tal (also Hinterberg ).

Room division

The Styrian Salzkammergut extends from the Pötschenpass on the border with Upper Austria to the Klachauer Höhe on the border with the Ennstal and consists of the two small regions Ausseerland and Hinterberger Tal .

The Ausseerland and the Hinterberger Tal were economically and administratively closely linked for centuries. They are independent, but culturally closely related areas. Together they form the historically grown unit of the Styrian Salzkammergut.

Municipalities in the Styrian Salzkammergut

The Ausseer Land includes the municipalities of Altaussee , Bad Aussee and Grundlsee , the Hinterberger Tal the municipality of Bad Mitterndorf . Until the municipal structural reform in Styria in 2015, the Hinterberger Tal also had the independent municipalities of Pichl-Kainisch and Tauplitz . The town of Bad Aussee forms the center of the Ausseer Land and is known as a traditional health resort. The village of Mitterndorf is the center of the Hinterberger Valley and an important spa and winter sports resort ( Grimming-Therme , Tauplitzalm ski area ).

Styrian Salzkammergut - Ausseerland - Ausseerland-Salzkammergut

The terms Styrian Salzkammergut and Ausseerland are often used synonymously. The reason for the joint designation of the Styrian Salzkammergut as "Ausseerland" was the joint administrative unit Expositur Bad Aussee, which existed until 2011 and comprised five municipalities in the region (with the exception of Tauplitz ). Furthermore, the municipalities of the Styrian Salzkammergut are referred to in the Styrian spatial planning as the small region Bad Aussee . By 2014 six, then four communities also form the Ausseerland – Salzkammergut Tourist Association .

Ausseerland-Salzkammergut tourist region

Ausseerland – Salzkammergut
legal form	Community association
purpose	Regional interest group
Seat	Bad Aussee , Bahnhofstrasse 132
founding	2007 (new 2015)
Members	4 municipalities
Organization type	Tourism association
Website	ausseerland.salzkammergut.at

The Styrian Salzkammergut is marketed for tourism under the name Ausseerland-Salzkammergut . Today's Tourism Ausseerland-Salzkammergut by the Styrian Tourism Act 1992 (§ 4 para. 3) is composed of the four municipalities Altaussee, Bad Aussee, Grundlsee and Bad Mitterndorf together. It was founded by the originally six municipalities in March 2007, and redesigned on January 1st, 2015 as part of the municipal structural reform. All four member municipalities are tourism municipalities of local class  A.

This tourism association also forms one of the eight Styrian tourism regions , and one of ten individual associations behind the Salzkammergut umbrella brand , where they work in particular with the neighboring Inneres Salzkammergut region.

The association also formed one of the LEADER regions in the 2007-2013 period. For the following period, in which a higher population number is required, the Upper Ennstal mountain region is merged to form the Ennstal – Ausseerland LEADER region .

UNESCO world heritage and nature protection

Almost the entire Styrian Salzkammergut is under nature protection. The only exceptions are the core settlement areas around Bad and Altaussee (with the Hohen Radling ), the Tauplitzalm ski area ( but the lakes do), and an area southeast of Bad Mitterndorf.

In 1997, UNESCO acquired parts of the Dachstein Mountains (parts of the municipalities of Altaussee , Bad Aussee and Bad Mitterndorf ), together with parts of the municipalities of Gröbming , Haus im Ennstal and Ramsau am Dachstein , the inner Salzkammergut  - especially Hallstatt  - and the parts of the Filzmoos municipality Dachsteinstock declared a World Heritage Hallstatt – Dachstein / Salzkammergut  ( WHS 806 ). The border of the core zone (50.5 km² Styrian part) runs from the Gschütt Pass, the state border south to the Sarstein , east over the southern gorge walls of the Koppentraun around the Zinken , south-east to the Hochmühleck , south to Gschreiriedl , south-west to the Bramkogel , then has a protuberance at the Kemet Mountains (south to the Kumpfling and south-east to the Stoderalm ), then an indentation over Hirzberg and Napfenkofel , and from here the border towards the Dachstein summit . The buffer zone (120 km² Styrian part) forms an approximately one kilometer wide strip along the core zone. The area on the Dachstein is also designated as a European protected area and nature reserve Styrian Dachstein Plateau  ( FFH , AT2204000 / No. 19 , 7455 ha and NSa 18 , Lgbl. 106/2008, 7367 ha).

The Dead Mountains are also a European and nature reserve ( FFH / BSG Totes Gebirge mit Altausseer See , AT2243000 / No. 35 , 240 km² or Dead Mountains West and East , NSa 16/17 , Lgbl. 107 and 108/2008, 159 and 78 km²).

The rest of the Berglands include the landscape protection areas Salzkammergut – West on Sarstein, Salzkammergut – East on Dachstein and Warscheneck Group  ( LS14b, 14a, 15 , with 60, 362 and 70 km², respectively), the last two still encompassing the entire left Ennstal .

Here there are also some smaller nature reserves, Ödensee  ( FFH , AT2206000 / No. 20 , NSa 5 ), Rödschitz or Laasenmoor , Obersdorfer Moos , three moor areas (Bad Mitterndorf) and the Salza estuary in the Stein reservoir  ( NSc 15, 58, 89 and 17 ).

Web links

• ausseerland.at , official website of the holiday region, Ausseerland tourism association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhard Lamer: The Ausseer Land. History and culture of a landscape . Styria, Graz 1998, ISBN 3-222-12613-5 , pp. 13 f .
2. ↑ Tourism associations (individual associations and multi-community associations until December 31, 2014): ( Memento from June 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Table 50 multi-community TV (Section 4, Paragraph 3 - Associations) with 273 tourism communities. Status: October 2014 (xlsx, verwaltung.steiermark.at, accessed June 11, 2015).
3. ↑ Tourism associations (individual associations and multi-community associations from January 1, 2015): ( Memento from June 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Tables 36 multi-community TV (Section 4, Paragraph 3 - Associations) with 128 tourism communities. Status: January 1, 2015 (xlsx, verwaltung.steiermark.at, accessed June 11, 2015).
4. ↑ Ausseerland-Salzkammergut in Styria, Austria on steiermark.com.
5. ↑ LEADER Future Evening Ennstal - Ausseerland ( Memento from May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on leader-ennstal.at (accessed June 11, 2015).
6. ↑ 1997 Advisory Body Evaluation , UNESCO World Heritage Center (pdf, 1 MB)