Bohemian Forest (room unit)

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The Bohemian Forest spatial unit is one of 41 Upper Austrian spatial units and is located in the northern part of the Mühlviertel .

location

The room unit consists of three spatially separated sub-areas in the Rohrbach and Urfahr-Umgebung districts . The Upper Bohemian Forest is the core area and extends over 20 kilometers in length and around five kilometers in width. The Hinterwald is the smallest part and Sternwald the easternmost part of the territories.

The size of the Bohemian Forest spatial unit is about 112.43 square kilometers. The area includes the entire Austrian part of the Bohemian Forest , which makes up around eight percent of the total natural area. The other parts are in Germany and the Czech Republic . The deepest area is around 800  m above sea level. A. at the foot of the Sternstein near Bad Leonfelden. The highest point in the area is the Plöckenstein at 1378  m above sea level. A.

The following municipal areas are largely or entirely in the Bohemian Forest (starting in the west): Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald , Klaffer am Hochficht , Ulrichsberg , Aigen-Schlägl , Afiesl , Schönegg , Vorderweißbach and Bad Leonfelden .

The spatial unit is surrounded by the following Upper Austrian spatial units (clockwise, starting in the west): Southern Bohemian Forest foothills and Leonfeldner highlands .

Characteristic

  • Gently undulating low mountain range in the highest elevations of the Mühlviertel and south-eastern foothills of the Bavarian and Czech Bohemian Forest.
  • Commercial forest with predominantly spruce , small-scale beech forests and maple - ash forests can be found. Spruce forests over 1100 meters above sea level are partly very close to nature. For about 40 years, near-natural forest management ( plenter management , natural regeneration ) has been taking place, whereby only the southern slopes are used, creating a dense network of forest roads. Ozone damage and severe bark beetle problem, especially in the triangle.
  • Occasional occurrence of lynx , elk and wolf and rare breeding bird species (e.g. corncrake ).
  • The water network is sparse and unregulated, but mostly with a small proportion of deciduous forest. The brooks are close to nature, often high herbaceous creek meadows with alpine milk lettuce . The Bohemian Forest is a watershed between the Elbe and the Danube .
  • Small scattered ponds in the meadow area are important as amphibian spawning waters. Dense occurrence of smaller, very original raised bogs , locally small spring bogs.
  • Grassland zones that characterize the landscape (meadows, pastures) exist, often poor in nutrients with many and rare plant species ( Bürstling lawn , red fescue meadows ). In the southern outskirts, there are some close links with the neighboring cultural landscape of the Mühltal .
  • Schwarzenbergscher Schwemmkanal as an important cultural monument.
  • Ski tourism on the Hochficht and Sternstein , cross-country skiing trails and cycling tourism.

literature

  • Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Nature Conservation Department (Ed.): Nature and Landscape / Guiding Principles for Upper Austria. Volume 9: Bohemian Forest spatial unit . Linz 2007 ( pdf [accessed on February 18, 2017]).

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