Ehrentaler mountain

The Ehrentaler Berg is a wooded hill in the north of the urban area of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee . It is a protected landscape area .

It reaches a maximum height of 508  m above sea level. A. and is mainly forested. In the west it is bounded by the Glan . The slope towards the Glan is a - not fenced off - military training area. The eastern part is covered by a mixed forest dominated by spruce with hornbeams, beeches, oaks and linden trees. The southeast of the area is occupied by meadows and pastures, the boundary of which to the building land is formed by an embankment overgrown with linden and oak. The rest of the area is dominated by spruce monocultures.

The Römersteig, which leads to the Romanesque church of Tessendorf, leads over the Ehrentaler Berg.

The agricultural school Schloss Ehrental with a large pond is located south of the Ehrentaler Berg, already outside the landscape protection area .

Landscape protection area

The Ehrentaler Berg was declared a landscape protection area in 1984 together with the Spitalsberg a little south . Its main meaning is as a recreational area.

supporting documents

• Josef Knappinger, Ernst Woschitz: Nature in Klagenfurt. Natural monuments and protected areas of the state capital . Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-7084-0382-3 , p. 66f.
• Helmut Hartl, Hans Sampl, Ralf Unkart: Carinthia's gems. National parks, nature reserves, landscape reserves, natural monuments . Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1993, ISBN 3-85391-092-0 , p. 142.

Coordinates: 46 ° 39 ′ 25 ″  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 58 ″  E