Forestry office and agricultural enterprise of the City of Vienna
| Forestry and agricultural enterprise (MA 49) | |
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 At the forester's house in the Lainzer Tiergarten |
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| ladder | Andreas Januskovecz |
| Business group | Environment business group |
| http://www.wald.wien.at | |
The Municipal Department 49 - Forestry and Urban Agriculture (MA 49) is responsible for administration and management of the property of the city of Vienna standing forestry and agricultural areas. 41,500 hectares of forest including alpine pastures and rocks and 2,500 hectares of agricultural land are managed by MA 49. The city of Vienna is the second largest public forest owner in Austria after the republic. The department is part of the Environment Business Group of the City of Vienna and has its seat, previously in Vienna 1., Volksgartenstraße 3, since March 2013 in Vienna 10., Triester Straße 114.
Administrative areas
Around four fifths of the administrative area of the City of Vienna's Forestry Office is located in the city's spring protection areas in Lower Austria and Styria , one fifth is within or in the vicinity of the federal capital. The administrative areas of MA 49 include the spring protection forests in the Rax, Schneeberg and Hochschwab areas, parts of the Vienna Woods Biosphere Park and the Donau-Auen National Park as well as smaller areas within the city that are valuable in terms of nature conservation. In addition to forest areas, MA 49 manages agricultural areas in Vienna and Lower Austria and the city's own Cobenzl winery with vineyards in the 19th and 21st districts of Vienna .
City forest
The maintenance of the recreational forests near the city and the design of recreational areas and green connections with new forests and meadows in the urban expansion areas are central tasks of MA 49 (see also Vienna Green Belt ). The area support includes the planning, construction and maintenance of hiking trails, playgrounds, nature trails, information facilities, observation points and animal enclosures. As a committee member in the Biosphärenpark Wienerwald GmbH and the National Park Society Donau-Auen GmbH, MA 49 and its partners set supra-regional natural space management goals. The city's own forest in the Vienna area is looked after by the Lainz and Lobau forest administrations .
Source protection forest
The city of Vienna is supplied with drinking water from the Rax , Schneeberg and Hochschwab areas via two high spring pipelines . The spring protection, water protection and sanctuary areas owned by the City of Vienna are managed by MA 49, taking into account the Water Law Act of 1959, as close to nature as possible and on a small scale. This near-natural approach includes the complete renunciation of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The source protection forests of the city of Vienna are looked after by the forest administrations Hirschwang , Naßwald and Wildalpen .
Environmental education
“Experience nature with all your senses” is the motto of the environmental education institutions of MA 49. Since the establishment of the First Vienna Forest School in Vienna in 1998, at that time the first forest educational institution of its kind in Austria, MA 49 has developed several models to convey environmental educational content. The offer ranges from the children's farm on the Cobenzl to the national park camp in the Danube floodplains. In 2007 MA 49 opened a national park house in Lobau. Today the second Viennese forest school of the forestry office is located on the upper floor of the house.
research
MA 49 cooperates with several scientific institutions, including the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences , the University of Vienna and the Federal Office and Research Center for Forests. There is close cooperation with Bio Research Austria , formerly the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Organic Agriculture . The non-university, non-profit research facility deals, among other things, with issues of compost use , plant cultivation , plant protection and climate protection . The findings from research are applied to the city's own areas.
Agriculture
MA 49 manages around 2,500 hectares of cultivation area in Vienna and Lower Austria. She cultivates around 2,000 hectares of arable land, around 1,000 hectares of which are organic, and 48 hectares of vineyards. Within Vienna, the city's own arable land is cultivated in accordance with organic farming guidelines. The regulations of the “Bioverband Bio Austria” apply to the areas, control and certification are guaranteed by the organic inspection body “Austria Bio Garantie”. At Weingut Cobenzl, located since 1907 in the possession of the City of Vienna, this traditional Viennese are varieties grown. Around three quarters of the wines are white wines such as Grüner Veltliner , Riesling , Pinot Blanc and the Viennese Mixed Sentence . Zweigelt and Pinot Noir dominate the red varieties . The city's own agricultural land is managed by the municipal estates of Laxenburg / Wallhof, Lindenhof / Eggenburg, the Biozentrum Lobau and the Vienna Cobenzl winery.
literature
- Magistrat der Stadt Wien, MA 49-Forstamt und Landwirtschaftsbetrieb (Ed.): Where forests have to be - history of the Vienna Forestry Office. Bohmann Druck- und Verlag Gesellschaft mbH & Co KG, Vienna 1993. ISBN 3-70020843-X .
- Oliver Lehmann, Andreas Schwab, Lois Lammerhuber: Viennese forests. Bohmann Druck- und Verlag Gesellschaft mbH & Co KG, Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-90198323-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ City Hall correspondence of the City of Vienna of June 28, 2001, New Head of the Vienna Woods. Retrieved October 25, 2010 .
- ↑ Job view Business Group Environment. Retrieved on October 25, 2010 : "Subordinate bodies [...] Magistratsabteilung 49 - Forestry Office and Agricultural Enterprise of the City of Vienna - Head of Department"
- ↑ Austrian Forestry Yearbook 2010. Österreichischer Agrarverlag, Vienna 2009.
- ^ Biosphärenpark Wienerwald GmbH . Retrieved October 25, 2010.
- ↑ Agreement according to Art. 15a B-VG between the federal government and the states of Lower Austria and Vienna on the establishment and maintenance of a Danube-Auen National Park . Retrieved October 25, 2010.
- ↑ Ordinance on the protection of water resources in the Schneeberg, Rax and Schneealpen areas . Retrieved October 25, 2010.
- ↑ Ordinance on the protection of water resources in the Hochschwab area . Retrieved October 25, 2010.
- ↑ Water Law 1959 . Retrieved October 25, 2010.
- ↑ City Hall correspondence of May 8, 1998, "Forest" experience for Vienna's children . Retrieved October 25, 2010.
- ↑ City hall correspondence of May 3, 2007, Sima opens the National Park House wien-lobAU . Retrieved October 25, 2010.
- ↑ Bio Austria website . Retrieved October 25, 2010.
- ↑ Website of Austria Bio Garantie GmbH . Retrieved October 25, 2010.