French forest
The Franzosenwald is a forest south of Seitenstetten in Lower Austria .
Military cemetery
The Franzosenwald is a resting place for Austrian soldiers who fell between 1796 and 1800 in the Second Coalition War and for French soldiers who fell in the Third Coalition War , when they also advanced via Seitenstetten in autumn 1805 after the battle at Steyr was won . On a wrought-iron cross in the forest is written: “Here rest 176 Austrian soldiers who bled in the holy battle against the French and who, as a result of severe wounds, found their suffering in the military hospital of the Seitenstetten Abbey in the years 1796–1800 . "And next to it" French soldiers who died of serious injuries in the monastery hospital also rest here. "
The war cemetery was restored and expanded in 1990 by the Austrian Black Cross , war grave provision in cooperation with the ÖKB local association Seitenstetten.
Nature trail
22 tree and 14 shrub species are presented in detail on an educational trail developed by students from Seitenstetten Abbey High School under the direction of their biology teachers Leo Mader and Josef Schlöglhofer in collaboration with the forest administration of Seitenstetten Abbey . General biological and forest topics are dealt with on a further 12 illustrated panels.
Individual evidence
- ^ History of Seitenstetten on seitenstetten.gv.at
- ↑ The French Forest Nature Trail. In: mapio.net. Retrieved July 18, 2017 (images of the war cemetery).
- ↑ Nature trail French Forest Seitenstetten. Ministry for an Austria worth living in, December 5, 2012, accessed on July 18, 2017 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 43 ″ N , 14 ° 39 ′ 31 ″ E