Gaugsham Forest
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 53 " N , 13 ° 13 ′ 33" E
The Gaugshamer Forest is a forest area near Altheim in the Innviertel of Upper Austria .
Location and landscape
The forest is located in the Inn and Hausruckviertel hill country at the northern foot of the Kobernaußerwald , about 14 kilometers southeast of Braunau am Inn , 4 kilometers south of Altheim. It extends about 4 kilometers in a north-west-south-east direction and 1½ kilometers in a south-west-north-east direction between Stern and Roßbach . It is partly in Altheimer municipality area, the southern part belongs to Treubach and Roßbach. Together with the Schachawald to the east, it forms the largest closed forest area in the Innviertel hill country. It has its highest elevation in the Aichberg (approx. 480 m above sea level ) above Treubach.
The name comes from the small town of Gaugsham at the northwest end near Stern.
As a forest forest, the forest consists almost exclusively of spruce trees and only occasionally has stands that are closer to nature.
history
In the Middle Ages, an extensive forest area stretched between the Gaugshamer and Schachawald on the one hand and the Kobernaußerwald and Hausruck . The area from Treubach to Lohnsburg was only cleared in the High Middle Ages , so that the Gaugshamerwald became a forest island. This clearing zone is marked by the -eck , -schlag and -reut names, the -ed names indicate older, repopulated settlement areas.
Leisure, culture and sights
There is a small chapel in the forest, the Hofinger Chapel above Wesen.
The Innviertel Way of St. James leads through the forest on its stage from Stern to Treubach.
Wind energy priority zone Schalchen
In 2011, the Upper Austria wind power master plan identified the priority zone area of Schalchen , which comprises an area of around 1 km in the northwest part near Schalchen (municipality of Altheim and Treubach). According to the assessment by the wind energy working group of the state government, an expansion of wind energy appears economically, ecologically and also in terms of landscape protection to be justifiable.
The chess forest is also intended as a priority zone.
Individual evidence
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↑ Harald Pfleger (arrangement), u. a .: Landscape survey of the Altheim community. Final report (= on behalf of the Province of Upper Austria, Nature Conservation Department - Natural Space Mapping Upper Austria [Hrsg.]: Natural Space Mapping Upper Austria ). Kirchdorf an der Krems 2006, 2.5 Subarea 5: Large-scale spruce forest "Gaugshamer Wald" , p. 18 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
Harald Pfleger (arrangement), u. a .: Landscape survey of the municipality of Treubach. Final report (= natural area mapping Upper Austria ). Kirchdorf an der Krems 2006, 2.4 Large Forests “Schachawald” and “Gaugshamer Wald” , p.
17 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ). Andreas Knoll, Stefanie Zobl, Heike Göpfert (arrangement), u. a .: Landscape survey of the community of Roßbach. Final report (= natural area mapping Upper Austria ). Kirchdorf an der Krems, 2.1. Peaks, valleys and Gaugsham forest , p.
5 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ). Maps in each volume. - ↑ Kurt Kriso: The Kobernaußerwald under the influence of humans . A study of forest history. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austria. Museum association . 106th volume. Linz 1961, Fig. 2. Small overview map of the settlement process around the Kobernaußerwald , p. 273 and text p. 276 , full article 269–338; with overview V. Chronological overview of the history of the Kobernaußerwald and its foreland, p. 332 ff / PDF, p. 66 ff ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at - there p. 7 and 10 respectively).
- ↑ Innviertler Jakobsweg ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Map and route description on maps.ausflugstipps.at (ttg.at).
- ↑ Wind power master plan Upper Austria . Office of Upper Austria. State government - Environment and Water Management Directorate - Environment Protection Department: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at > Environment> Energy
- ↑ see working group wind energy: wind power master plan priority zones. ( Memento from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, land-oberoesterreich.gv.at; 1.3 MB) Map, January 2012.
