Guntschacher Au

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Guntschacher Au with Glainach , view to the southwest

The Guntschacher Au , in Slovenian Humče, is a 60-hectare meadow landscape on the Drava in the Rosental region in the south of the Sattnitz .

The Au is home to over 2000 species of plants and animals. Special features are the dice snake , the sterlet and the two species of birds that breed here, the kingfisher and the goosander .

During the construction of the Annabrücke dam power station, the floodplain was to be filled up and converted into agricultural land. However, the nature conservation officer of the state of Carinthia managed to preserve the meadow as a compensation area for areas that were lost. Today the dynamics of the floodplain are impaired by the power plant, but it is still an ecologically valuable wetland. In 2005 the Guntschacher Au was declared a nature reserve of the same name (LGBl. No. 107/2005).

supporting documents

  • Werner Petutschnig: Preserving, caring and shaping environmental protection . In: Bettina Golob, Helmut Zwander (eds.): The Sattnitz. Conglomerate of nature in the south of Carinthia . Natural Science Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-85328-041-2 , pp. 45–50, here p. 47.

Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '50.6 "  N , 14 ° 20' 37.1"  E