Hametwald

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Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 56 ″  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 55 ″  E

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The Hametwald is a forest area near Sierning in Upper Austria .

Location and landscape

The Hametwald is one of the larger remains of the forest in the extra-alpine Traunviertel . It is located in the Traun-Enns-Riedelland west of Sierning , in the municipal area of ​​Sierning and Waldneukirchen , at around 400  m above sea level. A.

The forest extends over 3 kilometers north to south from Hilbern to Katzenmarkt and Oberwallern . It includes the valley of the uppermost Seilerbach (Vallabach), which then goes over Schiedlberg to Krems . Over the Riedel to the east, the forest reaches into the uppermost ditch of the Ipfbach . Over the Riedel to the west are the headwaters of some other Krems tributaries in the forest, namely Thanstettner Mühlbach , Piberbach and Badhaller Edtbach .

On the south-eastern edge at Kammerhub lies the watershed point Steyr (and Enns ) - Krems - Ipfbach ( ⊙ ), the larger Danube tributaries of the eastern Traun-Enns-Platte.

history

The Hametwald belongs to the forest area between Dietach and Sierning mentioned in 777, which belonged to the Slawendekanie . The name is documented around 1270 as Heumad zu Mahd, Mähen , which refers to the early clearing in the area. Originally, the forest area has seen extensive, in the 18th century there was talk of Upper Hametwald , the Lower Hametwald is today Droißingerwald north of the Hametwald by Auslichtungen at lower Hilbern is separated and Hilbern. The location of the name belonging to Steinersdorf is now run as Hametner .

Nature and water management

The forest is a contiguous, relatively near-natural forest that is only cut up by the Voralpenstraße  (B122, Sierning - Bad Hall) and at the very north edge by the Großmengersdorfstraße (L1359).

It represents an important local recreation area for the city of Steyr . In the southeast near Kammerhub there is a forester's house in a clearing, which today serves as a seminar location.

In addition, there is a water protection area (Waldneukirchen-Hametwald) with 8.8 hectares on the southern edge . The establishment of a large associated water protection area (Hametwald-Droißingerwald) is planned.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfons Dopsch (ed.): The landesfürstl. Urbare Nieder- u. Upper Austria from the 13th and 13th centuries 14th century (= Austrian land register, 1st department, 1st volume), Kais. Akad. D. Wiss., Vienna a. Leipzig 1904, p. 188, No. 89.
  2. ↑ a b c d Peter Wiesinger: Place Name Book of the Province of Upper Austria. Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2001, 7.7.2.8 Hamet, ZH von Steinersdorf , p. 201 (and 7.6.5.10 Hamet, Jh. Von Sierning ).
  3. ↑ The Josephinische Landesaufnahme around 1780 gives Ober Hamet Wald and Unter Hamet Wald , as well as Steinersdorfer farms Unter and Ober Haimetner ; In the Franciscan cadastre around 1830, Droißingerwald appears on its northern edge, Hamet as the field name near Sierning, the farms Unt. and whether. Hamet (all regional recordings online at Arcanum / Austrian State Archives: mapire.eu ).
  4. ^ Office of the Upper Austrian provincial government, nature conservation department (ed.): Nature and landscape / Leitbilder für Oberösterreich. tape 38 : Traun-Enns-Riedelland room unit . Linz 2007, p. 27, 31 ( pdf [accessed February 18, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Forsthof hunting lodge in the Hametwald. Landhotel Forsthof, Sierning (accessed on September 22, 2018).
  6. ↑ a b WPZ 415/1512 I + II, protection zones II and III; DORIS information, subject of water and geology , layer water protection areas and water protection areas .
  7. ↑ a b Province of Upper Austria, GTW: Information event on drinking water protection and agriculture in Dietach, Garsten, Sierning, Steyr, Waldneukirchen and Wolfern , presentation, undated (2013), in particular map fol. 20 ( pdf , section Boden.Wasser.Schutz .Beratung, bwsb.at; accessed on September 22, 2018).