Haugstein
| Haugstein | ||
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 View over the Danube to the Haugstein |
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| height | 895 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Upper Austria , Austria | |
| Mountains | Sauwald | |
| Dominance | 11.8 km → Southern Bohemian Forest foothills | |
| Notch height | 490 m ↓ west of Kimpling | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 30 '30 " N , 13 ° 40' 13" E | |
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| particularities | Highest peak in the Sauwald and Innviertel; Small ski area; Priority zone location space for wind energy |
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The Haugstein is 895 m above sea level. A. the highest mountain in the Sauwald in the Upper Austrian district of Schärding ( Innviertel ).
Location and landscape
The wooded ridge with individual granite blocks is located near Engelhartszell on the Danube and, according to the Austrian Alpine Association, is the highest mountain in the Innviertel . At the foot of the mountain are Vichtenstein Castle and the Vichtenstein community .
Geologically, the low mountain range belongs to the Austrian part of the Bohemian Massif , the granite and gneiss plateau .
Development
On the double summit there is a bricked trigonometric point and a summit cross . The mountain is accessible to tourists through cross-country skiing trails. The ski lift, which was in operation until winter 2010/2011, has now been dismantled.
Not far from the summit is the wooden hunter picture chapel , inside of which there is a beechwood trunk . According to a legend, a forester in the service of the Passau bishops is said to have been tied upside down by poachers on a beech tree in 1697 and freed by a white stag. Since then, the chapel has been a memorial to the hunters of the Schärding district.
Sauwald wind energy priority zone
In 2011, the Upper Austria Wind Master Plan identified the mountain as a Sauwald priority zone . Here an expansion of wind energy appears economically, ecologically and in terms of landscape protection justifiable.
The zone covers the area south of the summit, about 2 kilometers in extent in the municipal areas Engelhartszell and Vichtenstein.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The highest mountains of the 18 political districts of Upper Austria on alpenverein.at
- ↑ The highest in the Innviertel : In: Der Standard . May 9, 2005.
- ↑ Office of Oö.Landesregierung, Conservation Department: indoor unit Sauwald. (PDF; 1.1 MB) p. 46.
- ↑ 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 ) . Map, January 2012 (pdf, land-oberoesterreich.gv.at; 1.3 MB).