Main region of the Weinviertel

Regional Association of the European Region Weinviertel
legal form	Association ; ( ZVR : 712355404)
founding	1995
Seat	Zistersdorf
Members	112 municipalities
Website	on noeregional.at (office of NÖ.Regional.GmbH)

The main regions of Lower Austria

The main region Weinviertel is one of the main regions (five "quarters") of the spatial planning of Lower Austria, and is organized in the regional association Europaregion Weinviertel , the association of the municipalities and municipal associations of these municipalities, the Leader regions and other regionally important representatives. It belongs to the Euregio Weinviertel-South Moravia-West Slovakia .

In the course of joining the EU , the regional association was established in 1995. Since 2015, the association's operational work has been transferred to the newly created NÖ.Regional.GmbH of the state, in which the regional association holds 6%, with the Lower Austrian Village and Urban Renewal Association of all municipalities as a partner.

As such, the region corresponds to the traditional Weinviertel , without the communities of the Tulln district north of the Danube and the communities east of the Manhartsberg, which belong to the Horn district . This main Weinviertel region includes:

Districts Gänserndorf , Hollabrunn , Korneuburg and Mistelbach (complete)

The small regions of the Weinviertel are (as of 2016, with number):

Pulkautal initiative (2, 6 communities)
Retzer Land (14, 7 municipalities)
Weinviertler Dreiländereck (16, 11 municipalities)
Schmidatal Landscape Park (17, 4 communities)
Land around Hollabrunn (20, 6 municipalities, dissolved in 2016)
Leiser Berge – Mistelbach (33, 6 communities)
Southern Weinviertel (35, 13 municipalities)
10 before Vienna (44, 10 municipalities)
Land around Laa (46, 11 municipalities)
RV March-Thaya-Auen (47, 6 communities)
Region around Wolkersdorf (48, 6 communities)
Marchfeld region (56, municipalities)
Maissau and Mühlbach am Manhartsberg belong to the small region Manhartsberg (58, 8 municipalities) in the main region Waldviertel
Stetteldorf am Wagram belongs to the Wagram region (24, 9 municipalities), which is mainly part of Lower Lower Austria .

In the Lower Austria nature conservation concept , the main region is divided into the regions

6, highlands near Hardegg and eastern Thayatal
7, northwestern Weinviertel ,
8, northeastern Weinviertel,
9, southwest Weinviertel,
10, Southeastern Weinviertel and
11, Donau-March-Thayaauen and Marchfeld.

The Natura 2000 areas in Lower Austria are each completely assigned to one of the five main regions of the state development concept and processed in a structured manner according to a uniform scheme. The following European protected areas exist in the main Weinviertel region:

Type	No.	Surname	Management plan
FFH area	AT1202000	March-Thaya floodplains	Management plan for European protected areas "March-Thaya-Auen"
Bird sanctuary	AT1202V00	March-Thaya floodplains
FFH area	AT1206A00	Weinviertel cliff zone	Management plan for the European protected area "Weinviertel cliff zone"
FFH area	AT1208A00	Thayatal near Hardegg	Management plan for the European protected area "Thayatal bei Hardegg"
FFH area	AT1209A00	Western Weinviertel	Management plan for European protected areas "Western Weinviertel"
Bird sanctuary	AT1209000	Western Weinviertel
FFH area	AT1213000	Pannonian sand dunes	Management plan for the European protected areas "Pannonian Sand Dunes" and "Sand Soil and Prater Terrace"
Bird sanctuary	AT1213V00	Sandy floor and Prater terrace
FFH area	AT1215000	Bisamberg	Management plan for the European reserve "Bisamberg"