Kellerberg (Breitenlee)

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The Kellerberg is a shabby hill near Breitenlee in the 22nd district of  Vienna, Donaustadt , in the north of Vienna. It was completely dug up around 1915 in favor of the planned Breitenlee marshalling yard.

At 165  m above sea level A. , about 20 meters above sea level, the Kellerberg was the highest point in the Marchfeld at the time . It used to be on a branch of the Danube.

The Kellerberg was a large sand dune . The total extraction was over 100,000 cubic meters of sand.

The dune was probably formed during the Ice Ages, when a steppe-like climate prevailed outside the glaciation in the Pannonian region . The permanent easterly winds deposited the loess of the Vienna basin here . The dune was covered with vegetation, but in the profile numerous layers of other layers of humus that were later flooded could be seen. Its shape is likely to have changed again and again up to historical times.

Remnants of the Kellerberg can still be seen east of Oleandergasse as soil forms. The xerophilic flora of the former Kellerberg is likely to be the main reason for today's remarkable dry vegetation in the abandoned train station area. The areas were included in the newly established Donaustadt landscape protection area in 2015 and are planned as part of the planned Norbert Scheed Forest .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Brunner, Petra Schneider: Environment City: History of the natural and habitat Vienna. Volume 1 of Wiener Umweltstudien , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 9783205774006 , p. 332, marginal note ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ a b c d Roman Hödl: The basement mountain near Breitenlee. In: Monthly Journal of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria 10, 1919/23, pp. 41–42 ( pdf , noel.gv.at; there p. 49 f).
  3. ^ Manfred A. Fischer , Karl Oswald, Wolfgang Adler: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol. 3rd, improved edition. State of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85474-187-9 , p. OA
  4. ↑ Sepp Snizek, ARGE Vegetation Ecology: Securing the Breitenlee marshalling yard as a protected part of the landscape. Report . MA 22 Referat 3, Vienna 1999, p. 4 ( pdf , wien.gv.at; there p. 5) ..

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '  N , 16 ° 30'  E