Leonfeldner highlands

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The highlands: View from Leonfelden towards the southeast

The Leonfeldner Hochland is one of 41 Upper Austrian spatial units and is located in the Mühlviertel .

location

The spatial unit comprises the northern part of the Urfahr-Umgebung and Freistadt districts and borders the Czech Republic in the north .

The size of the Leonfeldner highlands is 257.68 km². The area extends over a length of around 28 km and a maximum width of 8 km. The deepest area is around 570  m above sea level. A. at Reichenthal. The highest peaks of the area are in the south of the Breitlüsser Wald near Hellmonsödt with 870  m above sea level. A. and in the east the edge of the Heinrichschläger Berg with 885  m above sea level A.

The following municipal areas are mostly or entirely in the Leonfeldner highlands (starting in the south): Hellmonsödt , Zwettl , Sonnberg , Bad Leonfelden , Ottenschlag , Schenkenfelden , Waldburg , Reichenthal , Grünbach , Rainbach and Leopoldschlag .

The room unit is surrounded by the following Upper Austria room units (clockwise, starting in the north): Freiwald and Weinsberg Forest , Central Mühlviertel Highlands , Danube Gorge and side valleys and southern Bohemian Forest foothills .

The Leonfeldner Hochland is divided into three sub-units:

  • High plateau landscape with large areas of forest
  • Forest hilltop landscape
  • Open forest roof in the northeast

Characteristic

  • The main part of the highlands (plateau) lies at around 730 m and has a flat, undulating relief .
  • Mainly agricultural highlands with a mixed arable and grassland area.
  • Few small forests with tree species typical of the location ( beech , birch ), but some larger forest areas with predominantly spruce forests .
  • Some bodies of water are heavily regulated and there are hardly any trees along the banks ( black alder , ash , broken willow ). Only the lower reaches of the Maltsch are close to nature. The room unit is drained over a large area. The extensive meander loops offer a large, structurally rich floodplain.
  • Important meadow breeding bird area because of the grassland, the fallow land and the meander loops.
  • An area that is very impoverished in terms of landscape structures, the formerly richly structured landscape of hedges and stripes has been almost completely destroyed by amalgamation. Drainages can be found in large areas. Sometimes there are small bog areas that are affected by peat extraction.
  • Individual settlement centers (Zwettl, Bad Leonfelden, Hellmonsödt, Reichenau) dominate, the other settlement areas are mostly elongated ( Waldhufendörfer ).
  • Day tourism can be found in summer and winter (Mühlviertler Bergkräuter, Kurhaus in Bad Leonfelden, Reichenthal).

literature

  • Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Nature Conservation Department (Ed.): Nature and Landscape / Guiding Principles for Upper Austria. Volume 30: Leonfeldner Hochland spatial unit . Vienna 2007 ( pdf [accessed February 17, 2017]).

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