List of landscape protection areas in Lower Austria

Marking of Lower Austrian landscape protection areas

In Lower Austria there are 29 landscape protection areas , with which around 22 percent of the area of ​​the state is protected.

The landscape protection areas are protected on the basis of the last Lower Austrian Nature Conservation Act from 2000 and the state ordinances.

No. (1)	designation	district	Communities ${\displaystyle *}$	Hectares	LGBl. No.	location	Remarks
1	Bisamberg and its surroundings	Korneuburg	Langenzersdorf , Bisamberg	2,000.00
2	Dobersberg	Waidhofen an der Thaya	Dobersberg	1,600.00
3	Enzesfeld – Lindabrunn – Hernstein	to bathe	Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn , Hernstein , Berndorf	7,000.00			partly ESG  Northeast Rim Alps  (FFH, AT1212A00 , 64,066 ha) or BSG  Northeast Rim Alps  (VS, AT1212000 , 5,475 ha); adjoining BP and LSG  Wienerwald  ( AUS06 , LSG 18), ESG  Wienerwald – Thermenregion ( GGB AT1211A00, BSG AT1211000 ), LSG  Hohe Wand – Dürre Wand  (No. 6)
4th	Geras and its surroundings	horn	Geras	3,250.00
5	Göttweiger Berg and its surroundings	Krems	Furth near Göttweig , Paudorf	225.00
6th	High wall – drought wall	Neunkirchen , Wiener Neustadt	Grünbach am Schneeberg , Waldegg , Hohe Wand , Miesenbach , Markt Piesting , Winzendorf-Muthmannsdorf	12,800.00
7th	Johannesbachklamm	Neunkirchen	Schrattenbach , Würflach	2,000.00
8th	Kamptal	Horn , Krems , Zwettl	Krumau am Kamp , Altenburg , Gars am Kamp , Horn , Jaidhof , Langenlois , Pölla , Rastenfeld , Rosenburg-Mold , St. Leonhard am Hornerwald , Schönberg am Kamp , Waldhausen , Zwettl-Lower Austria	35,000.00
9	Quieter mountains	Korneuburg , Mistelbach	Asparn an der Zaya , Ernstbrunn , Gnadendorf , Niederleis	7,000.00			contains the majority of NPK 7 Leiserberge (4,500 ha); Parts of ESG  Weinviertel cliff zone  (FFH, AT1206A00 , 3,185 ha)
10	Upper Pulkau Valley	Hollabrunn , Horn	Pulkau , Sigmundsherberg	3,500.00
11	Ötscher – Dürrenstein	Amstetten , Lilienfeld , Scheibbs	Gaming , Göstling an der Ybbs , Lunz am See , Annaberg , Mitterbach am Erlaufsee , Puchenstuben , St. Anton an der Jeßnitz , St. Georgen am Reith , Scheibbs , Ybbsitz	80,000.00
12	Rax – Schneeberg	Neunkirchen , Wiener Neustadt	Gloggnitz , Gutenstein , Puchberg am Schneeberg , Reichenau an der Rax , Schottwien , Schwarzau im Gebirge , Breitenstein , Otterthal , Payerbach , Prigglitz , Rohr im Gebirge , Semmering , Vöstenhof	71,500.00			contains a large part of the ESG  Northeast Rim Alps  (FFH, AT1212A00 , 64,066 ha); contains NSG 4 / NPK 3 Falkenstein
13	Sierningtal	Neunkirchen	Ternitz	3,100.00
14th	Steinbergwald	Gänserndorf	Neusiedl an der Zaya	400.00
15th	Strudengau and the surrounding area	Amstetten , Melk	Neustadtl an der Donau , Nöchling , Hofamt Priel , Sankt Martin-Karlsbach , Ybbs an der Donau	12,600.00
16	Thayatal	Hollabrunn , Waidhofen an der Thaya	Raabs an der Thaya , Drosendorf-Zissersdorf , Hardegg , Niederfladnitz	2,900.00
17th	Wachau and the surrounding area	Krems , Melk	Dürnstein , Aggsbach , Dunkelsteinerwald , Emmersdorf , Maria Laach am Jauerling , Mühldorf , Rossatz-Arnsdorf , Schönbühel-Aggsbach , Spitz , Weißenkirchen , Weiten , Bergern in the Dunkelsteinerwald , Weinzierl am Walde , Krems an der Donau , Mautern an der Donau , Melk , Raxendorf .	46,300.00
18th	Vienna Woods	District of Mödling , St. Pölten and Tulln	50 municipalities **	105,000.00			Description of the territorial boundaries at the end of the table; includes Nope. Share of the BP  Wienerwald  ( AUS06 , 105,645 ha); largely ESG  Wienerwald – Thermenregion ( GGB AT1211A00, BSG AT1211000 , 82,120 and 79,810 ha); numerous NSG , NPKs  Föhrenberge , Sandstein-Wienerwald , Sparbach , Eichenhain ( No. 4, 9, 11, 12 ) various NWR ; adjoining ESG  Tullnerfelder Donau-Auen ( GGB AT1216000, BSG AT1216V00 ), GGB  Nordostliche Randalpen ( AT1212A00 ), LSG  Enzesfeld – Lindabrunn – Hernstein  (No. 3)
19th	Falkenstein	Mistelbach	Falkenstein	3,500.00
20th	Danube – March – Thaya floodplains	District of Gänserndorf , Korneuburg , Bruck an der Leitha	Rabensburg , Hohenau an der March , Ringelsdorf-Niederabsdorf , Drösing , Angern an der March , Weiden an der March , Marchegg , Eckartsau , Orth an der Donau , Mannsdorf an der Donau , Großenzersdorf , Fischamend , Haslau-Maria Ellend , Scharndorf , Petronell- Carnuntum	20,500.00
21st	Ybbsfeld – Forstheide	Amstetten	Allhartsberg , Amstetten , Euratsfeld , Ulmerfeld-Hausmening , St. Georgen am Ybbsfelde , Wall near Amstetten , Kematen an der Ybbs , Winklarn	1,250.00
22nd	Leithagebirge	Bruck an der Leitha	Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge , summer time	680.00			passing over to the Burgenland protected area
23	Buchenberg	Waidhofen an der Ybbs	Waidhofen an der Ybbs	239.00
24	Seebenstein – Scheiblingkirchen – Thernberg	Neunkirchen	Seebenstein , Scheiblingkirchen-Thernberg	980.00
25th	Großpertholz	District of Gmünd	Bad Großpertholz	750.00
26th	Gamsstein Voralpe	Amstetten	Hollenstein on the Ybbs	4,845.00			borders the federal states of Upper Austria and Styria in the three-country corner
27	Dietmanns	Waidhofen an der Thaya	Dietmanns	460.00
28	Retz hill country	Hollabrunn	Retz	395.00
29	Landseer Mountains	Wiener Neustadt	Schwarzenbach	896.00

⁽¹⁾ Numbering of § 2 LSG-V 5500/35

* All municipalities that are affected by the landscape area are listed. It can be the entire municipality or just individual cadastral municipalities or individual properties.

** Boundary of the landscape protection area:

• Klosterneuburger Straße between the state border with Vienna to St. Andrä vor dem Hagenthale
• via Landesstraße 118 to Judenau to Tullner Straße
• from Judenau via Tullner Straße to Neulengbach
• in the continuation along Landesstraße 119 to Hainfelder Straße in Gstettl near Hainfeld
• from Gstettl via Hainfelder Straße to the intersection with the First Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline near Leobersdorf
• Along the aqueduct to Pfaffstätten to the aqueduct via the L4010 (which leads from Pfaffstätten to Gaaden ) to the southern railway (Austria)
• along the railway line to Mödling and on through Maria Enzersdorf , Brunn am Gebirge , Perchtoldsdorf to the Vienna city limits
• along the city limits to the starting point

See also

• List of nature reserves in Lower Austria

Web links

Commons : Landscape protection areas in Lower Austria  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Publications of the state of Lower Austria on the subject of nature conservation in Lower Austria

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Lower Austria ordinances on landscape protection areas No. 5500/35 (ris.bka)
2. ^ Report of the Federal Environment Agency from 1998 (PDF file; 1.7 MB), accessed on June 7, 2010

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