Münichholz Forest
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 17 ″ N , 14 ° 26 ′ 8 ″ E
The Münichholz Forest , also just Münichholz, is a forest area near Steyr in Upper Austria .
Location and ecology
The Münichholz Forest is one of the larger remains of the forest on the banks of the Enns in the Lower Ennstal . It is located in the Münichholz district on the right bank of the Enns, in the Ennsknie below the Ramingbach estuary .
The forest area is a still closed rest of the alluvial forest , it is only cut through by a street (Karl-Punzer-Straße) towards the city center. It covers 47.7 hectares, and is of major importance as an urban ecological natural area as well as a local recreation area, and is designated as a recreational forest .
Today the Münichholz is made up of different forest and forest forms. On its southwestern edge there is still an oxbow lake of the Enns, accompanied by soft and hard alluvial forest .
history
The name Minichholz ('Mönchswald') refers to the properties of the Gleink Benedictine Abbey on the east bank of the Enns. The name as such has passed on to the entire district.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b DORIS, topic forest , layer forest development plan ': functional areas forest and protection, ban and recreation forests
- ↑ a b Günter Dorninger (Red.), Province of Upper Austria (Ed.): Mapping of natural areas Upper Austria: Biotope mapping city of Steyr. Final report, Kirchdorf an der Krems 2005; Biotope types of the study area , p. 25; Overview of the biotope inventory , p. 31; Land use , p. 42; Valuable biotope ensembles , p. 60 ( pdf , land-oberoesterreich.gv.at).
- ↑ natural space mapping. P. 37.
- ^ Franz [Xavier Joseph] Schweickhardt Ritter von Sickingen: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens. 10th volume, 2nd row district of the Upper Vienna Woods. 1838, Münichholz. P. 113 f. ( Digitized, Google, full view ).