Mattigtal
The Mattigtal is one of 41 Upper Austrian spatial units and is located in the Innviertel .
location
The room unit is located exclusively in the Braunau am Inn district and is named after the Mattig river .
The area of the Mattigtal spatial unit is 91.30 km². The deepest area is around 400 m above sea level. A. north of Mauerkirchen . The highest area of the area is near Lengau at around 530 m above sea level. A.
The following municipal areas are predominantly or entirely in the Mattig Valley (in alphabetical order): Burgkirchen , Helpfau-Uttendorf , Jeging , Mattighofen , Mauerkirchen , Munderfing and Pfaffstätt .
The spatial unit is surrounded by the following Upper Austrian spatial units (clockwise, starting in the north): Inntal , Inn- and Hausruckviertler Hügelland , Hausruck and Kobernaußerwald , Vöckla-Ager-Hügelland and Südinnviertler Seengebiet .
Characteristic
- Low and high terrace corridors of Mattig and Schwemmbach with many side channels.
- The Mattig is meandering in large areas and largely undeveloped. Many near-natural riparian trees exist especially north of Mattighofen. Many areas were regulated in the settlement areas.
- The Schwemmbach, formerly created artificially for wood flood , flows rather slowly.
- Some retention basins near Teichstätt contain a species-rich fauna and flora.
- The valley area is rather poor in cultural landscape elements, only between Mattighofen and Mauerkirchen is there a rich cultural landscape with hedges, single trees, avenues and orchards .
- Larger forest areas ( spruce forests ) can only be found south of Mattighofen, otherwise the area is rather poorly forested. Otherwise there are black alder - ash forests , only a few hybrid poplar forests and beech forests . In part, remains of natural deciduous forests can be found on the slopes between the low and high terrace.
- There are small remnants of lean meadows on the edges of the embankment and isolated wet meadows. The area is mainly used intensively for agriculture (mainly arable farming).
- There are some larger settlement centers in the valley area (Mattighofen, Uttendorf, Mauerkirchen, etc.) but there is a strong trend towards urban sprawl along the transport routes and in the vicinity of the settlement areas.
literature
- Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Nature Conservation Department (Ed.): Nature and Landscape / Guiding Principles for Upper Austria. Volume 26: Mattigtal room unit . Linz 2007 ( pdf [accessed December 1, 2014]).
Web links
- Map of the Mattigtal space unit. In: DORIS . Retrieved December 1, 2014 .
- Mattigtal. In: Nature and Landscape in Upper Austria. Retrieved December 1, 2014 .