Wet forest

Nasswald ( Rotte ) district
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Neunkirchen  (NK), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Neunkirchen
Pole. local community	Schwarzau in the mountains
Locality	dig
Coordinates	47 ° 45 '48 "  N , 15 ° 41' 47"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '48 "  N , 15 ° 41' 47"  E
height	615  m above sea level A.
Building status	35 (addresses 2015, approx. )
Post Code	2661 Nasswald
prefix	+ 43/02667
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Schwarzau in the mountains (31 836 000)
Nasswald i. w. S. approx. 60 Geb. (2015) Source: STAT : Ortsverzeichnis ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Naßwald is a place in the Semmering – Rax region in Lower Austria and belongs to the municipality of Schwarzau im Gebirge in the Neunkirchen district .

geography

The place is located 5 kilometers south of Markt Schwarzau , in the village of Graben at the northern foot of the Rax massif . It is located in the Nassbachtal at around 615  m above sea level. A. Höhe, about 2½ km west of the north end of the Hell Valley .

Naßwald in the broader sense comprises around 60 buildings, in particular the scattered Reithof houses , and further into the valley the Naßwald Rotte itself, 35 houses around the church and the Oberhof group of houses .

As is customary in the area, Naßwald is seen even further, and as an independent district of the municipality includes the entire valley of the Naßbach, with Hinternaßwald / Wasseralm and Heufuss .

In Naßwald, the Naßbachtal, which has previously run east-west, turns south to the Naßkamm , at Reithof the Preintal of the Preinbach goes northwest, at Naßwald-Oberhof the valley of the Schwarzriegelbach goes west. The north ridge of the Rax massif rises from the Heukuppe (main summit of the Rax,  2007  m above sea level ) around the Kesselgraben , to the west the Große Sonnleitstein  ( 1639  m above sea level ), to the northwest the Hubmerkogel  ( 1282  m above sea level). ) and northeast of the Große Fegenberg  ( 1186  m above sea level ), the latter all foothills that are already included in the Mürzsteg Alps (the Rax itself is part of the more alpine Rax – Schneeberg group ).

Neighboring places:

Preintal	Hirschbach
Hayfoot Oberhof		Singer Riding school
Hinternaßwald

History, infrastructure and sights

The field name of the place refers to the abundance of water in the Talung. The forest itself was completely cleared at the end of the 18th century.

Ev. Rectory with parish church

Georg Hubmer , born in Gosau am Dachstein in 1755 , who as "Raxkönig" became the most important timber entrepreneur in the area ( Huebmer'sche Schwemm-Compagnie , initially with his brother Johann), supplied the wood from Hoyos' forest holdings to the ironworks from 1784 the Innerberger main union in Hirschwang , 1817 with imperial exclusive Schwemmprivileg of Francis II. for the Traisen river firewood to Vienna. Great flooding systems were built for the time .

Georg Hubmer's tomb ( Evangelical Cemetery in Nasswald )

As a result, numerous Protestant loggers from Gosau, Goisern and Hallstatt settled in the Salzkammergut and founded the second oldest Protestant community in Austria. Due to its economic importance and as the company headquarters, this group developed into a lively Protestant community - despite the predominantly Catholic residents in the area. In 1826 a school and prayer house was built here under the direction of Hubmer. Initially daughter of the parish Mitterbach am Erlaufsee, the parish became independent in 1861 ( Evangelical Parish Naßwald ). The cemetery is also worth seeing . In addition to the riding stables and his grave in the cemetery, a memorial site in the form of a lumberjack's hut reminds Hubmer .

Another attraction was the Naßwald Forest Railway , a museum railway that was built around 900 meters from the town center into the Heufuss Valley in 1985/1986, and was discontinued and dismantled in 2008.

The riding stables , seat of the Vienna forest administration

The entire Naßwaldtal is now property of the City of Vienna . In Reithof is the one of the municipality of Vienna , which looks after the spring protection areas of the first Viennese spring water pipeline , which was put into operation in 1873 . In particular, the good springs around the Wasseralm were captured here , the pipe goes over Naßwald out of the valley and then through the Höllental. The administration is located in the Reithof , an estate from the 17th century that Hubmer bought in 1801, converted into a residential and farmhouse and which has been owned by the City of Vienna since 1906.

Opposite the church is the former Oberhof, today the Raxkönig inn .

Today's 3½ kilometers long L4172 leads to Naßwald, which branches off from the B27  Höllental Straße ( Rohr  - Gloggnitz ) at Singerin .

The place is on the edge of the European Protected Area Northeastern Randalpen: Hohe Wand – Schneeberg – Rax , a fauna-flora-habitat area with an ecological focus, and in the extensive landscape protection area Rax – Schneeberg . There is also a water reserve here ( Rax – Schneeberg – Schneealpe ) . In the forest to the southeast there is a natural monument fir tree .

Trivia

The composer Josef Strauss created a musical memorial for the then poor residents of the Nasswald region. His Polka Mazurka Die Naßwalderin , op. 267, was premiered in 1869; The occasion was a visit from Naßwalder who had come to Vienna as part of an aid organization founded by August Silberstein .

Personalities

• Georg Huebmer (1755–1833, born in Gosau, Upper Austria), timber entrepreneur, known as the "father of Naßwald" and "Raxkönig"
• Daniel Innthaler (1847–1923, born in Naßwald), mountain guide
• Konrad Kain (1883–1934, born in Hinternaßwald), mountain guide

literature

• Ottokar Janetschek : The Rax King. 1929. (New edition: Heimat Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-9501643-3-2 ).
• Fritz Lange: From Dachstein to Rax - In the footsteps of Georg Hubmer. Sutton Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-184-4 .
• Brigitta Masur: The development of the Nasswald valley. Dissertation at the Phil. Faculty of the University of Vienna, 1975.
• August Silberstein: Land and people in the Nasswalde. Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1868.

See also : Georg Hubmer: further literature

Web links

Commons : Naßwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

• 31836 - Schwarzau in the mountains. Community data, Statistics Austria .

1. ↑ Home page of the community homepage : "The village consists of only one cadastral community, but is still divided into districts that are only the size of a group: Naßwald, Vois, Steinbruch, Preintal, Markt, Trauch and area". Likewise, Geographie , ibid., Both accessed April 9, 2015 (the latter no longer available; more recent version of the description: “. There are several valleys, called Rotten, to them: Naßwald, Vois, Steinbruch, Preintal, Markt, Trauch and area. " Geography , accessed March 19, 2018).
2. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio -Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria, south of the Danube. Part 2. Verlag Berger, Horn / Wien 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , p. 2156 ff.
3. ↑ Evangelical Parish Naßwald (on gloggnitz.evang.at).
4. ↑ F. Schönbrunner: The safety measures in the headwaters of the I. Wiener Hochquellleitung. In: Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects , 1926. According to Emil Prinz, Robert Kampe: Handbuch der Hydrologie. Volume 2 springs (fresh water and mineral springs). Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-366241183-4 , there especially map Fig. 137 The planned source protection area of ​​the city of Vienna (according to Schönbrunner) with the property ( limited preview in the Google book search).