Föhrenberge Nature Park

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View from Frauenstein to the Hussar Temple . In the foreground the eponymous black pines.
Information board about the Föhrenberge Nature Park recreation area (legible)

The Föhrenberge Nature Park is located on the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods in Lower Austria . It is one of the local recreation areas of Vienna . The 6,500  hectare nature park extends from Perchtoldsdorf in the north to Gumpoldskirchen . In between are the municipal areas of Gießhübl , Maria Enzersdorf , Mödling , Hinterbrühl and Gaaden . The nature park is freely accessible.

Natural sights

The name of the nature park comes from the many Austrian black pines - also called parapluy trees in Viennese and umbrella pines in Lower Austria - that grow on the limestone soil. The highest point is the great Anninger , its northeastern branch is the archaeologically interesting Jennyberg . The area lies on the border of the Pannonian flora province and the alpine flora sub-region at the edge of the Vienna basin . Botanical rarities of the pine forests are the Mödling spring carnation and the Carpathian rock flower . The Baden panicle ( Poa badensis ), which occurs scattered in the Pannonian region , was named after the city of Baden .

In the nature park is the Perchtoldsdorfer Heide, where European ground squirrels , which are on the red list as particularly worthy of protection, are at home. The heather is a dry grassland and thus belongs to a whole series of dry-warm (xerothermal) biotopes on the edge of the Vienna basin, such as the Steinfeld , Heferlberg, Mödlinger Eichkogel , Himmelwiese, Nasenweg , Bisamberg and the old hills . The Perchtoldsdorfer Heide is home to a botanical rarity: the Austrian dragon's head , a typical steppe lawn plant with a very disjoint distribution.

Built sights

In the nature park there are historical buildings such as the ruins of Mödling Castle , the Hussar Temple and Liechtenstein Castle . Directly above the church of Kaltenleutbaren is the Rebecca spring, which between 1865 and 1938 supplied the health resort of Kaltenleutbaren with healing water. And three observation towers that are still open to the public were built before 1900: the Wilhelmswarte on the highest point of the Anninger, the Kaiser-Jubiläumswarte (1898) on the Eschenkogel (not far from the Anninger) and the Josefswarte , which opened on June 29, 1881 on the Hinteren Föhrenberg .

Picture gallery

  • Access at the Kuhheide in Gießhübl

  • Big cow bells

  • Memorial plaque to Prince Johann von Liechtenstein, to whom many of the park's sights go back

Web links

Commons : Naturpark Föhrenberge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred A. Fischer, Karl Oswald, Wolfgang Adler: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol . 3rd, improved edition. Province of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85474-187-9 , p. 252 . , taking into account the corrections to the 3rd edition (2008) of the excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol (2008) in: Neilreichia 5: 289–296 (2008) ( Online ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info : The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 232 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.flora-austria.at
  2. ^ Beautification Association. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , July 9, 1881, p. 7, top center (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bbb

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 30 ″  N , 16 ° 13 ′ 12 ″  E