Hohe Wand Nature Park
Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 2 " N , 16 ° 2 ′ 53" E
The area of Hohe Wand is a natural park placed under protective rock formation surrounding on the Hohe Wand and located in the Gutenstein Alps in Lower Austria .
description
The area represents the eastern edge of the Alps at the transition to the Pannonian region and the Vienna Basin , the subsoil consists of limestone . The nature park is freely accessible, a fee is charged for certain facilities and for access by car.
The nature park is located in the municipality of Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl , Bad Fischau-Brunn , Hohe Wand and Höflein an der Hohe Wand . It is also protected as part of the European Protected Areas of the North-Eastern Rim Alps and the Hohe Wand-Dürre Wand landscape protection area.
Natural sights
The Hohe Wand is a wooded plateau mountain in the transition area from the alpine mountain to the Pannonian influenced rock-steppe flora and fauna. The cliffs, which are up to 230 meters high, slope down to the southeast, exposed to the so-called New World. There are several small and larger caves in the limestone, for example the Kohlröserl cave (Czerny cave) by the rock path or the unicorn cave , a show cave near Dreistetten .
Built sights
There has been a tourist infrastructure on the high plateau for a long time; a public road up to the plateau was carved into the rock as early as the 1930s. A chairlift, which has now been closed, also opened up the area.
The following facilities are available on the plateau:
- a near-natural children's playground with an adjoining petting zoo and a so-called play and fun mountain with a wildlife enclosure, observation tower and walk-in marmot burrow for human standards,
- an alpine and local museum,
- a nature park parlor,
- a dense network of marked hiking trails, secured via ferrata and free climbing areas as well as launch sites for hang-gliders and paragliders,
- on the upper edge of the wall a viewing terrace called "Skywalk" (see illustration) and a so-called "rock path" at the Kohlröserlhaus,
- Forest educational tours, adventure tours and llama trekking.
