Leiser Berge Nature Park

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View from Oberleiser Berg to Buschberg with its radar systems

The Leiser Berge area in Lower Austria is protected as the Leiserberge Nature Park and the Leiser Berge landscape protection area. The nature park is freely accessible.

Anton Gössinger is considered to be the founder, and a memorial stone was placed in honor of him on the Buschberg .

Location and conservation

The nature park is about 35 kilometers north of Vienna. It extends over the Leiser Berge, a chain of hills in the cliff zone (Waschbergzone), which connects the Alps with the Carpathians in the Weinviertel on the edge of the Pannonian Plain ( Alpine-Carpathian Foreland ). The Ernstbrunn Forest borders to the west , the forest areas stretch to Hollabrunn .

The cultivated landscape, which has been cultivated since the Neolithic Age, includes mixed oak forests, fields and steppe-like dry grassland at a height of 400  m above sea level. A. The geological structure of limestone and marl lime and the location on the climatic border between the Atlantic and Pannonian regions cause the eastern distribution of many plants and animals in the Eurasian steppe belt.

The nature park was designated in 1970, the total area is about 4000  hectares . In the same year, a somewhat more extensive area in the sense of a buffer zone was designated as a landscape protection area, it covers 7,000 hectares, namely the area of ​​the cadastral communities Michelstetten and Schletz , market town of Asparn an der Zaya ; the cadastral communities Au , Dörfles , Ernstbrunn , Klement , Oberleis , Steinbach , all market communities Ernstbrunn ; the cadastral community Pyhra , Gnadendorf community and the cadastral communities Niederleis and Nodendorf , Niederleis community . The nature park also includes smaller areas in Grafensulz , municipality of Ladendorf .

Large parts of the nature park also belong to the European  protected area Weinviertler Klippenzone  ( FFH , AT1206A00 , 2011, 3,185 ha), which protects the most important ecosystems and habitats of the Waschbergzone in Austria.

Natural sights

The grain wheel ( Agrostemma githago ) is the symbol of the Leiser Nature Park.
Cave in the Leiser Mountains

The specialty of the nature park is the steppe-like dry grass , which is caused by the freshwater limestone soil (lime substrate steppe ). The lime is very rich in clearly recognizable fossils . Especially in autumn, when the fields are plowed, even as a layman you can collect rocks with fossilized mussels or ammonites . There are some limestone cliffs in the nature park.

Built sights

  • A lookout tower was built on Oberleiser Berg in the area of ​​the nature park . On the ground floor of this facility there is an exhibition room that provides information about the 6000 year old settlement history of this place. In the immediate vicinity of the observation tower, the foundations of the Stone Age buildings ( Celtic settlement Oberleiserberg ) and the foundations of an early medieval church were marked on the ground.
  • On the Buschberg there is a refuge, the Buschberghütte .
  • In Simonsfeld there is a farmer's market selling regional products.
  • In Dörfles near Ernstbrunn there is Ernstbrunn Palace with an important landscape park, there is also the Ernstbrunn Wildlife Park , which also houses the Wolf Science Center , an important wolf research center.

Legal sources

Web links

Commons : Leiser Berge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Some parts of the nature park are not in the landscape protection area.
  2. ↑ European nature reserve Weinviertel cliff zone. naturland-noe.at
  3. ↑ A little outside the nature park zone in the landscape protection area

Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '  N , 16 ° 24'  E