Lower Austrian Pre-Alps

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The Lower Austrian Pre-Alps consist of hilly and dome-shaped rounded mountains and range from the Eisenwurzen to the Vienna Woods .

They are located in the flysch zone between the Lower Austrian Alpine foothills in the north and the Lower Austrian Limestone Alps in the south, where they extend in an east-west direction as a narrow band in some places only approx. 10 km and mainly consist of marls, slate and sandstones. all of which weather easily.

While the Upper Austrian Pre- Alps are still addressed as a separate mountain group in the Alpine Club division of the Eastern Alps , the Lower Austrian Pre-Alps are also assigned to the Ybbstal Alps , the Türnitz Alps and the Vienna Woods in terms of landscape . The mountain ranges along the line Steyr - Purgstall an der Erlauf - Kilb - Wilhelmsburg - Neulengbach can be described as foothills .

In terms of natural space, a distinction is made between the western flysch zone with the pre-Alps between Ybbs and Enns, the pre-Alps between Erlauf and Ybbs and the pre-Alps between Traisen and Erlauf, then the central flysch zone with the western flysch area and finally the eastern flysch zone (also: north-western Vienna forest) the Flyschwienerwald.

literature

• Nature Conservation Concept Lower Austria Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Nature Conservation Department, St. Pölten 2015