Peggauer Wall
The Peggauer Wand is a cave-rich wall of the limestone plateau of the Tanneben in Styria that slopes steeply towards the Murtal . It belongs to the "Central Styrian Karst", which belongs to the Grazer Bergland , and is located 20 km north of Graz , in Peggau , at an average altitude of about 410 meters. The largest of the caves is named Große Peggauer-Wand-Höhle (cave cadastre number 2836/39).
Animal bones from the last Ice Age and Paleolithic artifacts have been found in the caves.
natural reserve
Parts of the Peggauer Wand are protected areas according to Natura 2000 .
Already in 1956 as part of the landscape and to protect the landscape according to the Landscape Protection Ordinance of 1956, the Peggauer Wand was declared landscape protection area No. 42 ( Peggauer Wand - Lurgrotte ) in 1981 according to the Styrian Nature Conservation Act 1976. The peregrine falcon and the eagle owl have been identified as breeding birds. In the rocky dry grass of the wall there is a small occurrence of the zippammer and in the adjacent forest black woodpeckers , both birds on the red list .
In addition, several tunnels were built at the foot of the Peggauer Wand during the Second World War, one of which (the tunnel with the number IX) was designated as an animal protection area according to Natura 2000 in 1988 because it serves as a sleeping and wintering area for bats.
In 2006, a European protection area No. 26 was finally decreed by the state of Styria on the basis of the existing protected areas . In this Regulation the following bat species are causative mentioned: lesser horseshoe bat , greater horseshoe bat , lesser mouse-ear , Barbastelle , Schreiber's bat , Geoffroy's bat and greater mouse-eared , of the fowl of the peregrine falcon, the eagle owl and the black woodpecker, and some plant communities .
Web links
- Peggauer Wall at the Federal Environment Agency
- Natura 2000 area of the State of Styria ( Memento from November 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- Peggau Museum of Prehistory
Individual evidence
- ↑ The protective measures in the Tanneben area between Semriach and Peggau (Styria)
- ↑ Landscape protection area No. 42
- ↑ Stollen IX animal protection area
- ↑ European protected area No. 26
Coordinates: 47 ° 12 ′ 22.6 ″ N , 15 ° 20 ′ 58.1 ″ E