Salzkammergut valley

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The Salzkammergut valleys are one of 41 Upper Austrian spatial units and are located in the Salzkammergut .

location

The spatial unit covers the southern part of the Gmunden district and consists of two separate areas.

The size of the Salzkammergut valley is 127.14 km². The deepest area is the Traunsee at 423  m above sea level. A. at Gmunden . The highest elevations in the area are on the southern border to the neighboring spatial unit near Gosau at around 800  m above sea level. A.

The following municipal areas have a large proportion of the Salzkammergut valley (in alphabetical order): Bad Goisern , Bad Ischl , Ebensee , Gmunden and St. Wolfgang .

The spatial unit is surrounded by the following Upper Austrian spatial units (clockwise, starting in the northwest): Salzkammergut Voralpen , Traun and Atterseer Flysch Mountains , Ager-Traun Terraces , Traun Gorge , Traun-Enns-Riedelland , Almtaler and Kirchdorfer Flysch Mountains and Kalk-Hochalpen . The spatial unit of the Salzkammergut-Voralpen is divided into two sub-areas, the Traun / Ischl valley and the isolated Gosau valley .

The Salzkammergut valleys are divided into two natural landscape sub-units:

  • Bodies of water in the lakes
  • Cultural landscape and settlement area

Characteristic

  • Narrow river valleys surrounded by high, wooded mountain slopes. The banks of the valleys are almost continuously built, with only a few riparian forests. The feeder streams are close to nature.
  • The lakes (Traunsee, Wolfgangsee , Hallstättersee ) widen the valley. Their banks are often built up (jetty, promenades, harbors, bathing areas, ...) and thus impaired. The lakes have a specific fish fauna and excellent water quality. Only the steep, inaccessible east bank of the Traunsee ( Traunstein ) is undeveloped and has near-natural riparian forests.
  • The settlement in the valley area is dense with several centers (Hallstatt, Ischl, Ebensee, ...). These places are located on traditional traffic routes that have existed since the Hallstatt period .
  • Agriculture exists on the slope zones, where there are also few remains of wet and dry meadows . Cultural landscape elements are rare. The Ischl and Gosau valleys in particular are used for agriculture.
  • There are numerous surface waters and forest islands . The unit of space was created by glaciers.
  • The region is heavily used for tourism, such as boat and boat trips, bathing, fishing, city tourism, the show mine and cable cars .

literature

  • Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Nature Conservation Department (Ed.): Nature and Landscape / Guiding Principles for Upper Austria. Volume 31: Salzkammergut-Talungen room unit . Linz 2007 ( pdf [accessed February 17, 2017]).

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