Salzkammergut Pre-Alps

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The Salzkammergut Pre-Alps are one of 41 Upper Austrian spatial units and are located in the Salzkammergut .

location

The spatial unit comprises the southern part of the Kirchdorf and Gmunden districts and a small part of the Vöcklabruck district . The larger part in southern Upper Austria consists of five separate areas, the sixth part is in the southwest.

The size of the Salzkammergut Pre-Alps is 846.18 km² and is located in the northern Limestone Alps . The deepest area is around 430  m above sea level. A. at Gmunden . One of the highest elevations in the area is the Kasberg at 1747  m above sea level. A.

The following municipal areas are mainly or entirely in the Salzkammergut Pre-Alps (in alphabetical order): Bad Goisern , Bad Ischl , Ebensee , Grünau , Klaus , St. Wolfgang , Steinbach am Attersee .

The spatial unit is surrounded by the following Upper Austrian spatial units (clockwise, starting in the north): Attersee-Mondsee basin , Traun and Atterse flysch mountains , Almtaler and Kirchdorfer flysch mountains , Traun-Enns-Riedelland , lower Almtal , Sengsen mountains , Windischgarstner basins and limestone High alps . The spatial unit is divided into six sub-areas by the spatial units of the Salzkammergut-Talungen , Steyr- and Teichltal and Attersee-Mondsee-Basin .

Characteristic

  • Low mountain range with extensive primeval landscape character in higher elevations. The mountain landscape is clearly structured ( karst stock and mountain ridge ). The peaks usually reach heights between 1000 and 1400 meters above sea level, rarely above 1700 meters.
  • Mighty rubble fans can be found in the valley head at the foot of the Dead Mountains .
  • Many (smaller) nutrient-poor lakes, even at high altitudes, exist and serve tourism.
  • Largely closed forest cover with spruce and larch forests , sometimes with a high proportion of beech . The forest is managed with clear- cutting, and there is also a dense network of forest roads.
  • Near-natural forests (predominantly beech) can usually only be found in undeveloped locations. In these steep slopes, the alpine flora exists far into the valley ( pine bushes , dwarf shrub heaths , upholstered sedge lawns , limestone meadows, dry rock meadows).
  • The water system is sometimes drying up and has a strong bed load management (bed load barriers). The torrents have a pronounced relocation dynamic. The core areas of the limestone ( dolomite ) are largely free of water.
  • There are many significant moors and wetlands in the inner Salzkammergut in particular .
  • The room unit has many high alpine meadows (e.g. Kasbergalm at around 1700 meters above sea level).
  • The grassland is only used intensively in a few valley locations ( Almtal , Steyrlingtal , Lackergraben).
  • There are very few permanent settlements, especially in the Steyrlingtal. Usually you will only find alpine huts and refuges as well as forest and guest houses.
  • Individual ski areas and hiking tourism are available.

literature

  • Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Nature Conservation Department (Ed.): Nature and Landscape / Guiding Principles for Upper Austria. Volume 32: Salzkammergut-Voralpen spatial unit . Linz 2007 ( land-oberoesterreich.gv.at [PDF; accessed on December 1, 2014]).

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