Chess forest

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 36 ″  N , 13 ° 11 ′ 8 ″  E

Relief map: Upper Austria
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Upper Austria

The Schachawald is a forest area near Moosbach in the Innviertel of Upper Austria .

Location and landscape

The forest is located in the Inn and Hausruckviertel hill country around 12 kilometers southeast of Braunau am Inn at the northern foot of the Kobernaußerwald . It extends about 3½ kilometers in a north-south direction and 2½ kilometers west-east between Weng im Innkreis and Treubach , east of Moosbach. It lies almost entirely on the municipality of Moosbach; the southern tip belongs to Treubach. Together with the Gaugsham Forest to the east , it forms the largest closed forest area in the Innviertel hill country. It has its highest point in the Schloßberg  (approx.  440  m above sea level ) near the village of Schacha.

As a forest forest, the forest consists almost exclusively of spruce trees, only in the northeast is a small part of mixed deciduous and coniferous forest.

history

The name is the bairisch frequent letters from Schachen ( Old High German  scahho '), mostly as wood forest rest of the deforestation that -Forest , attached is probably due to the local Schacha, himself originally called after the forest later.

In the Middle Ages, an extensive forest area stretched between the Gaugshamer and Schachawald on the one hand and the Kobernaußerwald and Hausruck . The area from Treubach to Lohnsburg was only cleared in the High Middle Ages , so that the Schachawald became a forest island. This clearing zone is marked by the -eck , -schlag and -reut names, the -ed names indicate older, repopulated settlement areas.

Leisure, culture and sights

The forest is an important local recreation area and has numerous hiking trails through it.

Special features are:

  • Keltenschanze Moosbach , near Hufnagl, an old rampart
  • Burgstall Schloßberg above the Keltenschanze, abandoned castle
  • Eustachius , a Marterl, in the middle of the forest

Schachawald wind energy priority zone

In 2011, the Schachawald priority zone was identified with the Upper Austria wind power master plan. According to the assessment by the wind energy working group of the state government, an expansion of wind energy appears economically, ecologically and also in terms of landscape protection to be justifiable.

A project with 4 systems was rejected in 2012 by the municipality of Moosbach because of the lack of benefits for the local population.

The Gaugshamerwald is also intended as a priority zone.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Pfleger (arrangement), u. a .: Landscape survey of the municipality of Moosbach . Final report; Series of natural space mapping Upper Austria , on behalf of the Province of Upper Austria, nature conservation department - natural space mapping Upper Austria. Kirchdorf an der Krems 2006, 2.3 Part 3: Large forest "Schachawald" , p. 15 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ). ; Harald Pfleger (arrangement), u. a .: Landscape survey of the municipality of Treubach . Final report. Kirchdorf an der Krems 2006, 2.4 Large Forests “Schachawald” and “Gaugshamer Wald” , p. 17 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ). Maps in each volume.
  2. ↑ Kurt Kriso: The Kobernaußerwald under the influence of humans . A study of forest history. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austria. Museum association . 106th volume. Linz 1961, Fig. 2. Small overview map of the settlement process around the Kobernaußerwald , p. 273 and text p. 276 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, there p. 7, 10 and 66 ff - full article p. 269–338; with overview V. Chronological overview of the history of the Kobernaußerwald and its foreland , P. 332 ff).
  3. ↑ Lost Places , No. 100, Sagen.at
  4. ↑ Eustachius ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberoesterreich.at archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , oberoesterreich.at;
    Eustachius - Upper Austria , tiscover.com
  5. ↑ Wind power master plan Upper Austria . Office of Upper Austria. State government - Environment and Water Management Directorate - Environment Protection Department: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at > Environment> Energy
  6. ↑ See working group wind energy: Wind power master plan priority zones ( Memento from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . Map, January 2012 (pdf, land-oberoesterreich.gv.at; 1.3 MB).
  7. ↑ Profit only for a few? The community rejects the planned wind power plant. Four wind turbines planned in Moosbach are not approved. Report by OÖ Nachrichten, by Dieter Seitl, quoted in windstill.at, June 19, 2012.