Wasserkar (Hochkönig)

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location near Werfen-Tenneck , State of Salzburg
Waters Wandbach (rises below)
Mountains Hochkönigstock
Geographical location 47 ° 27 '4 "  N , 13 ° 4' 27"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '4 "  N , 13 ° 4' 27"  E
Wasserkar (State of Salzburg)
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Type Kar , dry valley
rock Limes
height 1510  m above sea level A.
length 1.5 km
flora Remnants of the jungle
particularities former natural forest reserve

The Wasserkar is a high valley ( Kar ) in the Hochkönigstock near Tenneck (municipality of Werfen) , State of Salzburg . It harbors an important remnant of the jungle .

Location and landscape

The Wasserkar is a southern side valley of the Blühnbachtal in Pongau , which stretches northwards east of the Tenneck  ( 2435  m above sea level ). It is the karst headwaters of the Wandbach , which flows above Blühnbach Castle , but is entirely a dry valley . The Wandbach is so named because it only rises below the steep step that separates the Wasserkar from the Blühnbachtal. The deeply cut valley is framed by the Hochtenneck-Niedertenneck- ridge to the west and Floßkogel  ( 2437  m above sea level ) and Alblegg  ( 2361  m above sea level ) to the east. Towards the south, another steep step on the Fliegerköpfl separates the valley from the Karstplateu below the Übergossene Alm , the Hochkönig glacier.

Wasserkar natural forest

Due to the impassable location and because the Blühnbachtal was an imperial hunting ground for a long time and was not used for forestry purposes, a fairly natural forest could be maintained here. It is a larch forest that extends from a limestone slope rubble spruce forest to heights of 1350 to 1800 m.

In the 1980s, the forest was designated as a natural forest reserve , an international forest protection network based on contractual nature conservation ( no. ). With the creation of the extensive Kalkhochalpen nature reserve in 1983 ( NSG00012 ) and its declaration as a European protected area in 2006 ( AT3211012 / ESG00009 ), it was incorporated into its management plan with the consent of the owner, the Austrian Federal Forests (ÖBF) . It is no longer managed as a natural forest reserve.

Alpinism

The Wasserkar is completely pathless and can only be accessed with local knowledge. To the east above the Höhenweg leads from the Ostpreußenhütte to the Hochkönig, the Tenneck is usually climbed from the south - also without any markings - and it breaks off steeply to the Wasserkar.

literature

  • R. Wallmann: Forest analysis of the remainder of the jungle Wasserkar in the Blühnbachtal , diploma thesis, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 1982.
  • Eberhard Fugger: The Blühnbachtal. In yearbook of the quays. Kings Geologische Reichs-Anstalt 1907, issue 1 and 2, section Das Wasserkar , p. 99 ff (entire article p. 91–114, therein 9 ff; Webrepro , archive.org; pdf , landesmuseum.at).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On geology and karst hydrology Lit. Fugger: Das Blühnbachtal .
    Josef Goldberger: The karst development and rock break development on the Hochkönig . In: Mitteilungen des Salzburger Gesellschaft für Landeskunde , 93rd year of association 1953, there in particular Fig. 2 Profile H.Tenneck - Eibleck, not exaggerated , p. 143, PDF on ZOBODAT there p. 14.
  2. ↑ a b Heinrich von Barth had already addressed the question of access to the Hochkönig and freedom of movement in 1874: New Debate; special mediation proposal proposed by the hunter, accepted by me , from H. v. Barth: From the Northern Limestone Alps . 1874, Chapter VII. The Haagen Mountains (web text on bergruf.de, see also the travel description With a Blühnbacher hunter through the Hundskar to the mountain heights ff. Ibid.).