Bavarian Wildalm
The Bayerische Wildalm is an alpine pasture on the southeast flank of the Halserspitze in the Mangfall Mountains , in the municipality of the Upper Bavarian municipality of Kreuth , and neighboring the Wildalmfilz in Tyrol in the municipality of Brandenberg ( Kufstein district ) . The alpine pasture region, which, despite the name, is largely on Austrian territory, is one of the 33 areas in Germany and 19 in Austria currently protected by the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of international importance.
history
The exact time when the Alm was built is difficult to understand today. What is certain, however, is that it was tended by farmers from the Kreuther valley who were dependent on the Tegernsee monastery . Due to the location of the Alm directly on the border between the Kingdom of Bavaria and Austria-Hungary , there were repeated border disputes regarding the management law. In 1891 a commission from Innsbruck ( K. K. Baseload Removal and Regulatory State Commission) re-regulated the grazing rights of those alpine pastures, which, like the Bayerische Wildalm, lay on both Bavarian and Tyrolean territory. The Bavarian farmers were granted grazing rights from June 28th to September 28th for the entire Bavarian Wildalm.
Today the Bavarian Wildalm is accessible from the Austrian side by a forest road. It is still being managed . There is also a self-catering hut of the DAV - Oberland section on the site. The Austrian part of the Alm is now also known as the Sindelsdorfer Alm.
Importance from the point of view of nature conservation
The Wildalm is located between the Northern Pre-Alps , the Flysch Zone and the Northern Limestone Alps . Both the Austrian and the Bavarian part of the Alm are protected by the Ramsar Convention - an international agreement on wetlands, especially as a habitat for water birds and waders. Decisive for the nomination as a protected area was the existence of a high moor typical of the Limestone Alps and the occurrence of many threatened plant species. The area is a karst depression, the bog population of which is secured by regular flooding of a small stream and by seeping water from the slopes of the Polje . The stream seeps into the area of the Alm in a large and several small ponors . The reserve is home to typical moorland plants such as the beak sedge , the mud sedge and peat moss . In the south, the Wildalmfilz, which is also protected, connects to the Alm.
Details on the Ramsar protected areas:
| Austria | Germany | cross-border | |
|---|---|---|---|
| designation | Bavarian Wildalm and Wildalmfilz | Bavarian Wildalm | Austrian-Bavarian Wildalm |
| Ramsar area number: | 1489 | 1723 | - |
| Height: | 1430-1470 m | 1425-1470 m | 1425-1470 m |
| Surface: | 133 ha | 7 ha | 140 ha |
| Expulsion date: | December 15, 2004 | October 9, 2007 | August 7, 2008 |
literature
- Ramsar area "Bayerische Wildalm" (pdf, wetlands.org; 1.2 MB)
Web links
- Bavarian Wildalm and Wildalmfilz. In: Umweltbundesamt.at >> Environmental Issues >> Nature Conservation >> Protected Areas >> Ramsar Areas. Federal Environment Agency (UBA), accessed on July 6, 2010 .
- Bavarian Wildalm . In: Agricultural and cultural heritage database . Society for Agricultural History
Individual evidence
- ↑ As of February 2008
- ^ Community Kreuth (ed.): Das Kreuther Heimatbuch
- ^ German Alpine Association: Self-catering hut Bayerische Wildalm
- ^ The Annotated Ramsar List: Austria → Bayerische Wildalm and Wildalmfilz , ramsar.org
- ^ Transboundary Ramsar sites. In: ramsar.org> Documents. November 16, 2009, accessed June 2010 .
- ↑ Original name Austrian-Bavarian Wildalm
Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 12 ″ N , 11 ° 47 ′ 30 ″ E