Central Mühlviertel highlands

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The Central Mühlviertel highlands are one of 41 Upper Austrian spatial units and are mostly located in the Mühlviertel .

location

The spatial unit includes roughly all of the lower elevations in the south of the Rohrbach district with the exception of the Danube Valley, the southern part of the Urfahr-Umgebung district (excluding Haselgraben) and the southwest of the Freistadt district . A small part is located in the Kürnberger Forest south of the Danube.

The size of the Central Mühlviertel highlands is about 822.59 km². The area extends over a length of around 71 km and a maximum width of 19.6 km in the upper Mühlviertel and 17.7 km in the lower Mühlviertel . The deepest area is around 260  m above sea level. A. in St. Georgen and 265  m above sea level. A. in Walding. The highest elevation in the area is the Helmetzedter Berg near Ottenschlag at 924  m above sea level. A.

The following municipal areas are predominantly or entirely in the Central Mühlviertel highlands (starting in the west): Neustift , Hofkirchen , Niederkappel , Lembach , Hörbich , Rohrbach-Berg , Arnreit , Auberg , Altenfelden , Neufelden , St. Ulrich , Kirchberg , Kleinzell , St. Martin , Niederwaldkirchen , Herzogsdorf , St. Gotthard , Altenberg , Alberndorf , Haibach , Ottenschlag , Neumarkt , Freistadt , Kefermarkt , Lasberg , Unterweitersdorf , Hagenberg , Pregarten , Steyregg .

The spatial unit is surrounded by the following Upper Austrian spatial units (clockwise, starting in the north): Southern Bohemian Forest foothills , Leonfeldner Hochland , Freiwald and Weinsberger Wald , Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland , southern Mühlviertel outskirts , Linzer Feld and Danube Gorge and side valleys .

Characteristic

  • Flat-topped mountain and hill country largely between 500 and 700 m above sea level.
  • Agricultural and forest landscapes are predominant, but poor in near-natural cultural landscape elements. There are hardly any large, purely rural areas, but the landscape is still dominated by agriculture. Arable farming takes place in favorable locations, otherwise grassland predominates. There is a tendency towards afforestation of marginal land. Orchards are still widespread.
  • Lots of striking open valley landscapes with nutrient-poor wet meadows. Spring outlets exist on slopes and there are occasional fens. Meadows are extensively drained.
  • There are many small forests and only a few large forest areas. The spruce tree is dominant, but can hardly ever be found without some deciduous wood (at least at the edges). Remnants of forest with ash , maple and beech exist, and oak and hornbeam forests can be found in lower elevations . Hedges, small groups of trees and bushes are becoming rarer.
  • The middle reaches of the larger Mühlviertel brooks ( Kleine and Große Mühl , Rodl , Gusen , Feldaist ) are moderately deep. Streams outside of the villages largely unregulated and lined with near-natural gallery forests (black alder, broken willow, ash forests). Occasional freshwater pearl mussels. Source areas and headwaters often built in a drainage-like manner.
  • Many small and medium-sized towns, individual small towns. The settlements are fragmented, even in remote areas.
  • More or less pronounced day tourism.
  • Quarries are local, small and less important in terms of landscape.

literature

  • Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Nature Conservation Department (Ed.): Nature and Landscape / Guiding Principles for Upper Austria. Volume 41: Central Mühlviertel highlands room unit . Vienna and Linz 2007 ( pdf [accessed on February 18, 2017]).

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