Zinkenbach Peninsula

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Zinkenbach Peninsula
Wolfgangsee2007.jpg
The Wolfgangsee with peninsula (left), Schafberg
Geographical location
Zinkenbach Peninsula (State of Salzburg)
Zinkenbach Peninsula
Coordinates 47 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E
Waters 1 Wolfgangsee
Waters 2 Zinkenbach
length 2 km
width 3.5 km

The Zinkenbach peninsula is a peninsula of Lake Wolfgang in the Salzburger Salzkammergut .

Location, landscape and places

View of the Zinkenbach peninsula from St. Gilgen (am Plombergstein )

The peninsula is the alluvial fan of the Zinkenbach , which flows from the Osterhorn group of the Salzkammergut Mountains and the Salzburg Pre-Alps as the main feeder into Lake Wolfgang. This mouth area, which is 3½ kilometers wide, forms the narrow part of the lake, which is less than 250 meters wide. As a result, the Wolfgangsee is divided into two parts, the St. Gilgen - Rieder Obersee and the St. Wolfgang - Strobler Untersee.

The Zinkenbach forms the municipal boundary. The localities and cadastral communities Gschwand von Sankt Gilgen and Gschwendt von Strobl are located on the peninsula .

At the foot of the mountain - to the east - the town of Brunn is located below the walls of the Troiferberg  ( 883  m above sea level ), a foothill of the Zwölferhorn , Abersee (formerly Zinkenbach) where the Zinkenbach on the Breitenberg  ( 1260  m above sea level ) from the mountain breaks, and Gschwendt on the Bruneggwand (approx.  700  m above sea level ), a gate of the Bleckwand . In the interior of the peninsula there are still Langgassen and Reith to the left of the Zinkenbach . The shore of the peninsula stretches from the village of Franzosenschanze on the northwestern edge of the peninsula, where the Troiferberg breaks off directly into the lake, via Gschwand , Farchen , Stockach , and the banks of Reith across the Zinkenbach estuary to Forsthub on the eastern edge. Here the peninsula merges with the very flat south-east shore of the lake around the Blinklingmoos without any distinctive delimitation .

traffic

The Wolfgangsee Straße  (B158) crosses the peninsula, with a generous bypass of the towns (km 32–36) and a junction for Abersee and Reith without crossing. In the west, a local road leads via Gschwand to Farchen. The road runs along the Zinkenbach through Reith. In the east, the only 1.15 km long Gschwendter Landesstraße  (L243) leads to Forsthub. Otherwise there are only small access roads, there is no continuous road along the shore.

The landing stage of the Wolfgangsee-Schifffahrt is in Forsthub - which is why the access road is also designated as a state road. There is a transfer point to St. Wolfgang / Ried on the banks of the Reither.

In the past, the Ischlerbahn (Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn, SKGLB) also crossed the peninsula (1891–1957), the route from Forsthub, where the St. Wolfgang station was formerly located, to the north of the B158 junction is still available. From there, the B158 bypass, which previously ran directly through Abersee (Zinkenbach), was relocated.

Geology, hydrography and nature

The Zinkenbach is a torrent that is only 6½ kilometers long and can suddenly carry large amounts of water. Its lower course on the peninsula falls - similar to the northern Italian torrentes - otherwise dry, the water seeps into the subsoil and a gravel surface up to 20 meters wide remains.

The Wolfgangtal follows a WNW – OSO trending massive disturbance in alpine construction, the Wolfgangsee disturbance . This fault is very old and was already filled with sediments in Gosau times during the formation of the Alps ( Middle Cretaceous , roughly 100 million years ago). It was then deeply excavated from the Wolfgangsee glacier, one of the two branches of the Traungletscherzunge of the Dachstein glacier . The Wolfgangsee is at its deepest point between the Litzlwand near Lueg and the Falkensteinwand 114 meters deep, the Untersee up to 63 meters. The Zinkenbach drains a large part of the central Osterhorn group and transports large amounts of bed load . Together with the smaller alluvial funnel of the Dillbach from the Schafberg opposite, the lake is almost completely narrowed, at its narrow point it is only a good 20 m deep. Therefore, in the distant future, the lake will be divided into two parts by the Zinkenbach peninsula.

On the peninsula lies the Staudachwald, one of the few larger still closed forest areas on the valley floor. The lower Zinkenbach has a good alluvial forest that extends to the lake. Both forest types have become relatively rare in the densely populated Salzkammergut. At Abersee there is an arboretum that shows the typical vegetation communities of the area. The entire peninsula, with the exception of the direct settlement areas of Abersee, Gschwendt and Reith, belongs to the Schafberg – Salzkammergutseen landscape protection area  (LSG 46). With the exception of the Zinkenbach estuary, the shore of the peninsula is largely smelted and denatured with bathing areas.

Individual evidence

  1. Arboretum on Lake Wolfgang. Holiday region Wolfgangsee. In: wolfgangsee.salzkammergut.at, accessed on May 15, 2020.