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Himmelteich Natural Monument

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Himmelteich Natural Monument

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Himmelteich Natural Monument

Name: Himmelteich Natural Monument
Rating: 2

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Location: Vienna, Austria

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1. Seestadt Aspern – Himmelteich Nature Monument loop from Seestadt

5.30km

01:20

10m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Himmelteich Nature Monument loop from Essling

4.11km

01:02

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Himmelteich Nature Monument – Seestadt Aspern loop from Aspern

8.21km

02:04

10m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Christine 🚶‍♀️ 📷 🌏

August 3, 2021

Heaven and hell are sometimes much closer together than one would biblically believe. And the devil is not always in the details, sometimes also in the big historical picture. A particularly vivid example can be found in deeper Transdanubia, not far from the so-called Seestadt Aspern. There is still water, an innocent piece of nature, as one could easily think, girdled contemplatively by reeds, water lilies in the middle: the sky pond. On the part of the Viennese city administration, however, the Himmelteich area is known under a rather infernal attribution: namely as "Altlast W3". In the municipal waste portal it reads as follows: “A former gravel pit was filled with approx. 150,000 m3 of household waste and construction rubble by 1970.” The associated “considerable risk to the groundwater” was averted between 1991 and 2001: among other things by “clearing the deposits and the contaminated subsoil ”. The redevelopment, in turn, was followed by the construction of a biotope, which we encounter today as if it had never been otherwise: so biotopic that it has now even been accredited as a natural monument. So much for the ultimately pleasant side of the Himmelteich story.

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Himmelteich Natural Monument

1. Seestadt Aspern – Himmelteich Nature Monument loop from Seestadt

2. Himmelteich Nature Monument loop from Essling

3. Himmelteich Nature Monument – Seestadt Aspern loop from Aspern

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