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Laaer Forest

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Laaer Forest

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Location: Vienna Woods, Lower Austria, Austria

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1. Liesingbach River – City Hiking Trail 7 loop from Altes Landgut

14.3km

03:45

120m

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

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2. Liesingbach River – City Hiking Trail 7 loop from Unterlaa

16.1km

04:13

130m

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

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3. Laaer Wald – Bohemian Prater loop from Troststraße

9.47km

02:28

70m

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

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Intertronic und Sonja 🎄🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

August 20, 2022

In the abandoned brick pits, the typical vegetation of standing water with aquatic plants, reed belts, willows and poplars can be found today.

The natural vegetation of the Laaer Berg was warmth-loving, loose downy oak forests. Small remnants of these downy oak forests still exist today. They are protected as a natural monument.

The Laaer Wald recreation area is an important habitat for numerous animal species.

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Christine 🚶‍♀️ 📷 🌏

March 23, 2022

The largest part of the Laaer Berg was originally largely forest-free and was home to a Pannonian flora that is unique in Vienna. Due to the juxtaposition of dry grassland and wet locations, there was an extraordinary wealth of species. As early as 1905, when Vienna's green belt was being planned, the intention was to reforest 234 hectares of forest on the Laaer Berg. However, this project was only started in 1953 with a delay of around 50 years on an area of 40 hectares. Due to the geological condition and dryness of the gravel soil, however, there were severe failures and after three years only a tenth of the trees that had been raised were still alive. As a result, the city, which did not want to be dissuaded from the project, had large trenches dug with excavators, filled with earth and the trees planted there artificially watered at great expense. From 1956 to 1970, over 270,000 trees and bushes were reforested here. It was only in 1982 that the now well-grown forest was made accessible to the public. From today's nature conservation point of view, the then well-intentioned afforestation and destruction of the unique dry vegetation is consistently viewed negatively.

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Wandertiger

June 7, 2022

Nice recreation area near the bohemian Prater.

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Laaer Forest

1. Liesingbach River – City Hiking Trail 7 loop from Altes Landgut

2. Liesingbach River – City Hiking Trail 7 loop from Unterlaa

3. Laaer Wald – Bohemian Prater loop from Troststraße

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