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The Moor and Peat Museum, which has won national and international awards, is unique in Europe. Among other things, it was awarded a European museum prize in Helsinki in 1991. As a complement to the Heidenreichsteiner Moor nature park, the museum aims to illustrate the formation of moors in Central Europe. The flora and fauna in these areas are presented, as is the economic use and medical importance of peat. Other sections are dedicated to nature conservation, fairy tales and legends relating to moorland landscapes. There is also a replica of a bog body, along with a description of the accidents that can become fatal in the moor.

Since 1987, only museum trains with steam locomotives have occasionally run on the narrow-gauge, 25-kilometer-long railway line between Gmünd and Litschau and its 13-kilometer-long branch line from Altnagelberg to Heidenreichstein. The railway connection was opened on July 3, 1900. Scheduled passenger traffic was discontinued in 1986, and freight traffic in 1992.

Heidenreichstein Castle is partially open to the public. It has been privately owned by the Kinsky family since 1961 and is still inhabited. Guided tours are offered, during which you can also look at some of the rooms inside the castle. The castle, like the whole town, owes its name to one of the first burgraves, who was called Heidenreich. The moated castle, the oldest part of which dates back to the second half of the 12th century, is considered a landmark of the town of 3,800 inhabitants.

Nupsi the field hamster

A huge granite remnant, impressive what shapes nature creates

The heart of the nature park is the raised moor near the town of Heidenreichstein in the northwestern Waldviertel. The open moor areas and the forest on the edge of the Winkelauer Pond bear witness to a vegetation history that goes back more than 10,000 years. Areas of peat moss, sundew and cotton grass give an idea of the original moorland landscape.

In the nature park, the preservation of the “moor” habitat has the highest priority alongside climate protection. Moors are not characterized by a very large variety of plants and animals, but by relatively few but extremely specialists, such as the northern moss damsel (a type of dragonfly) and the moor frog.