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13-662: The Hohe Wand region comprises a rock formation with its surrounding area, situated on the Hohe Wand mountain in Austria, that is protected as a nature park . It is located in the Gutenstein Alps in the state of Lower Austria . The area forms the eastern edge of the Alps as it transitions to the Pannonian Plain and Vienna Basin . Its bedrock consists of limestone . The nature park
26-513: A head for heights . In this area are most of the over 700 climbing routes of all levels of difficulty; there are also numerous Klettersteigs . There are 225 caves in the area of the Hohe Wand. The Unicorn Cave near Dreistetten is accessible to the public as a show cave . Due to its location on the edge of the Vienna Basin and its accessibility by car, there are 3 popular take-off points on
39-469: A height of 1,132 m. It is one of Vienna's Hausberge . It derives its name, which means "High Wall", from the steep rock faces on its south and southeast side. The high plateau is about 8 km long and stretches from the area of the Plackles peak in the southwest to the so-called Wandeck in the northeast. The plateau of the Hohe Wand may be accessed over a toll road built in 1931/32 that branches off
52-477: A rock formation with its surrounding area, situated on the Hohe Wand mountain in Austria, that is protected as a nature park . It is located in the Gutenstein Alps in the state of Lower Austria . The area forms the eastern edge of the Alps as it transitions to the Pannonian Plain and Vienna Basin . Its bedrock consists of limestone . The nature park is easily accessible, but charges are levied for certain facilities and for access by car. The nature park
65-582: Is easily accessible, but charges are levied for certain facilities and for access by car. The nature park is located in the municipalities of Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl , Bad Fischau-Brunn , Hohe Wand and Höflein an der Hohen Wand . It is also part of a European protected area, the Northeastern Perimeter Alps, and the Hohe Wand-Dürre Wand Nature Reserve. The Hohe Wand is a wooded plateau whose flora and fauna lie in
78-451: Is located in the municipalities of Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl , Bad Fischau-Brunn , Hohe Wand and Höflein an der Hohen Wand . It is also part of a European protected area, the Northeastern Perimeter Alps, and the Hohe Wand-Dürre Wand Nature Reserve. The Hohe Wand is a wooded plateau whose flora and fauna lie in the transition zone influenced on the one hand by the Alps and on the other by
91-563: The Pannonian Plain . Its rocky cliffs, up to 230 metres high, drop away to the southeast, exposed to the so-called "New World". In the limestone rock are several caves, both large and small, such as the Cserny Cave near the Felsenpfad and the Unicorn Cave , a show cave near Dreistetten . There has long been a tourist infrastructure on the plateau. In the 1930s, a public road up to the plateau
104-576: The Hohe Wand for paragliders and hang gliders . The most popular of these is the eastern one, the Oststartplatz , the most challenging and the one most used by hang gliders is the southern one, the Südstartplatz ; there is also the less used Almfrieden Startplatz . The Hohe Wand is especially suitable for flying due to its south-to-east wind situations and is also the local mountain for the Viennese. On
117-530: The plateau there is a large number of mountain inns and Alpine huts, but also numerous weekend houses , especially in Wanddörfl. Part of the Hohe Wand has been placed under protection as the Hohe Wand Nature Park , but the name is used to market tourist attractions, some of which have been heavily criticised as being incompatible with a nature park (e.g. the "Skywalk" observation platform that juts out from
130-578: The plateau. In the 1930s, a public road up to the plateau was hewn out of the rock. There even used to be a chairlift to the area; it is now closed. On the plateau itself are the following facilities: Hohe Wand (mountain) The Hohe Wand is a mountain ridge in Lower Austria and is part of the Gutenstein Alps . It lies west of Steinfeld in the Vienna Basin ; its highest peak (the Plackles) attains
143-530: The road between Stollhof and Maiersdorf. From 1965 until it was dismantled in 1994 there was also a double chairlift from Grünbach to the Plackles summit. Easy, but little used, hiking trail runs from the Dürnbach valley, from Grünbach and from the "rear side", from Miesenbach , up the mountain. Most of the climbs on the southern and southeastern sides are more challenging, requiring sure-footedness and, in places
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#1733086154641156-444: The rocks). The following paths and climbs are listed in order beginning from those southwest of the Hohe Wand (the southern end of the rock faces) then via the mainly eastwards oriented rock faces, the north and northwest and back to the southwest (i.e. anti-clockwise). Hohe Wand Nature Park 47°50′02″N 16°02′53″E / 47.834°N 16.048°E / 47.834; 16.048 The Hohe Wand region comprises
169-423: The transition zone influenced on the one hand by the Alps and on the other by the Pannonian Plain . Its rocky cliffs, up to 230 metres high, drop away to the southeast, exposed to the so-called "New World". In the limestone rock are several caves, both large and small, such as the Cserny Cave near the Felsenpfad and the Unicorn Cave , a show cave near Dreistetten . There has long been a tourist infrastructure on
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