Klein-Pöchlarn 1929, Source: NÖLB Topographische Sammlung
Change of Land Use at the “Rindfleischberg”
The IGLR's contribution to a nature conservation project in the municipality of Klein-Pöchlarn (Lower Austria) investigates land use in a former wine-growing area in the 18th and 19th century.
https://www.ruralhistory.at/en/projects/since-2016/land-use-change-rindfleischberg
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The IGLR's contribution to a nature conservation project in the municipality of Klein-Pöchlarn (Lower Austria) investigates land use in a former wine-growing area in the 18th and 19th century.
Funding / Initiators
DI Reinhard Kraus, www.nattracks.at / Marktgemeinde Klein-Pöchlarn
Duration
February 2019
Principal Investigator
Ulrich Schwarz-Gräber
Researcher
Martin Bauer
Short Description
This study contributes to a Nature Conservation project in Klein-Pöchlarn (Lower Austria) by focusing on land-use change in a certain local area, the so-called “Rindfleischberg”. As data from the Franciscan Cadastre (1817–1835) illustrate, viniculture has been gradually abandoned at the “Rindfleischberg”. The former vineyards which had existed since the Middle Ages were transformed into in arable land, grassland, and forest areas. The project report facilitates a better understanding of how historical land management has shaped contemporary landscapes as well as fauna and flora.