Change of Land Use at the “Rindfleischberg”

Klein-Pöchlarn 1929, Source: NÖLB Topographische Sammlung Klein-Pöchlarn 1929, Source: NÖLB Topographische Sammlung
Klein-Pöchlarn 1929, Source: NÖLB Topographische Sammlung Klein-Pöchlarn 1929, Source: NÖLB Topographische Sammlung

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.