Podyjí National Park

The Národní park Podyjí is a national park in the Czech Republic. It extends on the left bank between Thaya Znojmo and Vranov over a length of about 40 km.

By lying on the Austrian side Thaya Valley National Park it forms a bilaterally agreed unit.

Formation

The first conservation efforts date back already to the year 1979, when a large area of ​​103 square kilometers, has been put under protection. Since the area was immediately at the Iron Curtain, it was not publicly accessible and nature could develop undisturbed.

After the reunification in 1991, the nature reserve 164 Code 1991 was converted into a national park on July 1, 1991, the Government Regulation of the Czech Republic No, which incorporated an area of 63 km ². The actual protection area is 29 km ².

With the beginning of 2000 the national park was also decided on the right bank Thaya on the Austrian side; since then, a common reserve stretches on both territories, where you can move freely since the Schengen Agreement.

Location

The Thaya limited to the south of the Czech part of the national park by her up to 220 m deep in the Bohemian Massif carved valley. The Thaya has a meandering course here. The highest point of the park is 536 m nm, the lowest point is at 207 m nm

Flora

The park is wooded to about 84 %. In the West, fir and beech predominate. In the eastern part is more often found hornbeam and oak. But other, more rare types of wood can be found here, such as rock cherry, cornelian cherry, cotoneaster or juniper. In some locations you'll find the Common bladdernut, Alpenrose and the sycamore.

77 different specially protected plant species are also found here. Among them are Black Hellebore, Perennial silver leaf, wild cyclamen, mullein, cowbells, two color Iris, Türkenbundlilie and 18 different orchid plants.

Fauna

Through the thugs of oak forests in the Middle Ages created numerous pastures that are today inhabited by a large number of different insect species. However, a large number of mammals enlivened the landscape. So you can find otters, as well as Brandt's bat or field shrew. At the 152 bird species, of which two thirds nest here, as the black stork, hoopoe, honey buzzard, eagle owl or kingfisher live here.

At reptiles are the Aesculapian as the Eastern green lizard, found on the amphibian salamander and newt.

The most important fish are brown trout and grayling.