Sandstein-Wienerwald natural park

The Natural Park Sandstone Vienna Woods is a subdivision of the Vienna Woods and is located in the municipality of Purkersdorf in Lower Austria, he is asked and all year round freely accessible under protection. The approximately 76 -acre nature park is immediately adjacent to the urban area of ​​Vienna, its highest point is the Rudolfshöhe with 475 m.

Natural Attractions

The range of the sandstone Wienerwald is dominated by beech forest.

Built sights

There is a nature center, the so-called Vienna Woods house with exhibition space, including the Duck huts in the Vienna Woods, a kind of her retirement for retired forestry workers to the 19th century and a wooden laboratory as well as deer, red deer, wild boar enclosure and a petting zoo. Furthermore, there is a nature trail in which both plants and different stones are described and begins opposite the railway station " Purkersdorf - Gablitz " and after about 1.5 km ends at the Nature Centre.

On the Rudolfshöhe was built in 1977 to a 28.5 meter high wooden observation tower from the Natural Park Association " Sandstone Vienna Woods " and completely renovated in 1999 and renovated in 2009.

Was about one kilometer west-north- west is 425 meters high Schoeffel stone on its summit, a memorial stone in honor of the " Saviour of the Vienna Woods " Joseph Schoeffel built ( see figure).