Biosphere Park Wienerwald (BPWW) Core zones Lower Austria

This data layer is based on the

• Ordinance on the core and care zones of the Biosphere Park Wienerwald, NÖ LGBl. No 53/2019 — Issued on 2 July 2019

The Biosphere Park Wienerwald (BPWW) consists of a Viennese and Lower Austrian part, with the Lower Austrian part corresponding to the Wienerwald Landscape Conservation Area, which comprises areas of the following 51 political communities:
Alland, Altenmarkt an der Trieste, Altlengbach, Asperhofen, Bad Vöslau, Baden, Berndorf, Brand-Laaben, Breitenfurt near Vienna, Brunn am Gebirge, Eichgraben, Gaaden, Gablitz, Gießhübl, Gumpoldskirchen, Guntramsdorf, Hainfeld, Heiligenkreuz, Hinterbrühl, Hirtenberg, Judenau-Baumgarten, Kaltenleutgabe, Kaumberg, Klausen-Leopoldsdorf, Klosterneuburg, Königstetten, Kottingbrunn, Laab im Walde, Leobersdorf, Maria Enzersdorf, Maria-Anzbach, Mauerbach, Mödling, Neulengbach, Neulengbach, Neustift-Innermanzing, Perchtoldsdorf, Pfaffstätten, Pottenstein, Pressbaum, Purkersdorf, Sieghartskirchen, Sooß, St. Andrä-Wördern, Traiskirchen, Tulbing, Tulln an der Donau, Tullnerbach, Weissenbach an der Trieste, Wienerwald, Wolfsgraben, Zeiselmauer-Wolfpassing

In the core zones, nature has priority, for this reason forest management has been discontinued and the core zones become, in the sense of process nature protection, left to themselves. For more details, see https://www.bpww.at/de/artikel/kernzonen

In core zones, the dedication of land as a building land or as a traffic area within the meaning of the NÖ ROG 2014 is prohibited. In the case of relocations of land within core zones, only the types of grassland deforestation, agriculture and forestry, wasteland/eco-area and free-holding areas are allowed.
The 27 core zones cover around 5.100 ha of the Lower Austria share of the BPWW (total area of the BPWW in Lower Austria: 95.100 ha).