Landschaftsschutzgebiet

Due to regulations, protected areas (landscape and nature conservation areas) are established by the nature conservation authority.

This occurs in limited areas where special protective regulations are required. For example, particular scenic beauty, extensive originality, or the presence of endangered or rare animals and plants are considered reasons for protection. Landscape protection areas are areas outside of closed settlements that either exhibit exceptional scenic beauty or are significant for recreation. In the state of Salzburg, not only the area around Lake Fuschl but also areas around all larger lakes and many mountain landscapes are protected. In all landscape protection areas, a permit is required for: Construction, placement of facilities Measures associated with soil disturbances, deposits, or fillings Camping or placing caravans outdoors Parking in free landscapes Setting buoys Mining of minerals Removal and impairment of significant individual trees, hedges, as well as the collection of larch branches within 50m along roads and marked paths. Any alteration of standing waters, including a 50m wide shoreline area As early as 1941, an area of 665.4 hectares in the basin of Lake Fuschl between Filbling in the south and Schober in the north was placed under protection. The last review of this regulation took place in 1985. The typical vegetation with reed grass meadows, rare orchids, buckthorn and oak stands, and a diverse flora and fauna around Lake Fuschl is to be largely protected. The purpose of protection is to preserve the scenic beauty as well as its significance for recreation and tourism. The nature reserve at Lake Fuschl The reedy moor on the western shore of Lake Fuschl was placed under protection on October 1, 1975. It covers an area of 100.6 hectares. It is considered a European biogenetic reserve. It lies on the western shore of the lake and extends from the outflow of the lake into a small basin landscape. Here one finds reed grass meadows, rare orchids, and wetland indicator species such as sundew, cotton grasses, sedges – reeds, and lily species. According to the report by Beier, Ehmer, and Künkele in 1986, here can be found, among others, blue monkshood (Aconitum napellus), common frog's bit (Alisma plantago-aquatica), peat sedge (Carex davalliana), flesh-colored and broad-leaved orchid (Dactylorhiza incarnata and majalis), marsh helleborine (Epipactis palustris), spring gentian (Gentiana verna), German gentian (Gentiana germanica), snow rose (Helleborus niger), white daffodil (Narcissus poeticus), yellow pond lily (Nuphar lutea), two-flowered forest orchid (Platanthera bifolia), and the troll flower (Trollius europaeus). To the northeast, there is a small woodland that exhibits the character of a moorland forest. Roe deer, foxes, and hares can be found here. It is an ornithological retreat where many bird species have been recorded in recent years. (See bird track) Types of habitats include floating leaf vegetation, reed belts, and reed zones, as well as reed grass meadows, nutrient-poor spruce forests, beech mixed forests, and spruce forests. The entire basin of Lake Fuschl is filled with morainic material. Underneath it lie limestones and main dolomite. The reedy moor located on the western shore of the lake emerged from former lake deposits at the end of the Ice Age, which were situated further west than today's shores of Lake Fuschl. Reed moors are limnogene moors. They originated from former lake deposits. According to Krisai, the distribution of reed moors is primarily limited to the area glaciated during the Last Glacial Maximum. (Krisai, 1983). Initially, organic material settled at the bottom of the lake, creating foul sludge. As more and more dead plants accumulated, oxygen deficiency occurred, preventing the organic material from rotting – the subhydratic mud formed. The shoreline became increasingly shallow, leading to the disappearance of the reed belt. Subsequently, it became a bog. On the slowly becoming boggy muddy water, floating mats emerged. The mud underneath solidified more and more, forming a lowland peat bog. Lowland peat bogs are typically only a few centimeters to decimeters thick. The waterway does not continue through the reedy moor but rather straight ahead, directly to the shores of Lake Fuschl.