Rastplatz Mühlviertelblick

Rest area Mühlviertelblick near Steyregg
Indoor forest and carpenters...
The montane beech (fir-spruce mixed) forest is the main natural forest type in the region. The tall forests look like large halls. This forest type was and is endangered by intensification of utilisation and conversion to spruce forests. Unfortunately, there are hardly any near-natural mixed forests left. One exception is the area around Linz. Large, vigorous, beech-dominated forests have been preserved here in large forest estates and farm forests. The large forests lack the historical overexploitation and thus represent valuable remnants of this forest type. The undergrowth includes woodrush, wood hawkweed and wallflower. Old-growth beech islands are important for the black woodpecker, for example, which likes to make its home in free-standing beech trees.

Many wolves once roamed the Pfenningberg. The Danube legend "Der mit dem Wolf geigt" (The one who fiddles with the wolf) tells how a tailor escaped with his life one night when he encountered a wolf.