
Josef Schöffel fought against these plans and became finally famous as the " Saviour of the Vienna Woods". The Wienerwald was supposed to be deforested in 1870 a local politician and lobbyist called 19th Century: Wienerwald Vienna Woods go Nature Reserve These two hills offer great views on Vienna. Hills and valleys of the Wienerwald area range between 300 and 900 metres of altitude the most popular ones are those around the General introduction to the Wienerwald area and some "entry points" for walks in the Vienna Woods for those who approach them from Vienna. Nice and they offer an opportunity to enforce an i llusion of wilderness upon yourself if you want to escape from Vienna for a while. Personally, I quite like the Wienerwald compared to the industrialised suburbs of Vienna in the South and East, the Vienna Woods are

That being said, do not expect proper mountains from the Wienerwald. Northern Calciferous Alps, to be precise. The Wienerwald area comprises of hills that are the final "outposts" of the Alps - the


The Wienerwald embraces Vienna from the North to the South-East and is approximatelyĤ5 kilometres long and 20 to 30 kilometres wide, which sums up to approximately 100,000 hectares. In fact, the stretch of land isįar from being Austria′s most impressive piece of landscape - gentle hills with forests, but also densely populated with prosperous suburbs at varying degrees of attractiveness. It is a bit of a cliché to call the Vienna Woods or the Wienerwald area the "green lung of Vienna".
