Precious Anniversary Route Herzogenburg

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Created as a citizen participation project for the 90th city anniversary, the walking route planted with fruit trees and shrubs near the city center fulfills several aspects. Above all, it promotes encountering and moving in the urban cultural landscape and conveys interesting ecological knowledge about the varieties themselves as well as about the insect world through signage. Gift trees for residents' anniversaries created initial relationships with the trees. Shady rest areas on a stone wall or under old trees offer opportunities to experience the changes throughout the year from fragrant blossoms in spring to the first ripening of some seemingly exotic fruits. Mayberry, pawpaw, heartnut, seedless damson & Co aim to arouse interest, be eaten and loved.

When the color play of the leaves in autumn signals the approaching winter and the fruits are eaten or processed for storage, the hiker and fruit lover can think about the time of propagation of their favorite by noble shoots and register for pruning courses. The resilient varieties also represent an important genetic reserve, which is expanded and secured in a network with interested parties. Processing and tasting of fruits are also to be given attention in the coming years.

Výchozí bod trasy

ÖBB stop Wielandsthal

Cílový bod trasy

ÖBB stop Wielandshtal

Popis trasy Precious Anniversary Route Herzogenburg

At the ÖBB Wielandsthal stop, after the railway underpass by the information board, you will find the starting point of the route. Guests are welcomed by currant variations near the railway embankment and a row of columnar plums on a public flowerbed maintained within the framework of the Herzogenburg green sponsorship at the information board. Following Josef Haider Street, you encounter along the settlement street an apple berry (Aronia) and two pawpaws. At the end of the street, turn north and reach the "Miniature Orchard" station on the field path with a first rest bench amidst apple and pear trees. Alongside the railway, discover the thinned, natural windbreak hedge with early blooming fruit bushes for bees, butterflies, and walkers. At the railway crossing, head west along the roadside path with sea buckthorn variations and, after turning by the three individual settlement houses, to the "Pear-Cherry in Company" station and the young nut-chestnut-almond avenue. Following this, you reach the cellar lane - a field path with an old high-crowned fruit tree avenue that you pass through heading south. A dry stone arena by the "Old Vine Nursery" and the surrounding old and new damsons invite you to rest. After the rest area, about 200 m straight ahead south, the flowering meadow with pear and rowanberry begins at the fork. On the way east, the station "Peach, Apricot & Co" follows and offers a beautiful distant view of Schneeberg. The further stations lie again in the settlement area, on Blausteiner Street, and exemplify how public flowerbeds with fruit-bearing shrubs like hawthorn, dwarf almond and sour cherries, Nanking cherry, and dwarf rowanberry are maintained and used by citizens. At the railway crossing at the end of the street, the choice opens up: back to the starting point or to the city center - to the town hall square.