Lainzer Tiergarten

One last piece of primeval Wienerwald - that is the Lainzer Tiergarten, which is located on the outskirts of the city. For many decades, this special recreation area has been a popular destination for city dwellers, but also for tourists from near and far. It is thanks to the unique cultural and natural landscape, the wealth of flora and fauna and the cultural-historical exhibitions in the Hermesvilla that relaxation, outdoor experiences and education can be ideally combined in the Lainzer Tiergarten.

The Lainzer Tiergarten is located in the west of the city of Vienna, in the eastern Vienna Woods. Its total area is 2,450 hectares - 1,945 hectares of which are forest areas. The enclosing wall of the Lainzer Tiergarten is around 22 kilometers long. From a geological point of view, this area can be assigned to the so-called flysch zone; Incidentally, characteristics of this zone are sandstone and marl rock, a clayey and heavy composition of the soil, as well as many ditches and streams - as you can find in the Lainzer Tiergarten.

The area of ​​the zoo is located in the border area of ​​the Pannonian climate in the east - characteristics here are high temperatures in summer and relatively little precipitation - and in the oceanic climate in the west - here low average annual temperatures and larger amounts of annual precipitation can be described as characteristic. Accordingly, there are also significant differences in temperature between the eastern and western parts of the Lainzer Tiergarten: the average temperature is around nine degrees Celsius, and the average annual precipitation is 750 millimeters.

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