Local Cross-Sectoral Operational Plan - Pöttsching (Alpine-Carpathian Corridor- AT)

The pilot area Pöttsching represents a bottleneck in the real sense of the word, constituting a larger open land area between the woodland-dominated Leitha Mountains in the north and the Rosalia Mountains in the south. These ranges are offshoots of the Alps and form the most important connection to the Carpathians: the Alpine-Carpathian corridor. Hence, this area is also significantly important on the national and transnational levels. The studied bottleneck area is, therefore, of particular importance for wildlife migration and is highly sensitive due to intensive agricultural use, the proximity to the growing metropolitan areas of Wiener Neustadt, Eisenstadt as well as Mattersburg, and in addition the presence of the highway A3 and the expressways S4 and S31. To overcome these high-level roads, two green bridges were established as narrow passages within the area, which is also a bottleneck as a whole. These green bridges are, therefore, particularly critical points for maintaining corridor connectivity.