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The Ibmer Moor, named after the district of Ibm in the Upper Austrian municipality of Eggelsberg, together with the Bürmoos and the Weidmoos in Salzburg, forms the largest contiguous moor landscape in Austria. The most important bog types are found close together on around 2,000 hectares. The moor itself is strictly protected, visitors have to walk through the area on a footbridge in order not to endanger the sensitive flora and fauna, but also themselves.
Peat cutting and drainage in earlier centuries have damaged the up to 12,000-year-old moor, especially in the Salzburg parts of Bürmoos and Weidmoos, the peat deposits have largely been depleted, as one learns in Maria Wimmer’s moor tours. In the Weidmoos, however, a 35-hectare body of water was created that has developed into a bird paradise.
Source: Nachrichten
