Hörfeld Moor

Name: Hörfeld Moor
Address: Liechtensteinstraße 3-5, Murau, Murau, 8850, AT
Telephone: +43 3532 2720

Mühlen

Current information

Hörfeld Moor - Ramsar nature reserve
Everything blooms, hums, hums and sings in the middle of the moor

May 31 and June 07 2024
Duration: 3-4 hours
Meeting point: 09:00 am, Emmi Antes Steg
Registration: with Ms. Pobatschnig (+43 650 2632264)

Tip: 30th anniversary celebration on Sunday, September 15, 2024!

The Hörfeld Moor nature reserve is a wetland of international importance. Located between Mühlen and Hüttenberg, it is home to 500 different species of butterflies and moths and 125 species of birds. A hiking trail leads around the moor and invites you to explore the mysterious originality of thousands of years of history.

The Hörfeld Moor wetland is home to over 500 species of butterflies, moths, and birds. A paved hiking trail leads around and through the moor and gives visitors an insight into its sensitive habitat.

The Hörfeld Moor is located south of Mühlen on the border between Styria and Carinthia in a depression carved out by the ice-age glaciers. Since then, a bog with adjacent wet meadows has developed.

Because of its importance for nature it was declared a European protected area. Thus, such pretty bog plants as the white-flowered fever clover, the pond horsetail, as well as the yellow-flowered marsh-blue-eye and the yellow-flowered tongue buttercup can be discovered. Shrubs and trees are always mixed in, such as the sloth tree and the bog birch. Grass frog, yellow-bellied toad and common toad find their spawning grounds with the small lakes. The flower-rich high shrubs provide the habitat for numerous, colorful butterflies, including the Austria-wide endangered large meadow bird and the border ringed mother-of-pearl butterfly. The Valerian fritillary butterfly with its orange-black pied wings is particularly pretty.

You can also observe more than 130 bird species: Whinchat, Common Rosefinch, Lapwing, Corncrake, Teal and Water Rail are some of them. The starting point is the parking lot on federal highway 92 south of Mühlen. To the southwest, the path leads directly into the moorland.