nature - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2000 - 7 Shilling

The brand image shows the Sonnblickkees with the Granatspitze (3,086 m), the Stubacher Sonnblick (3,088 m) and the Alpinzentrum Rudolfshütte near the Weißsee in the national park community Uttendorf im Pinzgau. The glaciers are the landscape-defining highest floor of the high mountains of the Hohe Tauern, whose natural and cultural landscape is today in its most beautiful part national park. The Alpine glaciers have generally melted back since the middle of the 19th century. Thus, the glacier end of the Sonnblickkees reached around 1850 still in the at that time natural and not pent up Weißsee into it. The Sonnblickkees represents a glacier on which measurements have been taken for many years. The alpine center Rudolfshütte not only serves as a base for research but is also an internationally renowned training center for alpine sports. Despite ambitious conservation projects, the fight between Schützen and Nützen in Stubachtal was decided in favor of hydropower and tourist development. Only part of the Tauernpark, founded in 1921, which also includes the Wiegenwald, was included in the project "Nationalpark Hohe Tauern" in 1984. The Alpinzentrum Rudolfshütte and the Weißsee, which was dammed in 1953, point to the use of this natural space by humans.