Wienerwald

Wienerwald, range of mountainous, wooded hills, a spur of the Eastern Alps, in north-eastern Austria, near the city of Vienna. The highest point in the Wienerwald (Vienna Woods) is the Schopfl, with an elevation of 893 m (2,930 ft), at the southern end of the range. Apart from a little forestry and quarrying, the Wienerwald is given over almost entirely to small resorts within easy reach of Vienna. In the area is the town of Klosterneuburg, with a fine 12th-century Augustinian abbey, and the Lainzer Tiergarten, formerly a royal hunting reserve. The romantic scenery has been immortalized by the composer Johann Strauss the Younger in his waltz “Tales from the Vienna Woods” (1868).