Upper Austria - Alpine Foreland

Between the Danube and the northern slopes of the Alps, in the Alpine foreland, are to be found the most fertile regions of Upper Austria and also its main industrial areas. In this zone unfolds the Innviertel, with low ranges of hills rising between beautiful valleys. Between the Innviertel and the Traunviertel lies the rather harsher Hausruckviertel, in which lignite is mined.