Das Museum – Holztrift- und Forstmuseum Schöpflklause

The location of the Holztriftmuseum in the middle of the "Inner Vienna Woods", the largest contiguous forest area in the Vienna Woods Biosphere Reserve, offers a feel-good place away from noise and air pollution

The Schöpflklause wood drift and forestry museum was set up in 2005 by the Klausen-Leopoldsdorf village renewal association and has been run by volunteers ever since. The museum guide, local chronicler and local historian of Klausen-Leopoldsdorf uses models, exhibits, documents and pictures to explain the use of the Vienna Woods over the past centuries. Of particular importance in the documentation is the timber rafting area founded in Klausen-Leopoldsdorf in 1667 under Emperor Leopold I, which is one of the most important engineering achievements of the pre-industrial era with its final construction of 14 chutes, an operating time of 272 years and a total timber floating capacity of 10 million cubic meters. The timber rafting area was used to transport firewood logs from the inner Vienna Woods to the collecting rake in Baden St. Helena using the power of water at low cost and independently of roads. Onward transportation to the destination of Vienna was carried out by wagons and from 1803 also by cargo ships via the Wiener-Neustädter Canal. The last drift took place in 1939.

The presentation of historical films about the timber drift complements the collection.