Gstettnerboden#

Gstettnerboden (Gstettneralm), Lower Austria, basin near Lunz, at the northern side of the Duerrensteinstock mountain, presumably developed out of several dolines or sinkholes, has the lowest winter temperatures in Austria (down to -50° C). Inversion of the usual vegetation stages: the treeless and shrubless doline bottom is followed by slopes covered with dwarf pines and coniferous trees.