Prírodný park Výhon, Nature park in Brno-Country District, Czech Republic.
Přírodní park Výhon covers the whole Výhon massif, a hill rising 355 m and more than 170 m above the Svratka river plain south of Brno, the highest point of the Dyjsko-svratecký úval. Its steep slopes form a mosaic of vineyards, orchards, fields, gardens and grassy balks; a wooden lookout tower, Akátová věž, stands on the summit.
The nature park was established in 2002, covering 17.66 km² across the cadastral areas of Blučina, Nosislav and Židlochovice. Its slopes had long been farmed as a mosaic of vineyards, orchards and fields, and the Židlochovický hliník clay pit was already recognised in 1978 as an international standard site for the upper part of the lower Badenian.
The name Výhon refers to the hill's shape, and the slopes are a patchwork of vineyards, orchards, small fields and grassy balks. The Akátová věž lookout on the summit, a wooden tower just under 18 m tall, has stood by trigonometric point 4423-28 since 2009; an ecumenical cross was added on the second summit in 2018.
The park covers 17.66 km² across the cadastral areas of Blučina, Nosislav and Židlochovice, and its slopes are a mosaic of vineyards, orchards, fields and grassy balks. The wooden Akátová věž lookout, just under 18 m tall, has stood since 2009 at the trigonometric point 4423-28 on the summit; an ecumenical cross was added in 2018 on the second summit near point 4423-232.
The former brickworks quarry on the northern edge of Židlochovice, known as Židlochovický hliník, has been an internationally recognised standard site (faciostratotype) for the upper part of the lower Badenian since 1978. It yielded a whale's lower jaw and shark teeth, including a giant Carcharodon. Until recently the quarry was used for motocross.
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