Alpenostrand

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The landscapes in eastern Austria and western Hungary with the transition from the eastern Alps to the plains of the Vienna basin in the north and the Graz basin in the south are referred to as the eastern edge of the Alps .

The eastern edge of the Alps protrudes in the area of Wechsel , the Bucklige Welt , the Rosaliengebirge , the Ödenburg Mountains (Soproni-hegység) and the Leithagebirge in the east to Hungary and forms the transition to the Pannonian Plain . The latter form the geological transition to the Carpathian Arch . To the south it continues in the Günser Uplands (Kőszegi-hegység) .

In the north, the eastern edge of the Alps in the Danube bend near Klosterneuburg, the Wiener Pforte , has a sharp transition to the northern edge of the Alps , here opposite the Weinviertel cliff zone (Waschberg zone) leads into the Carpathian region. The hills following to the south, such as the southern Burgenland threshold , Őrség or Goričko , which close the edge of the Graz basin against the Pannonian plains, lead over to the south-eastern edge of the Alps to the Balkans . Geologically, these hills are still part of the Alps and still represent tectonically actively sinking marginal massifs of the Alps.

The main mass of the Alps on the eastern edge includes the Vienna Woods in the north and the Semmering area , in a broader sense the Viennese local mountains , which are the last high limestone stocks in the Alps, and the Styrian peripheral mountains with Possruck and Bacher mountains in the far south. The subalpine basins in front of it (together with the southern Weinviertel) are referred to as the foreland in the east and south-east . The landscape is dominated by the Neusiedlersee .

  • Large landscapes of Austria , with the eastern and southeastern foreland on the edge of the Alps

  • Eastern Alps in Hungary (Mesoregion 3.1 Alpokalja )

Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Alpenostrand in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  2. ↑ cf. Georg Gangl: Seismotectonic investigations on the eastern edge of the Alps. In: Communications from the Geological Society in Vienna , 66. – 67. Volume, 1973/74 ( article pdf , uibk.ac.at).
  3. ↑ In the system of agricultural production areas, only the Styrian peripheral mountains - even including the frame around the Carinthian basin - are referred to as the eastern edge of the Alps .