Bischofberg (Ybbstal Alps)
| Bischofberg | ||
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| height | 751 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Lower Austria , Austria | |
| Mountains | Ybbstal Alps | |
| Dominance | 0.55 km → Freithofberg | |
| Notch height | 30 m | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 56 '42 " N , 14 ° 37' 54" E | |
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| rock | Limes of the Frankenfelser ceiling and cenoman cliff zone | |
| Age of the rock | Triassic to Upper Cretaceous (250-100 ma) | |
The Bischofberg is 751 m above sea level. A. high elevation of the Ybbstal Alps in the area of the municipality Ertl , on the Upper Austrian border near Maria Neustift , in the Eisenwurzen of the Mostviertel , Lower Austria .
Location and landscape
The Bischofberg is located in the hill country of the Eisenwurzen region, between Upper Austrian Ennstal and Ybbstal , in a direct extension of the Neustiftgraben , which comes up from the southwest of Großraming , and the Redtenbach of Waidhofen an der Ybbs in the east.
The mountain is an open knoll with two forest islands and four farmsteads above Maria Neustift .
On this mountain and the neighboring higher Freithofberg ( 958 m above sea level ), the shoulder of the Feichteck, the waters flow almost star-shaped in all directions:
- The Ramingbach rises in the south of the elevation, circles it to the west and then strives towards the north-west of the city of Steyr an der Enns.
- The Urlursprung lies on the northern slope of the Bischofberg (in the Weidenberg forest ), the Url also strives northwest, bends eastwards when leaving the Alps and flows into the Ybbs at Amstetten .
- In the northeast, in Großau, the Kohlenbach rises to the Url.
A little further east on the Freithofberg, however, the Nellingbach rises to the northeast towards Böhlerwerk an der Ybbs, Redtenbach to the east to Waidhofen, and in the south Hundsbach eastwards to the Neustiftbach and then southeast to the Enns.
At the same time, the Bischofberg forms a natural indentation in the summit corridor of the Ybbstal Alps, which connects the Upper Austrian Ennstal with the eastern Mostviertel , to the south and east lie Feichteck ( 1114 m above sea level ), Lindauer Berg ( 1103 m above sea level ) and Spindeleben ( 1077 m above sea level ) above Weyer and Gaflenz , west of Glasenberg ( 971 m above sea level ) and Spadenberg ( 1000 m above sea level ). To the northeast are Briefberg ( 837 m above sea level , with transmitter) and Hirschberg ( 857 m above sea level ), then the Mostviertel slopes down towards the Danube.
Geologically still limestone foothills , the Bischofberg counts hydrographically ( according to Trimmel 1962 ) to the flysch zone and alpine foothills between Enns and Erlauf (the border to the Ybbstaler foothills passes south of the mountain), according to Upper Austrian regional geography to the Enns and Steyrtaler Flysch mountains , and generally the Ybbstal Alps .
About the name
The bishop's name probably refers to the border between the dioceses of Linz and St. Pölten . The Steyrer Traungauers , who had developed the Mark on the Mur , increasingly moved to the Graz area at the beginning of the 12th century and formed today's Styria. In 1138 Sophie , widow Leopold I the Strong and regent for Ottokar (III. Of Styria) , with Archbishop Konrad I exchanged the place Weyer, and later the entire rule of Gaflenz , as a morning gift of their own , to the Garsten monastery . This raised the parish of Gaflenz , originally a branch of Waidhofen an der Ybbs , to a parish in the boundaries of Neustiftergrabenbach and Frenzbach . Großraming is also a Garsten foundation. Since 1490, under Friedrich III. , the area belongs to Austria above the Enns . When Emperor Joseph II forced the Diocese of Passau to renounce its parishes in Upper and Lower Austria in 1784 and founded the dioceses of Linz and St. Pölten, the Bischofberg was a distinctive diocesan - and also church province border.
geology
The Bischofberg lies in the middle of the Weyerer arches , a shear zone in which the longitudinal direction of the Alpine ranges turns north-south. This is the reason for the hydrographic situation.
The mountain itself consists of a clod of Triassic ( Kössen layers , Frankenfels blanket ) and Jurassic limestone ( Vilser limestone of the Dogger ) in the main dolomite of the Cenoman of the Cenoman cliff zone .
Hiking trails
The Austrian long-distance hiking trails 04 Voralpenweg and 06 Mariazeller Weg , which run together for a while, lead from Waidhofen over the Bischofberg to Maria Neustift, and then on over the Spadenberg to Garsten im Ennstal.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Xaver Pritz: History of the Styrian Ottokare and their ancestors, up to the extinction of this tribe in 1192 . 1844 ( In an anthology, pp. 289 f., Google eBook, full view [accessed on April 14, 2012]).
- ^ Ferdinand Aberer: Contributions to the stratigraphy and tectonics of the marginal zones of the northern limestone Alps between Neustift and Konradsheim . In: Communications of the Geological Society Vienna . 39-41 Volume, 1946, B. The sequence of layers of the Cenoman cliff zone. , S. 25th ff . ( uibk.ac.at [PDF] (repr. 1951), see also geological map , profile I and tectonic overview map , enclosed, pp. 74, 75, 76).