Buchauer saddle

Buchauer saddle
Compass direction	southwest	Northeast
Pass height	861  m above sea level A.
state	Styria
Watershed	Wengerbach, Enns	Buchauer Bach, Großer Billbach, Enns
Valley locations	Weng in the Gesäuse	St. Gallen
expansion	Buchauer Strasse (B 117)
Mountains	Ennstal Alps
profile
Ø pitch	7.3% (220 m / 3 km)	3% (346 m / 11.5 km)
map
Coordinates	47 ° 36 '38 "  N , 14 ° 31' 4"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '38 "  N , 14 ° 31' 4"  E

The Buchauer saddle is 861  m above sea level. A. high pass in the Ennstal Alps in Styria . Buchauer Straße (B 117) leads over the saddle from Altenmarkt to Admont .

The Buchauer Sattel separates the Großer Buchstein from the Haller walls and the Middle Ennstal from the valley of the Großer Billbach , which flows into the Upper Austrian Ennstal near Altenmarkt . The pass is the starting point for hikes to the Grabneralmhütte and the Admonter Haus . Road bike or mountain bike tours also lead over the Buchauer Sattel.

In the last Ice Age , the Enns Glacier built up at the narrow point of the Gesäuses and flowed over the Buchauer Saddle into the Buchau , as evidenced by extensive moraine deposits . So it is a transfluence passport .

literature

• Arthur Winkler-Hermaden : Geological play of forces and land formation. Basic knowledge on the question of young mountain formation and land formation. Springer, Vienna 1957, p. 578, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-7091-7881-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ÖK50 in: www.austrianmap.at , Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying Austria, Austrian map.
2. ↑ Buchauer Sattel, access to the Grabneralmhütte in: www.grabneralmhaus.at , accessed on August 7, 2017.
3. ↑ Buchauer Sattel (861m) in: www.quaeldich.de , accessed on August 7, 2017.
4. ↑ Gesaeuse National Park : Geology of the Gesaeuse , accessed on August 19, 2019.