Eichkogel (Vienna)
Eichkogel | ||
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West side of the Eichkogel |
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height | 428 m above sea level A. | |
location | Vienna , Austria | |
Mountains | Vienna Woods | |
Dominance | 0.8 km → Parapluieberg (Perchtoldsdorf) | |
Notch height | 50 m ↓ Wiener Hütte | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 7 '35 " N , 16 ° 13' 6" E | |
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The Eichkogel is a 428 m high mountain in the 23rd Viennese district of Liesing .
The Eichkogel is located in the far southwest of Vienna in the Rodaun district and is the highest mountain in the Liesing district. It is enclosed on three sides by Lower Austria . At its southwestern foot, the Wiener Graben forms the border between Vienna and Kaltenleutbaren . The Wiener Bürgerspitalwald extends north of the Eichkogel in the municipality of Breitenfurt near Vienna . On the south-eastern slope in the Kaltenleutgebner valley there is a former cement works, in which the lime extracted from the neighboring Teufelstein was processed in the past . The Liesing drought flows through the valley along the route of the Kaltenleutgenz Railway .
As part of the Vienna Woods , the Eichkogel belongs to the Northern Limestone Alps . Its wooded summit consists of light gray limestone slate from the Cretaceous period .
literature
- Friedrich Brix: Brief geological considerations on the 23rd district of Vienna, Liesing . In: Ferdinand Opll: Liesing: History of the 23rd Viennese district and its old places . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7141-6217-8 .
- Georg Rosenberg: The Kalkalpine Wienerwald around Kaltenleutzüge (Lower Austria and Vienna) . In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute , Volume 108, pp. 115–153, Vienna 1965.