Special mountain saddle

Special mountain saddle
Compass direction	North	south
Pass height	897  m above sea level A.
region	Attersee region	Wolfgangsee region
Watershed	Loidlbach → Burgaubach → Attersee	to Haleswiessee (underground to Äußere Weißenbach → Attersee)
Valley locations	Weißenbach and Burgau	Russbach
expansion	Forest path
Mountains	Schafberg group : Breitenberg / Zimnitz (Leonsberg)
Map (Upper Austria)
Coordinates	47 ° 46 '31 "  N , 13 ° 32' 22"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 46 '31 "  N , 13 ° 32' 22"  E

The Fachbergsattel is 897  m above sea level. A. high pass crossing in the Schafberg group in the Salzkammergut , in the municipal area of St. Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee and Steinbach am Attersee in Upper Austria .

Location and landscape

The Fachbergsattel lies between the Atterseeregion and Wolfgangtal , in the depression of the Schafberggruppe between Schafberg in the west and Zimnitz / Leonsberg in the east, about 9 kilometers northwest of Bad Ischl , 7 kilometers northeast of the east bank of the Wolfgangsee and 2½ kilometers south of the south bank of the Attersee .

The saddle connects the Breitenberg  ( 1412  m above sea level ) to the west with the Leonsberg (summit  1745  m above sea level ) to the east.

To the north lies the Weißenbachtal , with the outer Weißenbach near Weißenbach . The Loidlbach drains from the saddle northwest to the Burgaubach , which flows into the Attersee near Burgau . To the south lies the Haleswiessee and the valley of the Rußbach , which flows into the Ischler Ache (Ischl) , the outflow of the Wolfgangsee, near Mönichsreith . The Haleswiessee, to which a small channel goes from the Hinterhaleswiesalm below the saddle, lies in an above-ground karst depression, a polje . The lake then also drains to the north via a swell (ponor) in the subsurface, namely to the Outer Weißenbach.

History and Development

The saddle was already an important passage in the Middle Ages, especially for the pilgrimage to St. Wolfgang . While the Wolfgangland belonged to the Bavarian , from 1506 Austrian monastery Mondsee , the southern shores of Mondsee and Attersee were Salzburg . In this way, the route over the Fachberg bypassed the Salzburg road tariffs. In the other direction, the route was a much-used smuggling route for the Ischl salt . The Haelleins wis (Haleswies) was first documented in 1416 in the Mondseer Urbar.

For this reason, the path climbs from the north in steep serpentines from the Weißenbachtal, not over the Burgau, which already belongs to Salzburg - the state border runs directly on the ridge west of the saddle. But now there is a forest path along the Loidlbach. Today's hiking trail from Weißenbach am Attersee , near the forest settlement , over the Fachberg leads north above the Haleswies-Polje, then over a forest path either to the Schwarzenseestraße ( L1293 ) at Kösselfall and down to Rußbach , or over the Schwarzensee to St. Wolfgang .

A little north of the saddle, at the Fachbergalm, the path branches off, which leads over the north-west ridge Steinernes Mandl ( 1413  m above sea level ) - Elsenschneid - Trattenspitz ( 1556  m above sea level ) to the Leonsberg summit .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guido Müller: The area of ​​the Halleswiessee in the Salzkammergut. A regional overview. In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter vol. 26 (1972), issue 1/2, p. 47 column 4 and note 4 ibid. (Full article p. 47–53, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, there p. 2).
2. ↑ Urbar Mondsee 1416 (oldest completely preserved Urbar); in: Konrad Schiffmann (Ed.): The medieval Stiftsurbare of the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns. ( Österr. Urbare III / 2/1 ), Part 1: Lambach, Mondsee, Ranshofen, Traunkirchen. Vienna / Leipzig 1912; also in dsslb .: Historical Lexicon of Place Names for Upper Austria , 1935; According to Müller 1972, p. 47.