Göller-Gippel train

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Göller-Gippel train
Highest peak Göller ( 1766  m above sea level )
location Lower Austria
part of Lower Austrian Limestone Alps ( Mürzsteg Alps , AVE)
Classification according to Trimmel  1840
Göller-Gippel-Zug (Lower Austria)
Göller-Gippel train
Coordinates 47 ° 48 '  N , 15 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '  N , 15 ° 30'  E
rock Dolomite and limestone ( main dolomite , Dachstein limestone ), etc. a.
Age of the rock around 230–210 million years ( Norium - Rhätium )
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The Göller-Gippel-Zug is a mountain group of the Lower Austrian Limestone Alps in Lower Austria , on the border with Styria.

geography

Location and landscape

Gippel and Göller (from the northwest
from the Tirolerkogel , in front of Schneeberg and Rax)

  • Gippel wall - Gippel

  • Göller

The Göller-Gippel-Zug is located around 45 kilometers south of Sankt Pölten and 25 kilometers northwest of Mürzzuschlag , between the valley of the Unrechttraisen and the upper Mürz valley . It stretches in a west-east direction from the sources of the Salza about 20 km to the upper Schwarzatal , with a width of a little less than 10 km.

The ridge forms a central group of the Styrian-Lower Austrian Limestone Alps , which connects their southern range between Enns and Mürz ( Hochschwab , Veitsch ) to the more alpine peaks of the Ybbstal and Lassing Alps to the west and to the Viennese local mountains to the east.

Its main mountains are the Göller  ( 1766  m above sea level ) and the Gippel  ( 1669  m above sea level ), two mighty limestone stocks of the Kalkhochalpen.

Politically, it falls completely to Lower Austria, as the Styrian state border runs along the southwest foot of the Göllers. It partly forms the border between Lilienfeld and Neunkirchen , i.e. the landscape border between the Mostviertel and the industrial district . South of Gippel and Göller, however, there is an orographic exclave in the form of the cadastral municipality of Herrschaftsböden of the municipality of St. Aegyd am Neuwalde . The eastern part falls entirely in the municipality of Schwarzau in the mountains .

Boundary and neighboring mountain groups

According to the Austrian mountain group structure according to Trimmel , the group has the number 1840, and as a subgroup it belongs to the subgroup of the Lower Austrian Limestone Alps  (1800). The Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps  (AVE) sorts them - without explicitly naming them - to the Mürzsteg Alps , the mountains of the upper Mürz Valley.

It is bounded by Trimmel (clockwise from the northwest, border lines in italics, high and low points with kote):

Outline and summit

The group is divided into three floors:

The boundaries of these groups are Kernhof - Waldhüttsattel  ( 1266  m above sea level ) - Saugraben - Stangelbach or Trauch - upper Trauchbach - Mistelbacher Höhe (Kote 1306) - Schlagerbach - Preintal

Hydrography and geology

As part of the main Alpine ridge , the Göller-Gippel-Zug runs from its main course south of the Inn – Salzach – Enns line to the Ostend, which stretches out to the Vienna Gate , which no longer really represents the central ridge of the Alps, but the course of the northern branch of the Eastern Alps in the Alpine system of Central Europe to the Carpathians. As the northern border of the catchment area of ​​the Mürz , it separates the basic river basins of Austria : the southwest flank goes over the Mürz zur Mur (river basin unit Mur), the northwest over the Unrecht Traisen zur Traisen (river basin unit Danube below Jochenstein ), the eastern half to the Schwarza der Leitha (river basin unit Leitha, Raab and Rabnitz , eastern Alpine foothills, rivers over Hungary). The triple point of these units is on the Gippel wall .

The group belongs entirely to the Northern Limestone Alps of the Northern Alps (Eastern Alpine Permomesozoic , Triassic - Lower Cretaceous ). It is characterized by the Göller ceiling as part of the Ötscher ceiling , which stretches from the Ennstal Alps to Vienna. It consists largely of a mass of banky main dolomite (here Oberkarn - Obernor , 230–210 mya). The northern border of the group (Untrechtraisen – Trauchbach) is the layer boundary to the older Wetterstein . The summit ridge and southern flank of the Gippel and the Fegenberg are younger, thick-banked Dachstein limestone (Anninger limestone , Norium - Rhätium , around 210 mya), its summit corridor Flachwassergosau (much more recent deposits of the Cretaceous period, around 100 mya), the same also forms the valleys Preintal and Hirschbach . The southern flank of the Obersberg and the peaks of the Fegenberg are - like the Schneeberg - younger Wetterstein limestone lagoon, respectively reef and reef debris; ( Ladinium - Lower Carnium , around 240–230 mya), from here to the Lahnsattel, Gutenstein and Hallstatt limestone as well as Werfen formations can be found . This southern edge of the group is part of the SEMP line Salzach – Ennstal – Mariazell – Puchberg.

The group has comparatively few caves, one group can be found in the Preinleiten near Reithof .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lukas Plan: Verbal description of the delimitation of the subgroups of the Austrian cave directory . Status: January 8, 2008. Ed .: Association of Austrian Cave Researchers. ( hoehle.org [PDF; 321 kB ; accessed on May 15, 2018]).
  2. ↑ FK Bauer, R. Oberhauser: The geological structure of Austria. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7091-3745-1 , p. 251, column 2 f. and Tectonic Map Sketch of the Limestone Alps Eastern Section , p. 252 f.