Günser Mountains
| Günser Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Geschrittenstein ( 884 m above sea level ) | |
| location | Burgenland , Austria / Vas County , Hungary border | |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 22 ′ N , 16 ° 25 ′ E | |
The Günser Gebirge (also Günser Berge or Günser Bergland , ung. Kőszegi-hegység ) is a group of forested mountains on the border between Austria and Hungary with heights between 600 and 900 meters. The mountainous region is geologically related to the central central Alps of the Hohe Tauern , although it is already at the transition to the Pannonian Plain .
In geoscientific terms, the Günser Mountains are sometimes referred to as the Rechnitz Slate Mountains and tectonically as the Rechnitz Window .
geography
The relatively gently undulating mountains have an area of about 15 × 20 km and are about 80% in the Austrian Burgenland , but got its name from the western Hungarian border town of Güns (Hungarian: Kőszeg ). It lies in the triangle between the cities of Oberwart , Oberpullendorf and Kőszeg, borders the Lower Austrian Bucklige Welt in the north and is drained by the Pinka and Rabnitz rivers to the south, while the Güns , which forms the northern border, flows eastwards directly to the Raab .
The almost entirely forested area ( latitude 47 ° 17 'to 47 ° 25' north, longitude 16 ° 18 'to 16 ° 32' east) is crossed by the Geschrittenstein Straße (B56) Lockenhaus - Rechnitz , which has heights between 300 and 820 m near the state border. On the western edge, the “ Schlösserstraße ” runs from Kirchschlag or Günseck to Bernstein and Stadtschlaining to the district capital of Oberwart . Apart from the B56, only a few access roads lead into the mountains themselves, but those to Glashütten and the former mine almost reach the heights of the Kleiner Hirschenstein ( 836 m above sea level ).
The highest peaks are the Geschrittenstein with a height of 884 m above sea level. A. with a lookout point right on the state border, and the Große Hirschenstein ( 862 m above sea level ) with a radio transmitter. The Geschrittenstein is the highest mountain in the whole of Burgenland. The western limit of the actual mountains is formed by the 500 m high saddle between Goberling and Holzschlag . On the sunny southern slopes from Rechnitz to Schlaining there are fruit and wine growing as well as plantations with sweet chestnuts .
geology
Geologists also call the mountainous area Rechnitz Slate Mountains and combine it with the Bernstein Mountains to the north to form the so-called Günser Sporn . On the one hand it separates the middle from the southern Burgenland and on the other hand forms the transition from the Hungarian lowlands to the eastern edge of the Alps . The mountain builds up from metamorphic crystalline schists ( Bündnerschiefer ) and igneous rocks on ( Ophiolites ), the similarity with rocks of the Tauern window in the Hohentauern as well as those of the Engadine window and Gargellenfensters have. Rocks of the same type as in the Günser Mountains can be found not only north in the Bernstein Mountains, but also 10 km further south near Deutsch Schützen-Eisenberg .
Like the Tauern Window , the Günser Gebirge, geologically also known as the Rechnitz Window , occupies a special position, not because its geologically older rocks protrude from the younger, tertiary rocks in the area, but because they are rocks that belong to the Penninic and here exist in a tectonic window . Apart from the exceptions mentioned above, the alpine geological structural unit of the Penninic cannot be found on the surface of the earth in Austria: it is covered by the rocks of the Eastern Alps , which were several hundred or even more than a thousand kilometers from the south as tectonic blankets when the Alps were formed were pushed over the Penninic .
The Semmering window in the northeast, on the other hand, is also a tectonic window, but there younger units of the Eastern Alpine emerge beneath older ones of the same structural unit.
The Günser Mountains are rich in natural resources , of which the pebbles near Glashütten, the pebble copper near Schlaining and the asbestos near Rechnitz have become uneconomical . On the other hand, the antimony mining near Stadtschlaining and the noble serpentine , which formed on the slope of the Kleine Plischa ( 639 m above sea level ) from Penninic ophiolites, remained important.
See also
Web links
- Entry on Günser Gebirge in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Special features in the construction of the Alps
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Egger et al .: Geological map of Austria 1: 1,500,000 . ( Online version; PDF file; 1.6 MB ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )).
- ↑ Reinhard Schönenberg, Joachim Neugebauer: Introduction to the geology of Europe . 4th edition. Verlag Rombach, Freiburg 1981, ISBN 3-7930-0914-9 , p. 194 .