Gaisberg (Upper Austrian Pre-Alps)

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Gaisberg
The Gaisberg and to the left of it the Dürre Eck

The Gaisberg and to the left of it the Dürre Eck

height 1267  m above sea level A.
location Upper Austria , Austria
Mountains Upper Austrian Pre-Alps
Dominance 1.4 km →  Hochbuchberg
Notch height 226 m ↓  Mandlmais
Coordinates 47 ° 54 '36 "  N , 14 ° 16' 47"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '36 "  N , 14 ° 16' 47"  E
Gaisberg (Upper Austrian Pre-Alps) (Upper Austria)
Gaisberg (Upper Austrian Pre-Alps)

The Gaisberg is a 1267  m above sea level. A. high mountain in the municipality of Molln .

General

The 1267 m high, mostly forested Gaisberg is located in the Upper Austrian Pre-Alps in the municipality of Molln. To the west of the summit is the "Dürre Eck" at 1222 m, to the south at 1005 meters is the Mollner Hut . A marked hiking trail leads over the summit. Limestone mining by the Bernegger company is of economic importance .

Felsentor at the Dürren Eck

Mining

Mining was presumably practiced since the 13th century (Hutmanngraben), there is documentary evidence of ironworking from around 1570. In 1569 the Steyr mayor and a knife maker from Steinbach an der Steyr applied to the emperor for permission to mine iron, as the rural smithies from Steyr did not sufficient Innerberger Eisen ( Erzberg ) could be supplied. At the end of the 18th century the ore deposits were exhausted. After several renewed, obviously unsuccessful, attempts, the rights for the "Eisenstein-Bau" have expired since 1882. Today limestone is mined (Bernegger company). According to a decision made in 2000, the old quarry at Dürren Eck is being renatured and replaced by a quarry on Pfaffenboden (municipality boundary to Ternberg ) that is no longer visible from the valley .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying Austria: Austrian Map online (Austrian map 1: 50,000) .
  2. ↑ nationalparkregion.com accessed on November 27, 2011
  3. ↑ Willibald Girkinger / Wolfgang Heitzmann: The Steyr - Landscape and People on the River , Linz: Landesverlag 1990 (2nd edition) ISBN 3-85214-527-9 p. 73
  4. ^ Johann Weichenberger: Eisenbergbau am Gaisberg near Molln , Linz / Leonstein 1997, accessed on April 11, 2014
  5. ↑ Take a deep breath in Molln: The quarry is to be moved behind the Gaisberg ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) OÖN article from November 29, 2000 on bernegger.at (accessed on April 11, 2014)

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