Gschaidberg

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Gschaidberg
Gschaidberg from the west

Gschaidberg from the west

height 1239  m above sea level A.
location Styria , Austria
Mountains Grazer Bergland , foothills east of the Mur
Dominance 2.5 km →  Wildkogel
Notch height 64 m ↓  stroke stop
Coordinates 47 ° 18 ′ 19 ″  N , 15 ° 26 ′ 15 ″  E Coordinates: 47 ° 18 ′ 19 ″  N , 15 ° 26 ′ 15 ″  E
Gschaidberg (Styria)
Gschaidberg
rock Osser lime
Age of the rock Devon
particularities Wood sculpture path

The Gschaidberg (also Gschaid-Nock or Gschaid for short ) is 1239  m above sea level. A. high mountain in the Grazer Bergland in the Austrian state of Styria . It is part of the Almenland Nature Park and is known as a popular panoramic mountain.

Location and surroundings

The Gschaidberg rises east to northeast about 280 meters above the Nechnitz, a small plateau and pass between Tyrnau and Fladnitz at the Teichalm . It forms the southern foothills of a ridge that extends from the Teichalm to the southwest, which is 1324  m above sea level. A. high Gerlerkogel peaks. The ridge is bounded in the northwest by the rear Tyrnauer Graben and in the southeast by the Hinterberger Graben. Until the end of 2014, the district border between Graz-Umgebung and Weiz ran near the summit, which migrated to the west through the incorporation of Tyrnaus zu Fladnitz. The Gschaidberg is located in the western part of the Almenland Nature Park .

Geology and geomorphology

The mostly wooded Gschaidberg is from Osser lime constructed within said Graz Paleozoic the Hochlantsch - facies belongs. A local peculiarity is the pannone area system of the Hubenhalt, which occurs northeast of the Gschaidberg at around 1200  m . Franz Heritsch described the approximately 100 meters thick lithology as alternating layers of blue, partly clay limestone and bluish dolomite . At the base there are thin yellowish dolomites and dolomitic limestone in places. According to Helmut Flügel , the limestone of the Hubenhalt is probably not a bank of its own , but merely a locally separable area of ​​the limestone slate sequence that dominates the Tyrnauer Graben.

tourism

Wooden dwarf
Summit cross

The Gschaidberg is a popular destination, primarily due to its location on the edge of the mountains and the associated view. The view from the tree-free summit meadow extends from the nearby Röthelstein and Rote Wand in the northwest over the entire Passail basin between Weizklamm and Schöckl in the south.

The summit cross can be reached from three sides on marked hiking trails. Starting from the village of Nechnitz ( 964  m ), a signposted circular hiking trail leads over the mountain, which was incorrectly referred to as Hausebnerberg in earlier maps by Freytag & Berndt . The fastest ascent is 45 minutes from Nechnitz over the southwest side of the mountain. The Gschaidberg is about halfway between Rechberg and Teichalm and can be hiked from both starting points in around two hours. It also takes two hours from the center of Fladnitz.

A special tourist attraction is the wooden sculpture trail and educational trail leading from Nechnitz to just below the summit . Over 45 different native animal species are shown, which were carved with a chainsaw by a local restaurateur and farmer .

Literature and maps

Web links

Commons : Gschaidberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital Atlas of Styria: Geology & Geotechnics. State of Styria , accessed on July 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Helmut wing : The geology of the Grazer Bergland. In: Communications from the Department of Geology, Paleontology and Mining at the Landesmuseum Joanneum , Graz 1975, p. 54. Online PDF , accessed on July 25, 2020.
  3. ↑ Günter and Luise Auferbauer: Grazer local mountains with Mur and Mürztal. Bergverlag Rother , Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7633-4292-3 , pp. 46-47.
  4. ↑ The wooden sculpture path. Almenland Nature Park , accessed on July 26, 2020 .