Neck (mountain pass)

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neck
Pass summit (looking towards Pernitz)

Pass summit (looking towards Pernitz)

Compass direction southwest Northeast
Pass height 662  m above sea level A.
district Wiener Neustadt-Land , Lower Austria Baden , Lower Austria
Watershed Piesting , Fischa , Danube Triesting , Schwechat , Danube
Valley locations Pernitz Pottenstein
expansion Pass road
Built 1828
Mountains Gutenstein Alps
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Ø pitch 4.1% (232 m / 5.6 km) 3.2% (337 m / 10.5 km)
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Hals (mountain pass) (Austria)
Neck (mountain pass)
Coordinates 47 ° 55 '38 "  N , 15 ° 59' 17"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '38 "  N , 15 ° 59' 17"  E
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The neck is a mountain pass in the Lower Austrian pre-Alps. With a peak height of 662  m above sea level. A. it connects the Triestingtal near Pottenstein with the Piestingtal near Pernitz . The top of the pass itself bears the name Auf dem Hals .

A private road leads from the neck to the Waxeneckhaus .

The road over the neck was laid out on a special initiative by Johann Baptist Ignaz von Waldstätten (1772–1841), head of the district under the Vienna Woods , in the years 1826/27.

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  • To the west of the pass: the former Schneerosenhaus inn

Historical maps

  • The "neck" and its surroundings around 1872 (record sheets of the land survey )

  • The road over the neck (top left) lies in the north of Pernitz and the valley of the Piesting (incorrectly also called "Kalter Gang")

  • The road leads towards Pottenstein through the Grabendörfel

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neck and surroundings on ÖK 50 , www.austrianmap.at , Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying Austria, Austrian map, scale 1: 50,000.
  2. ^ Franz Carl Weidmann : FC Weidmann's guide on forays through Austria and Steyermark . Second, corrected and enlarged edition. Carl Armbruster, Vienna 1836, p. 109. - Text online .