Himberg (Puchberg am Schneeberg)
| Himberg | ||
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 The Himberg |
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| height | 948 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Lower Austria , Austria | |
| Mountains | Gutenstein Alps | |
| Dominance | 1.45 km → Kienberg | |
| Notch height | 90 m ↓ Wegscheidgraben | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 47 '14 " N , 15 ° 55' 25" E | |
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| rock | Gutenstein dolomite | |
| Normal way | Hike | |
The Himberg is a mountain in the market town of Puchberg am Schneeberg in southern Lower Austria at an altitude of 948 m above sea level. A.
location
The Himberg, east of Puchberg, is surrounded to the north and west by Puchberger Strasse , which connects Wiener Neustadt with Neunkirchen . The ridge continues to the southeast with the Kienberg ( 1015 m above sea level ). The Himberg is already assigned to the mountain group of the Gutenstein Alps , while the other mountains of the Puchberg basin are included in the Rax-Schneeberg group .
geology
The Himberg is mostly covered by forest. In the south of the mountain there were landslides in earlier times, the effects of which are still visible. The bottom layer of the Wetterstein limestone is followed by a biogenic Wetterstein limestone and then a macroscopically conspicuous rock in which centimeter-sized reddish-brown to gray microcritical limestone components are combined with light- and dark-gray banded calcite cements . These rock layers can also be found in the wider area.
history
Until the construction of the chairlift in 1949, the first in Lower Austria, the mountain was not often climbed. In the years after its construction, new hiking trails and a nature park with various animal enclosures were created. From then on, the Himberg was next to the Schneeberg one of the most visited mountains in the region. That is why a refuge was built near the summit , the Himberg House . The chairlift was dismantled due to safety deficiencies at the end of the 20th century and the refuge was abandoned a few years later due to insufficient visitor numbers.
The aisle of the former chairlift can still be seen. The valley station became the base of the Austrian mountain rescue service a few years ago . The mountain station was removed, the enclosures were abandoned. The hiking trails become less accessible year after year.
Others
- In the course of the siege of Vienna , the Ottomans came to Puchberg in 1683. According to legend, part of the population fled to the Alleluja cave on the north side of the Himberg. In order not to be discovered, they sent a woman away with her crying child. However, the Ottomans became aware of a fireplace and killed all the refugees. Only the excluded mother and child survived. The Schneeberg author J. A. Schultes allegedly found human bones at this point in the 19th century.
- At the beginning of the 21st century, a fully automatic antenna station for mobile communications was built on the Himberg.
- The Günther Schlesinger monument and the Paul Kammerer monument are located on the Himberg (see: List of monuments in Puchberg am Schneeberg ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geologische Bundesanstalt: Report on geological surveys on sheet 2, Puchberg (download as pdf, accessed on August 8, 2008; 246 kB)
- ↑ a b Herbert Roisky in 100 years of Gendarmerieposten Puchberg am Schneeberg, 1892–1992 , publisher: Gendarmerieposten Puchberg am Schneeberg, self-published in 1992 by the Gendarmeriepost Puchberg am Schneeberg