Hundsheimer Berg
| Hundsheimer Berg | ||
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 Pfaffenberg and Hundsheimer Berg from the southwest |
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| height | 480 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Lower Austria , Austria | |
| Mountains | Hundsheim Mountains , Little Carpathians | |
| Dominance | 7.3 km → Thebener Kogel | |
| Notch height | 312 m ↓ Trautmannsdorf | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 7 ′ 56 ″ N , 16 ° 56 ′ 19 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | from Hainburg / Schlossberg, or Hundsheim via the White Cross | |
The Hundsheimer Berg is a broad mountain on the eastern edge of Austria; it rises steeply between the town of Hainburg and the village of Hundsheim, 480 m above the Danube floodplains , near the border triangle between Austria, Hungary and Slovakia . The Danube forms a short breakthrough valley here to the Little Carpathians , which bears the name of the Hungarian Gate (or Hainburger or Theben Gate ) and has been strongly fortified since the Great Migration towards the east.
Geology and geography
Geologically, the broad mountain range with a flat summit region lies at the transition from the Vienna Basin to the Little Carpathians . In the east-facing base, it consists of crystalline rock from the Tatrids with limestone and sand-lime stone areas, especially peaks, on the Hexenberg and Pfaffenberg (331 m) on the western slope, where the Roman quarry is located above the current spa town of Deutsch-Altenburg . The brightly bright quarry, stretching over 120 meters in altitude, can be seen from afar and provides good building material interspersed with crinoids and other fossils.
The color- banked limestones were deposited largely concordant, but are in the "Hundsheimer column" and in the lime kiln greatly shifted -Siedlung and shaped S-in some folds down. These structures indicate a high level of stress on this deep tectonic level of the Tatrids.
The crystalline and limestone rocks, which are mixed here, form a connection to those of the Central Alps through the Leithagebirge .
On the steep eastern slope - towards the Hainburger Schlossberg - series of green slate , chert , biotite-quartz- phyllite and granite appear under the limestone . Farther east in a quarry near the village of Berg , paleozoic, tectonically strongly folded paragneiss is being mined. Another quarry near the Danube (near Deutsch-Altenburg) is used by the waterways directorate (formerly the Federal Electricity Construction Office , now part of the via donau ) to secure the steadily deepening river bed . The huge quarry on Pfaffenberg, on the other hand, harbors increasing conflict between the economy, tourism, archeology and environmental protection . H. between the operator Hollitzer (Rohrdorfer Group, 2005 to 2015 CEMEX Austria, previously Readymix Kies-Union), who meets the growing demand for bulk raw materials , and the surrounding communities of Altenburg, Hundsheim and Hainburg or some of their spa houses .
The Hundsheimer Berg has extraordinarily rich Pannonian dry vegetation over limestone of international importance. It is home to a multitude of habitats and a large number of rare and protected species. Parts of the forest have been preserved as largely unaffected by humans , while other parts have been grazed for centuries and are now in danger of being covered with bushes after grazing ceased a few decades ago.
It is an important first-order surveying point and the target point of the side of the triangle starting from the fundamental point Hermannskogel (Vienna's highest mountain), which determined the orientation of the Austrian triangulation network. This line of sight of 60 km in length crosses the Vienna Basin in its full width. The surveying pillar is close to the summit cross and the small mountain hut, which is only open on weekends.
The “Hundsheimer Berg nature trail” has existed since 2006, where information boards also indicate the skeleton of the extinct Hundsheimer rhinoceros found nearby .
The Hundsheim Mountains and their surroundings, around 1873
Recording sheets of the Franzisco-Josephinische Landesaufnahme
Hundsheimer Berg, Pfaffenberg and Hexenberg
Hundsheim (top left) is located south of the Hundsheimer Mountains
Hainburger Pforte, Austrian side
Hainburger Pforte, Slovak side (Devín / Theben)
Individual evidence
- ^ Quarry soon to be owned by Bavaria , NÖN from September 8, 2015.
- ↑ Wolfgang Holzner et al .: Austrian dry grass catalog. “Steppes”, “heaths”, dry meadows, poor meadows: existence, endangerment, possibilities of their conservation. In: Green series of the Federal Ministry for Health and Environmental Protection , Volume 6, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-900-649-065 , p. 121, object ÖK 61/11.
literature
- ÖK 1: 50,000, sheet 61 Hainburg
