Karlgraben (Neuberg municipality)

Karlgraben ( Rotte )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Bruck-Mürzzuschlag  (BM), Styria
Judicial district	Mürzzuschlag
Pole. local community	Neuberg an der Mürz   ( KG  Neuberg , Krampen )
Locality	Cramps
District	Neuberg an der Mürz
Coordinates	47 ° 40 ′ 40 "  N , 15 ° 33 ′ 41"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 40 "  N , 15 ° 33 ′ 41"  E
height	767  m above sea level A.
Building status	26 (2018 )
Post Code	8692 Neuberg an der Mürz
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Alpl village area (62144 002)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Karlgraben is a place in the Upper Mürz Valley in Styria and belongs to the cadastral communities Neuberg and Krampen of the community Neuberg an der Mürz in the district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag .

geography

The place is about 1½ kilometers into the valley northwest of Neuberg-Alpl , at the Mürz and Karlsgraben (outside Kramp ditch) at the Schneealpe on the 750- 800  m above sea level. A. Height. The Graben is a left side valley of the Mürz, which comes down from the southwest flank of the Schneealpe ( 1903  m above sea level ). Karlgraben has around 25 addresses. The houses on the left and south belong to the cadastral community Neuberg, the right to the cadastral community Krampen, the cadastral border runs roughly in the creek.

St. Barbara at the seven springs

In Karlgraben there is a headwaters, the seven springs . The springs drain the Schneealpstock and pour large amounts (up to 400 l / s). At the edge of the forest there is a small Barbara chapel , called St. Barbara by the seven springs .

Neighboring places:

Tyrol		Schneealpe ∗
Cramps
		Slacking

^∗Location of the mountain huts, KG  Altenberg

History and infrastructure

In the 19th century there was a smelting furnace in Karlgraben for iron mining in Neuberg, which belonged to the kk  Montan-Aerar , the state mining administration.

The city ​​of Vienna acquired the springs in Karlgraben as early as 1899 in order to connect them to the (I.) Vienna high spring water pipeline . The discussion was about a pipeline through the Naßkamm near Altenberg to the source area in the Naßwaldtal or through the Preiner Gscheid with a connection at Hirschwang. At the time, these projects were not technically feasible. Development only made sense in the 1960s, and from 1965 to 1969 the Schneealpenstollen was driven under the mountain range through to Naßwald, 9½ kilometers long and about 1000 meters below its summit corridor. The construction was difficult and hindered by severe water ingress. At the same time, another tunnel was cut westwards, the 1.2 kilometer long Scheibling tunnel to the Tirolbach in Krampen, and then the Lärchstein tunnel to Lanau. The connection of the Pfannbauern spring in the Salzatal valley followed under the Wetterin , and it merged with the second Viennese high spring water pipeline there.

Web links

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

proof

• 62144 - Neuberg an der Mürz. Community data, Statistics Austria .

1. ↑ Georg Goeth: The Duchy of Styria: geographically-statistically-topographically represented and provided with historical explanations. Volume 1 (Brucker Kreis, 1st part), Verlag Heubner, 1840, chapter Steuergemeinde Neuberg: c) Krampen , p. 331 ( digitized version, Google, full view )
2. ^ Alfred Drennig, Josef Donner: Version and introduction of the "Seven Sources in the Karlgraben" in the I. Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline. Special reprint from Gas - Water - Warmth , issue 4 and 5/1966;
   For more special literature, see the article Schneealpenstollen .