Karlhochkogel

Karlhochkogel
	Karlhochkogel from the southwest
height	2096 m above sea level A.
location	Styria , Austria
Mountains	Hochschwab Group , Northern Limestone Alps
Dominance	1.4 km → Hochschwab
Notch height	198 m ↓ Trawiessattel
Coordinates	47 ° 36 '26 " N , 15 ° 9' 27" E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '26 " N , 15 ° 9' 27" E
rock	Dachstein Limestone
Age of the rock	Upper Triassic

The Karlhochkogel is 2096 m above sea level. A. high mountain in the Hochschwab group in the Austrian state of Styria . Due to the flat terrain, it is a popular vantage point immediately southeast of the Hochschwab south face.

Location and surroundings

The Karlhochkogel forms the highest elevation of the Karlalpe, a plateau southeast of the Hochschwab south face, from which it is separated by the Trawiessattel ( 1898 m ). The Festlbeilstein above the Reidelsteinriedel and the Fölzstein ( 1946 m ) are among the most striking features of this massif . Charles Hochkogel even presented mainly from the north as a gentle knoll lawn, but has steep rocky and south and west craggy ground up. To the southeast below the summit lies the eponymous Karl , from which the Karlgraben runs in a south-westerly direction to the Karlschütt and the rear Ilgner valley .

Geology and geomorphology

Like the pole wall on the other side of the Trawiestal, the Karlhochkogel is determined by the Dachstein reef limestone , which is replaced by the banked , lagoon Dachstein limestone towards the hanging wall . In contrast to the pole wall, which is an isolated cover block with a tectonic shape , the horizontal is formed by a dolomite base up to 150 m thick . This could be dated in the Oberkarn using a locally occurring, thin band of Carnic slate and limestone , which separates it from the Wetterstein dolomite.

The reef limestone on the Karlhochkogel is between 200 and 300 m thick. About 50 m of the overlying lagoon have been preserved, but the main mass has long been eroded . On the east side of the Karlhochkogel there is a rich brachiopod fauna as well as a conodont fauna with the species Epigondolella triangularis . The beginning of the reef growth goes back at least to the Lacium . To the east, the reef limestone continues over the Fölzkogel on the Mitteralm, where the platform edge connects to the Aflenz basin .

Ascent

Summit cross on the Karlhochkogel

The Karlhochkogel can be climbed more or less easily from several different sides. The simplest variant leads from the Trawiessattel (can be reached from Gasthof Bodenbauer in 3 hours and from the Voisthaler Hütte in 1 hour) via the Hinterwiesen to the summit in about ½ hour. From the Ilgner Valley, the ascent takes 3 to 3½ hours from Bodenbauer via Reidelsteinriedel or, starting at Festlau, through Karlgraben or via Wallmerin. From the south-east, the Karlhochkogel can be climbed in 3½ hours from the Fölzklamm either via the Fölzalm ( 1484 m ) or the Nadelsteinriegel. With the exception of the approaches to Trawiessattel and Fölzalm, all the above-mentioned climbs are unmarked and some are pathless.

The Karlgraben is often used for ski tours in the winter months .

Literature and maps

Günter and Luise Auferbauer: Hochschwab . Alpenvereinsführer, Bergverlag Rother , 3rd edition, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7633-1261-7 , p. 206.
Hochschwab group. Alpine Club Map 1: 50,000, sheet 18, combined print of the official ÖK50 map from the Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying , ISBN 978-3-937530628 .

Web links

Commons : Karlhochkogel - collection of images, videos and audio files

Hike over the Karlhochkogel at bergfex.at

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Gerhard W. Mandl, Gerhard Bryda & Wolfgang Pavlik: The Dachstein limestone in the Hochkar - Hochschwab area and its position in the development of the calcareous-alpine carbonate platform. In: Arbeitsstagung Geologische Bundesanstalt 2009. Leoben 2009, pp. 70–80. Online PDF , accessed December 24, 2019.
↑ Miloš Siblík & Gerhard Bryda: Brachiopods from the Upper Triassic Reef Habitats of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Dachstein Limestone, Hochschwab, Austria). In: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia , Volume 111/3, Vienna 2005, pp. 413–437.
↑ Günter and Luise Auferbauer: Hochschwab . Alpenvereinsführer, Bergverlag Rother , 3rd edition, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7633-1261-7 , p. 206.
^ Kurt Schall: Enjoyment ski touring atlas Austria East. 5th, updated edition, Schall-Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-900533-22-9 , p. 123.

[mandl-1] Gerhard W. Mandl, Gerhard Bryda & Wolfgang Pavlik: The Dachstein limestone in the Hochkar - Hochschwab area and its position in the development of the calcareous-alpine carbonate platform. In: Arbeitsstagung Geologische Bundesanstalt 2009. Leoben 2009, pp. 70–80. Online PDF , accessed December 24, 2019.

[2] Miloš Siblík & Gerhard Bryda: Brachiopods from the Upper Triassic Reef Habitats of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Dachstein Limestone, Hochschwab, Austria). In: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia , Volume 111/3, Vienna 2005, pp. 413–437.

[3] Günter and Luise Auferbauer: Hochschwab . Alpenvereinsführer, Bergverlag Rother , 3rd edition, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7633-1261-7 , p. 206.

[4] Kurt Schall: Enjoyment ski touring atlas Austria East. 5th, updated edition, Schall-Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-900533-22-9 , p. 123.