Lahnsattel (pass)

Lahnsattel
Compass direction	west	Southeast
Pass height	1015  m above sea level A.
state	Lower Austria
Watershed	Terzbach → Salza → Enns → Danube	Kriegskogelbach → Mürz → Mur → Drau → Danube
Valley locations	Terz (parish of St. Aegyd )	Frein on the Mürz
expansion	Lahnsattel Strasse B 23
Mountains	Mürzsteg Alps
profile
Ø pitch	5.5% (160 m / 2.9 km)	2.2% (151 m / 6.8 km)
Max. Incline	17%	11%
Map (Lower Austria)
Coordinates	47 ° 46'30 "  N , 15 ° 29'10"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 46'30 "  N , 15 ° 29'10"  E.

The Lahnsattel ( 1015  m above sea level ) is a mountain pass in the Styrian-Lower Austrian Limestone Alps . The Lahnsattelstraße B 23 leads over it. The summit is in the federal state of Lower Austria . The village of Lahnsattel , which belongs to St. Aegyd am Neuwalde in the Lilienfeld district (southernmost Mostviertel ), is located on the saddle .

location

The saddle connects the Salzatal near Mariazell , the adjoining valley and the village of Halltal , with the Mürz Valley near Mürzzuschlag , adjoining the valley from Neuberg , the Upper Mürz Valley . It is an important link between the well-known tourist area around the Mariazellerland and the Upper Styrian industrial area of ​​the Mur-Mürz-Furche .

The road has a maximum gradient of 11% on the southeast side in the direction of Frein an der Mürz , and in the west to Terz im Halltal, which largely belongs to the Lower Austrian municipality of St. Aegyd am Neuwalde . however 17%. Only three kilometers north of the pass is the limestone summit of the Göller massif ( 1766  m above sea level ), in the south the Wildalpe  ( 1523  m above sea level ). The two mountain ranges belong to the Mürzsteg Alps , according to another classification, the Göller to the Göller-Gippel-Zug of the Lower Austrian Limestone Alps and the Wildalpe to the Hochschwab group of the Upper Styrian Limestone and Slate Alps .

history

The Lahngraben got its name from the frequent avalanche tracks ( Lahn in dialect ), because the region often has snowy winters - just like on the pass road to Kernhofer Gscheid and around Mariazell . Serious avalanche accidents were around 1844 with a total of eleven deaths, or on January 18, 1878 there was a 150-meter-wide avalanche from Göller, which killed 13 people and made the Höchbauernhaus inn on the saddle disappear without a trace. Since then, there has been no house directly on the saddle. There is still a danger of avalanches to this day, so the road had to be closed at short notice several times in early 2006 due to the meter-high snowfall.

Lahnsattel local cemetery (2014)

The valley was not settled until 1783, when forest work began here. Before that, the reasons for rule were an old sovereign hunting ban , one of the largest Dominical possessions in Austria at the time.

For a long time, the saddle was primarily of forestry interest, the Frein - Terz section was not expanded until the Second World War and on October 17, 1940, Fritz Todt , General Inspector for German Roads, declared it a state road of the first order. From January 1, 1950, it has been a federal road again since April 1, 2002, between below Donaudörfl (Stanglbach estuary, km 34.762) to Terz (km 40.676) in Lower Austria.

Web links

• Location of the pass, terrain relief and photo , on schleppi.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lahnsattel and the surrounding area on ÖK 50 , www.austrianmap.at , Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying Austria, Austrian map.
2. ↑ Heiner Eichner, Otto Back, Peter Ernst, Sergios Katsikas: Language standardization and language planning. Festschrift for Otto Back on his 70th birthday; with articles from the fields of graphematics, orthography, onomatology, Austrian German, language standardization and planned language studies, 2nd edition, Verlag Edition Praesens, 1996, p. 161 f.
3. ↑ Decree No. 1031-Nd-4 of October 17, 1940. Published in the Ordinance and Official Gazette for the Reichsgau Niederdonau , p. 307.