Lienz valley floor
 
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The valley of Lienz (also Lienz basin ) is a broad valley around the eponymous town of Lienz in East Tyrol .
geography
The Lienz valley floor is located at the confluence of the Iseltal coming from the northwest into the Drau valley, which runs in a west-east direction, at around 670 m above sea level. A. It extends from Oberlienz in the west and Leisach in the southwest to the Kärntner Tor , a narrowing of the Drau valley on the border with Carinthia. The basin is bordered in the south by the steeply sloping Lienz Dolomites , in the west by the Villgraten Mountains with the Hochstein ( 2057 m ) and in the north and northeast by the foothills of the Schobergruppe with the Schleinitz ( 2904 m ).
geology
The Lienz Basin was created in the Tertiary during the formation of the Alps . While the Schobergruppe and Villgraten Mountains in the north and west are mainly made up of slate gneiss , mica schist and quartz phyllites , the Lienz Dolomites in the south consist of Triassic and Jurassic limestone and dolomite . The pelvis was filled with younger, partly diluvial , partly alluvial deposits. In the southern part around Amlach and Tristach there are glacial deposits, in the west and north deposits of the coarse Drau and Isel river gravel, which merge into sandy and fine sandy deposits to the east. During the Ice Ages in the Quaternary , the basin was cleared out and backfilled several times, giving it a complex, largely unknown structure.
Settlement
The Lienz valley floor includes the municipalities of Oberlienz , Thurn , Gaimberg , Lienz , Nußdorf-Debant , Dölsach , Iselsberg-Stronach , Nikolsdorf , Lavant , Tristach , Amlach and Leisach. The city of Lienz is centrally located at the confluence of the Isel in the Drau, the old town centers of the villages around Lienz are mostly elevated on the alluvial cones of the flowing streams. The south-facing slopes in the north of the basin are partially populated up to an altitude of 1300 m .
The Lienz valley floor represents the main settlement and economic area of the Lienz district, in which around half of the population of East Tyrol lives. Together with the communities of Assling , Ainet and Schlaiten further up the Isel and upstream, these communities form the Tyrolean Planning Association 36 Lienz and the surrounding area .
The Lienzer Talboden is an important traffic junction where the Drautalstraße from Villach to the South Tyrolean border meets the Felbertauernstraße , the most important connection to North Tyrol , and also where the Großglocknerstraße branches off, which leads over the Iselsberg into the upper Mölltal .
Settlement history
Traces of settlement from the late Neolithic to the early Iron Age have been found on the Breitegg in the municipality of Nussdorf-Debant . A Laiancer settlement developed in Roman times into the town of Aguntum on the valley floor in what is now the municipalities of Nussdorf-Debant and Dölsach. In the early Middle Ages, the settlement center shifted to the Kirchbichl in Lavant, where early Christian churches were built from the 5th century onwards.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Nikolaus Anderle: To the knowledge of the groundwater conditions in the area of Lienz, Villach, Klagenfurt and Wolfsberg. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute, Volume 97 (1954), pp. 337–366 ( PDF; 1.7 MB )
- ↑ Seismic measurements in the Lienz basin. Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, 2016 ( PDF; 990 kB )
- ↑ The Kirchbichl of Lavant (East Tyrol). Institute for Archeology / Classical and Provincial Roman Archeology, University of Innsbruck, 2003