Mödringbergzug
| Mödringbergzug | |
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 Mödringbergzug near St. Peter ob Gurk |
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| Highest peak | Dorferecken ( 1726 m above sea level ) |
| location | Carinthia , Austria |
| part of | Gurktal Alps |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 56 ' N , 14 ° 4' E |
The Carinthian mountain range that separates the Gurk and Metnitztal valleys is called the Mödringbergzug . It is part of the Gurktal Alps and runs east-west. The height of the mountain range rises continuously from east to west and reaches its highest point at 1726 m at the village corners. The Mödringberg range is therefore classified as a low mountain range , as the tree line is not exceeded.
geography
The eastern boundary is the lower Metnitztal between Friesach and Zwischenwässern, where the Metnitz flows into the Gurk . The valley floor of the Gurk connects to the south, from which the Glödnitztal branches off to the north at Klein-Glödnitz and thus represents the western limit of the Mödringberg range. The Metnitz rises a little east of the Flattnitz , the course of which to Friesach represents the northern edge.
The following communities have a share in this mountain range (clockwise): Metnitz , Friesach , Micheldorf , Strasbourg , Gurk , Weitensfeld and Glödnitz .
traffic
There is only one crossing over the Mödringbergzug intended for public transport, namely over the 1174 m high Prekova (the Carinthian state road L62c). This connects Feistritz or Grades in the north with Strasbourg in the south.
geology
The Gurktal Alps essentially consist of three tectonic nappes : at the bottom the “ mica slate ceiling”, above the “Murau ceiling” and above the “ Stolzalpen ceiling ”. The deepest of these ceilings consists primarily of garnet mica schist , the middle one of " green schist " (converted volcanic rock), " phyllite " (converted clayey deposits) and marbles (converted limestone), all of which were originally about 500 to 400 million years old. The highest, the uppermost ceiling, the Stolzalpen ceiling, originally consists of rocks of about the same age, but which are less transformed and which are present today as clay slate , "meta- volcanic rocks " and limestone .
The rocks of the "mica slate ceiling" (also "diaphthoritic mica slate") occur z. B. in the immediate vicinity of Strasbourg and extend from there to the vicinity of St. Jakob ob Gurk , namely in the deepest layers of Schneßnitz (Solderniggraben, Höfe vulgo Gerolter and Tschnutnig). The rocks of the highest ceiling, the Stolzalpen ceiling occur z. B. at Weitensfeld (north, west and south of it) and occur in the east to the Holzerriegel at Zweinitz.
The rocks of St. Jakob and its immediate surroundings belong to the "Murau ceiling". It is primarily green slate and phyllite, the latter rather dark, even black, so-called graphite phyllite. A large part of the areas in and around St. Jakob take up “very young” (younger than 1 million years) weathering and debris coverings.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Kleinschmidt , Andreas Mann, Thomas Angerer, Carsten Laukamp, Anna Leonhard: Report 1997 and 1998 on geological recordings on sheet 185 Strasbourg - Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute - 142 . 2000, p. 405–408 ( PDF on ZOBODAT - summary by Prof. Kleinschmidt from June 28, 2020 ).