Mürz Valley Alps
| Mürz Valley Alps (Mürzberge) | ||
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| Highest peak | Thalerkogel ( 1655 m above sea level ) | |
| location | Styria , Austria | |
| part of | Eastern Alps | |
| Classification according to | Landscape structure of Styria N.9 | |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 30 ' N , 15 ° 23' E | |
| Type | Low mountain range | |
| surface | 590 km² | |
The Mürz Valley Alps , also called Mürzberge , are a mountain group of the Eastern Alps . They extend north of the Mur-Mürz-Furche in Upper Styria .
On the concept of the Mürz Valley Alps
The name is relatively unusual, but it is particularly common in the geography of Styria. In the landscape structure of Styria they form - recently also under the name Mürzberge , analogous to the Murberg mountains - the region N.9.
They are assigned to the Northern Alps , whereby they form the southern foothills of the Styrian-Lower Austrian Limestone Alps , geologically they belong partly to the Grauwackenzone , partly to the Central Alps .
In the Alpine Club division of the Eastern Alps (AVE) they correspond to the southern groups of the Ennstaler Alps (16), the templates of the Hochschwab group (18), the southern part of the Mürzsteg Alps (19) and the foothills of the Rax-Schneeberg group (20) .
geography
The Mürz Valley Alps extend from Sankt Michael in Obersteiermark , at the confluence of the Liesingtal into the Murtal, eastward, north of the Mur ( orographic left ) and Mürz (right), to the Semmering Pass . It is a wooded mountain range , divided by several transverse valleys, with a low mountain range character , which accompanies the easternmost massifs of the limestone high Alps to the south. The highest point is the Thalerkogel at 1655 m above sea level. A.
Eastern foothills near Leoben
near Kapfenberg
Height of Rötz near Hafning
Boundary and neighboring mountain groups
The boundary is formed in the south by the eastern Mur-Mürz furrow , in the north by the incompletely developed longitudinal valley and basin lines of the Trofaiacher and Aflenz basins . The border runs:
- in the south:
- Down the Mur from Sankt Michael das Obere (Middle) Murtal ∗ to Leoben to Gleinalpe (R.4), part of the Lavanttaler Alps (AVE 46b)
- the Mur to Bruck an der Mur ( 468 m above sea level ) to the Hochalpe (R.4a), part of the Lavanttal Alps
- up the Mürz via Kapfenberg ( Lower Mürz Valley ) ∗ to Mürzzuschlag ( Middle Mürz Valley ) ∗ - Fröschnitzbach to the Semmering Pass ( 984 m above sea level ) to the Fischbach Alps (R.7), part of the peripheral mountains east of the Mur (AVE 47)
- in the east: main ridge of the Semmering mountains (via Tratenkogel 1565 m above sea level ) to Preiner Gscheid ( 1070 m above sea level ) ∗∗
- in the North:
- Raxenbach to Kapellen ( 703 m above sea level ) to Rax (N.8c) ∗∗
- Mürz upwards ( Upper Mürz Valley ) to Lechen (near Neuberg) to the Schneealpe (N.8c)
- Arzbach - Nikolauskreuz ( 1148 m above sea level ) - Großer Massingbach to Hansbauer ( 840 m above sea level ) - Veitschegg ( 1020 m above sea level ) - Schwarzenbach - Kleine Veitsch to Veitsch ( 669 m above sea level ) - Große Veitsch (upwards) to Magnesitwerk - Pretalgraben to Pretalsattel ( 1068 m above sea level ) - Stübmingbach to Turnau to the Veitschalpe (N.8b)
- Stübmingbach to Thörl (around 630 m above sea level ) ∗∗∗ to the Hochschwab group (N.5, i. W. S. AVE 18)
- Ilgner Bach ∗∗∗ (upwards) to Schweighart - Hubostingbach - Grubeck (approx. 1190 m above sea level ) - Haringbach (mouth in Oberort near Tragöß ) - Laming to Pichl-Großdorf ( 744 m above sea level ) - Hiaslegg ( 1154 m above sea level ) - Rötzbach down to Höller (approx. 850 m above sea level ) - Hohe Rötz ( 1064 m above sea level ) - Vordernberg - Vordernberger Bach down to Hafning to the Eisenerzer Alps (N.4)
- Trofaiach pool **** - Seiz im Liesingtal to Reitingstock ( Gößeck , N.4a)
- in the west: Liesingtal to St. Michael ∗ to the Seckauer Tauern (NT.3, AVE 45d)
- ∗ for topographical reasons according to the Styrian landscape structure on the valley slope, the valley floors are independent zones: T.7, B.6, B.7 and T.6 respectively
- ∗∗according to the Styrian landscape structure, orographically about Myrtengraben - Heidbach - Auebach upwards - to the Preiner Bach in Lower Austria. According to the Styrian division, the Rax itself still belongs to the Mürzsteg Alps (N.8d), according to AVE not, where the Semmering Mountains belong to the Rax-Schneeberg Group (19)
- ∗∗∗from Stübming to Etmißl on the southern edge of the Aflenz basin (B.5), including the Mitterberg and Schöckel north of Thörl, but leaving out Etmißl itself
- ∗∗∗∗Precisely from Hafning to the east, crossing the lower Rötzgraben to the Laintalbach near Laintal III - back southwest - then westwards via Wolkersdorf - Gmeingrube - St. Peter-Freienstein - Traidersberg - Trabocher See - Veitscherwald - Seiz This route saves the Trofaiach basin with its limestone zones from, especially the Kulm . Orographically about Vordernberger Bach - valley floor of the Trofaiach basin - lower Ploderbach .
structure
The train is broken by several transverse valleys:
- from Liesingtal to the lower Vordernbergertal the small group rises Tannkogel - Traidersberg - Schillerhoehe , wherein the Tannkogel ( Veit shear forest ) again by the Trabocher lake is excreted
- from the Vordenbergertal to the Lamingtal, the two groups around Kletschachkogel and Thalerkogel
- from the Lamingtal to the lower Thörlbach the Floning group
- from Thörlbach to the Obere Mürz valley the Zeberer - Hochegg - Troiseck - Rosskogel train (together with the floning itself referred to as the floning train )
- from the Mürz to the east the Semmering area
geology
In the far west, the Mürz Valley Alps consist of weakly metamorphic rocks from the Grauwackenzone. This stretches in a wedge shape from the Liesingtal to Kindberg, as well as to Thörl, with formations also continuing from the west of the Liesing. The zone is known for its mineral resources, in addition to the predominant slate ( phyllite , green stone ) there are also old limes ( Leoben lime works ), in the far south there are also gneisses (mining near St. Michael), magnesite and talc deposits in Obertal ( Oberdorf magnesite mine ) . In it you can find Inneralpines Young Tertiary. with lignite in the Trofaiacher basin, in the Urgental near Bruck, near Parschlug , and also the Leoben Tertiary with the Leoben bright coal mining (Seegraben, Tollinggraben, until 1964),
In the center it consists of higher metamorphic central alpine crystalline, paragneiss on the northern roof, eye gneiss on the southern flank, with a vein of Kapellen slate in between .
Towards the east, the tectonics become complex again, here mica schists appear, which belong to the envelope slate series , Semmering quartzite , Alpine Verruciano , and then the carbonate rocks of the Semmering Mesozoic .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b after Digitaler Atlas Steiermark. Flora & fauna in the landscape structures layer .
- ↑ a b c N.9 Mürz Valley Alps (Northern Alps) . In: Umweltinformation Steiermark | Nature and landscape | Landscape structure , State of Styria.
- ↑ Bright coal mining Leoben-Seegraben . Tourismus-leoben.at