Millstätter Alpe
| Millstätter Alpe | ||
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 Obermillstatt on Millstätter Berg . View to the north. In the foreground the Lärchriegel, behind it the Millstätter Alpe (around 1950). |
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| height | 2091 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Carinthia | |
| Mountains | Nockberge | |
| Dominance | 1.44 km → Kamplnock | |
| Notch height | 65 m ↓ Grünes Törl | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| rock | Mica schist , paragneiss | |
The Millstätter Alpe ( 2091 m above sea level ) is a ridge in the Nock Mountains in Carinthia north-northeast of Lake Millstatt . Between the Millstätter See and the Millstätter Alpe lies the not to be confused and much lower Millstätter Berg .
With Kamplnock ( 2101 m above sea level ), Hochpalfennock ( 2099 m above sea level ) and Tschiernock ( 2088 m above sea level ) there are three peaks of almost the same height further northwest on the ridge starting from the Millstätter Alpe. The insignificantly lower Törl ( 1905 m above sea level ) provides a transition from southeast to northwest to the Nöringsattel ( 1665 m above sea level ) and further into the Globatschbachtal to Radenthein or into the Nöringbachtal to Nöring . The ridge of the Millstätter Alpe, which is made up of " old crystalline ", has a double ridge that was created by tearing the mountain.
In 1904, magnesite was found on the northeast side, in the Globatschbach valley . Until 1965 the Austrian-American Magnesit AG (now RHI AG ) operated the quarrying of the rock in open-cast mining , in the so-called "quarry". Today the rock is only extracted underground in tunnels. Refractory materials are made from magnesite, which are particularly indispensable in the steel and iron industry, but also in the cement and glass industries.
Garnets , especially almandins, have been found on the Millstätter Alpe since ancient times . Garnets - from the Latin granum, meaning grain, because this semi-precious stone occurs in the form of a grain in the host rock - were very important gemstones in ancient times. The earliest evidence of human use so far is the discovery of a well-preserved 3000 year old lance tip from the Bronze Age , in a way that is also known from other parts of Carinthia. In the Middle Ages, garnets were called carbuncle stones because they are reminiscent of glowing coals. Grenades were mined on the Millstätter Alpe on a large scale in a ravine near Radenthein along the Kaninger Bach in Lucknergraben. Josef Hofer, born in Zell am Ziller in 1802, began underground garnet mining in 1880. The “mugled” stones were then delivered to Bohemia via the Hofer brothers' company in Zell am Ziller , where they were processed by cutters into pieces of jewelry of all kinds and then sold as “Bohemian jewelry grenades”. In 1914 the garnet mining was shut down. Especially on the ridge and the many ditches around the Millstätter Alpe, there are still many washed-out grenades, which are also known as "The Blood Drops of the Nocke".
Footnotes
- ↑ Helmut Prasch: Blood drop of the cam. - Spittal / Drau, 1972. Self-published district home museum.
- ↑ Exhibited in the Carinthia State Museum in Klagenfurt
- ↑ For exhibitions on mining on the Millstätter Alpe, see Stiftsmuseum Millstatt (magnesite) / Türgg-Haus am Mühlenweg in Kaning ober Radenthein (magnesite and garnet mining) / a room in the Museum of Folk Culture in Spittal an der Drau is dedicated to garnet mining.
