Mondseeberg

Mondseeberg
	The Mondseeberg from Schober seen from
height	1029 m above sea level A.
location	am Mondsee , Upper Austria
Mountains	Mondsee Flysch Mountains , Salzkammergut Mountains
Dominance	1.3 km → on the Radstattrücken ( 1034 m above sea level )
Notch height	37 m ↓ Radstatt
Coordinates	47 ° 51 '53 " N , 13 ° 22' 16" E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '53 " N , 13 ° 22' 16" E
rock	Flysch ( Altlengbach formation )
Age of the rock	70–50 million years ( Maastrichtian - Thanetium )
Development	Forest path

The Mondseeberg is 1029 m above sea level. A. high ridge on the north-east bank of the Mondsee in the Salzkammergut mountains of Upper Austria .

Location and landscape

The Mondseeberg , sometimes also known as the Radstattrücken , is a gentle ridge that stretches 7 kilometers from the northwest to the southeast. The summit itself is located northeast of the town of Mondsee on the municipal boundary between Tiefgraben and Oberwang . When you talk about the Mondseeberg, you usually mean the entire mountain range, the summit is only more clearly visible in the back from certain angles. The eponymous Radstatt is a 922 m above sea level. A. high saddle southeast of the summit, the actual Radstatt ridge culminates at 1034 m above sea level. A. and leads to the Kulmspitze 1095 m above sea level. A. at the southeast end, which is then the actual main summit of the Mondseeberg massif.

The southwest flank of the Mondseeberg falls directly into the lake and the village of Mondsee, and form the village of Tiefgraben , eastern part of the rural community belonging to Mondsee. Loibichl am See is located below the Kulmspitze . Here a side valley of the Mondsee surrounds the Mondseeberg, with the Innerschwand and the Oberwang turning to the north.

The altitudes of the back and the shady side are mostly wooded, the eastern and southern slopes are old farm land and today the best Sun principles of MondSeeLand , the new settlements so awfully good down to go up about 800 meters and form the peripheral areas of the market town of Mondsee.

The Westautobahn (A1) runs around the Mondseeberg from Oberwang via Innerschwand to Mondsee and has one of its most scenic sections here. The B151 leads from Mondsee to Unterach directly at the lake below the motorway . From Mondsee to the north, the L1281 Vöcklatalstraße (to the B1 at Vöcklamarkt ) climbs up , as well as some rural access roads.

To the northwest, the Mondseeberg runs out at the Hoch- / Wildmoos pass landscape ( 790 m above sea level ) into the Lackenberg ( 925 m above sea level ). The Mondseeberg forms the main summit of a mountain group in the foothills of the Alps that has remained unnamed in literature and extends in several ridges over the Saurüssel ( 958 m above sea level ) to the Attergau , the Vöcklatal and the Irrsee (Zellersee) . As the most south-westerly part of this group, the ridge branches off at the Mondseeberg summit to the Hochalm ( 925 m above sea level ) and further into the Saurüsselwald .

The boundary of the Mondseeberg in the broader sense is formed by the Steinerbach from Hochmoos to Mondsee, the Mondsee itself, the Wangauer Ache near Innerschwand and from the Oberwang, the Ruezingbach , a source brook of the Dürren Ager in the Oberwang from the Utzinggraben, and across the saddle to the Hochalm the source streams of the Vöckla , which rises in the Wildmoos.

Together with the neighboring ridge, form the massif of the Hochplett (Hochplettspitze 1135 m above sea level ) lying to the south of Mondsee and Attersee , the Rossmoos ( 1015 m above sea level ) east between Oberwang and Attersee and the frame of the Attergau they the group Flysch area between Irrsee and Attersee ( after Trimmel ). Together with the Kolomannsberg massif ( 1114 m above sea level ) running to the west, these form the Mondsee Flysch Mountains .

Geology, Hydrography and Conservation

Geologically, the Mondseeberg belongs to the flysch zone , it consists of Oberkreideflysch, namely Altlengbach formation ( Maastrichtian - Thanetian , Wende Kreide / Paleocene, 70–50 million years old). The slopes above Mondsee and the flanks of the Kulmspitze are cement marl series ( Coniacium - Campanium , middle Upper Cretaceous, approx. 90–70 million years old). On the Hochmoos and on the Riesen above Mondsee there are post-glacial gravel deposits, namely those of the last Ice Age, the Riss ice age (around 200,000 years old), above the Hochmoos also marginal moraines from this time and above even Mindel moraines (approx. 400,000 years old) marking the much more powerful earlier advance. The main mass of the Mondsee glacier of the Dachstein glacier abraded the southwest flank of the Mondseeberg, while the Oberwang and Hochmoos were shaped by side tongues. The Mondseeberg stopped as a nunatak aper during the ice ages .

There are numerous trenches and streams typical of the flysch. The slopes of the Mondseeberg are an area rich in springs. The Mondseeberg forms the watershed between Vöckla , to which Ruetzingbach - Dürre Ager also go, and the Ager with its catchment areas Attersee or the - “upside down” - inwardly moving Mondsee area, which represents the retreat area of the Mondsee glacier.

At the deepest point between Mondseeberg and Lackenberg to the north is the Wildmoos high moor . This largely untouched watershed raised bog overgrown with mountain pines is under nature protection.

literature

Office of Upper Austria. Provincial government, nature conservation department (ed.): Nature and landscape - models for Upper Austria. Volume 28: Space Unit Mondsee Flysch Mountains , revised. Version, Krems and Linz 2007. various pp., Land-oberoesterreich.gv.at (PDF; 3.51 MB).
Rainer Braunstingl: Report 1987 on geological recordings in the flysch zone on sheet 65 Mondsee. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute , 131, Vienna 1988, pp. 420–421, geologie.ac.at (PDF).
Eberhard Fugger: The Upper Austrian Pre-Alps between Irrsee and Traunsee . In: Yearbook dkk geol. Reichsanstalt , 1903, Volume 63, 2nd Issue, Chapter Der Mondsee , p. 299 ff., Especially 300 at the bottom ff (full article, p. 295–350, with panel XIV., Geologie.ac.at (PDF; there p. 6 ff.)).

Web links

Commons : Mondseeberg - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ The name of the village is quite astonishing as it is the altitude on the Mondseeberg.
↑ The foothills of the Alps remain only very roughly named in most of the mountain divisions.
↑ These include the Tannberg near Straßwalchen, which geologically belongs to the Alps, but orographically belongs to the Alpine foothills.
↑ Even older moraines are missing here, so the Mindel advance should have passed over all the older ones and was therefore the most powerful in this section of the Alps.

[1] The name of the village is quite astonishing as it is the altitude on the Mondseeberg.

[2] The foothills of the Alps remain only very roughly named in most of the mountain divisions.

[3] These include the Tannberg near Straßwalchen, which geologically belongs to the Alps, but orographically belongs to the Alpine foothills.

[4] Even older moraines are missing here, so the Mindel advance should have passed over all the older ones and was therefore the most powerful in this section of the Alps.