Murberge

Murberge (Tamsweg-Seckauer Höhenzug, Stolzalpenzug)
Highest peak	Gstoder ( 2140  m above sea level )
location	Styria and Salzburg , Austria
part of	Lower Tauern , Central Eastern Alps (Central Alps)
Classification according to	Landscape structure of Styria  Z.1
Coordinates	47 ° 10 ′  N , 14 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 10 ′  N , 14 ° 15 ′  E

The Murberge (also Tamsweg-Seckauer Höhenzug or Stolzalpenzug ) are around 60 kilometers long mountain range in the Central Alps . They form the transition from the Niedere Tauern to the Gurktal Alps and are located in the Austrian federal states of Salzburg and Styria . The highest elevation is at 2140  m above sea level. A. the Gstoder in the small part of Salzburg.

Location and landscape

The Murbergs extend from the Tamsweg Basin to the Judenburg-Knittelfelder Basin near Zeltweg . They are trains with an inner-alpine low mountain range that accompanies the Mur in the narrow Upper Mur Valley in Lungau and Upper Styria to the north. They are structured by distinctive contour lines, and are therefore a series of several mountain sticks.

Classification, demarcation and neighboring mountain groups

The name Murberge is not customary in the area, but was used as early as the 19th century. The name Tamsweg-Seckauer Höhenzug goes back to Böhm (1887) , Strzygowskj coined the name Stolzalpenzug in 1951 .

The northern border is the Murparalleltal , an incomplete valley range that extends almost from the Hohe Tauern to beyond the Semmering north of the Mur-Mürz-Furche . It goes here:

Tamsweg an der Mur - Leißnitzbach via Sauerfeld - Schwarzenbichl (saddle from Seetal, approx.  1240  m ) - Seetaler Bach (Rantental) - valley crossing at Rantenbach near Ocherling - Künstenbach to Schöder - Schöderbach to St. Peter am Kammersberg - Urtlbach - Kammersberger Höhe ( Buttererkreuz  1072  m above sea level ) - Eselsbergbach to Oberwölz - Schöttlbach - Salchauer Bach - Sattel bei Dürregger (approx.  1225  m ) - Raggasbach - Schönbergerbach - Hocheggersattel  ( 1318  m above sea level ) - Gföllbach - Blahbach - Unterzeiring in the Pölstal

The southern boundary forms the Mur , upwards from Zeltweg .

On the Salzburg side, the lower Thomatalbach is also seen as the southern border in the west (Murtal from St. Margarethen im Lungau to Tamsweg as the northern border), with which the Schwarzenberg ( Hochkopf  1779  m above sea level ) still belongs to the north of Thomatal ; Because it lies south of the Mur, this mountain is usually counted as part of the Nock Mountains of the Gurktal Alps. Styrian hand, you do not draw the line over black Bichl (Valley), but north Prebersee ( Prebersattel  1527  m above sea A.. ) - Rantenbach ( Krakautal ) - Krakauebene - Arts Bach ; thus the Überling ridge ( Weidschober  1709  m above sea level ) still falls into the group.

In the landscape structure of Styria , they form one of the sub-groups of the Central Alps  (Z.1), and are not assigned to the Lower Tauern  (NT), their pre-storage. Johann Sölch already pointed out in 1928 in his landscape structure that it belongs to the Carinthian low mountain range ( Gurktal Alps and neighboring groups), not the Tauern . Despite their scenic and geological independence, the Murberg Mountains are assigned to the adjacent Tauern groups to the north in orographic classification systems (such as the AVE ): They are divided by several breakthrough valleys, in particular the Wölzer Bach, separating the Schladminger Tauern to the northwest and the Wölzer Tauern to the northeast, orographically assigns them to these two Groups too.

On the eastern borders of the lower Pölsen the Gaaler ridge of the Seckau Alps on. In the far west, when the border is drawn near St. Margarethen, the Murberg Mountains also meet the Hochfeindzug , the south-west foothills of the Radstädter Tauern .

Customarily, the mountains south of the Mur are also included in the Mur Mountains ( Murau Alps in the broader sense), which includes in particular the Metnitzer Mountains (Mur up to Stadl / Flattnitzer Höhe) and partly also the northern Nock Mountains of the Gurktal Alps, but generally not the Seetal Alps southeast (Mur to Teufenbach / Neumarkter Sattel). The concept of the Murau Mountains according to Trimmel is more restricted .

Outline and summit

Gstoder , summit corridor

Pleschaitz

The group is divided into several massifs at Rantenbach , Katschbach and Wölzer Bach and with the delimitation at St. Margarethen also the Mur, which break through from northwest to southeast. The most important peaks of the Murberge from west to east:

Surname	country	height	group	Assignment too
Hochkopf	Salzburg	1779	Schwarzenberg	Gurktal Alps: Nockberge
Lasaberg	Salzburg	1935	Gstoder
Wenger head	Salzburg / Styria	1797	Überling train	Schladminger Tauern: Preber Group
Weidschober	Salzburg / Styria	1789	Überling train
Gstoder	Salzburg / Styria	2140	Gstoder	Schladminger Tauern: Preber Group
Kramerkogel	Styria	1802	Gstoder
Pride alpe	Styria	1817	Pride alpe	Schladminger Tauern: Knallstein Group
Pleschaitz	Styria	1797	Pleschaitz	Wölzer Tauern: Schoberspitzengruppe
Buck jerk	Styria	1763	Buck jerk	Wölzer Tauern: Pusterwald Mountains
Schwarzkogel	Styria	1627	Buck jerk
Habring	Styria	1497	Buck jerk

Web links

• Z.1 Murberge. Umwelt.steiermark.at → Landscape structure.
• D.1 Murparalleltal. Umwelt.steiermark.at → Climate regions.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Gerhard Karl Lieb: A regional division of Styria due to natural conditions. In: Communications from the Botany Department of the Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz 20 (1991), p. 23, full article, p. 1–30, PDF on ZOBODAT
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Erich Seefeldner: Salzburg and its landscapes . 1961, Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, pp. 335 and 350.
3. ↑ For example Albrecht Penck , Eduart Brückner : The Alps in the Ice Age. Leipzig (1901), 2nd edition 1909, p. 1126
4. ↑ August von Böhm : Classification of the Eastern Alps . In: A. Penck (Ed.): Geographische Abhandlungen . tape 1 . Eduard Hölzel, Vienna 1887 (1 multicolored map 1: 1,000,000). Revised Carl Diener : The Mountain Construction of the Western Alps . Tempsky / Freytag, Prague 1891.
5. ↑ W. Strzygowskj: The division of the Eastern Alps into mountain groups and valley landscapes . In: Geographical Studies (Festschrift J. Sölch) . Vienna 1951, p. 167-183 .
6. ↑ Course follows GIS-Styria, see Z.1 Murberge. Umwelt.steiermark.at → Landscape structure.
7. ↑ The mountain group structure according to Trimmel draws the border here Rantenbach - Krakaudorf , so that the Kalvarienberg  ( 1306  m above sea level ) falls into the Murau mountains .
8. ^ Johann Sölch: The land formation of Styria. Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz, 1928 (book review in: Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographische Gesellschaft vol. 72, 1929, p. 405 f, eReader , ANNO).
9. ↑ In the 19th century, the Murau Alps were only given south of the Mur in the eastern Gurktal Alps, highest elevation Kuhalpe ( Grebenzen 1892 m); the Nockberge (western Gurktal Alps) were called the Stang Alps or the Kremser Alps ;
   Heinrich Beitzke: The Alps, a geographical-historical picture. Verlag CF Post, 1843, Kärnthnisch-Steyrische Alpen , pp. 654 ff ( Google eBook, full view );
   Murau Alps. In: Pierer's Universal Lexikon , Volume 11. Altenburg 1860, p. 559 (on zeno.org).