Wet comb

Wet comb
Compass direction	Northeast	southwest
Pass height	1210  m above sea level A.
region	Lower Austria : Schwarzatal	Styria : Mürz Valley
Watershed	Reissbach	Altenberger Bach
Valley locations	Hinternaßwald	Altenberg on the Rax
Mountains	Rax-Schneeberg-Gruppe ( Rax ) / Mürzsteger Alps ( Schneealpe )
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Coordinates	47 ° 42 '45 "  N , 15 ° 39' 44"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '45 "  N , 15 ° 39' 44"  E

The wet comb is a 1210  m above sea level. A. high mountain pass on the border between Styria and Lower Austria , which connects the Rax with the Schneealpe .

geography

The Naßkamm lies in the main ridge of the Styrian-Lower Austrian Limestone Alps between the rearmost Naßbachtal , a side valley of the Lower Austrian Schwarza Valley in the northeast, and the Altenberg Valley, a side valley of the Styrian Mürz Valley . The saddle stretches as a sharp ridge from the Amaißbichl  ( 1828  m above sea level ), an eastern secondary summit of the Schneealpstock, west to south-west down to the actual pass summit, and then southwest and south up to the Gamseck  ( 1857  m above sea level ). , the northern foothills of the Heukuppe on the western edge of the Rax plateau.

The north-western flank of the ridge falls steeply to the Rehboden, the southern end of the Naßbachtal valley, here the Reißbach rises below the Kote 1320, north of the Gamperl two ridges run to Hinternaßwald and the Wasseralm , in between the Karlalmbach and Wasseralmquelle flow to the upper Nassbach . The Reissbach goes north, the Nassbach initially eastwards, and from Hinternaßwald, where it takes up the Reissbach, northeastwards out into the Schwarzatal. On the other side the Naßwand stretches to the Schneealpstock, at the saddle the Altenberger Bach rises in the Höflerquelle , which runs southwest over the area In der Naß and Altenberg an der Rax to Mürz.

The Naßkamm forms the border between Lower Austria and Styria , the border between the communities of Schwarzau im Gebirge and Neuberg an der Mürz , as well as the border between the Rax-Schneeberg Group and the Mürzsteg Alps . It also forms the watershed between Leitha and Mur , two tributaries of the Danube.

geology

The wet ridge is eroded between the Wetterstein dolomites and limestone massifs from Rax and Schneealpe to the limestone alpine base of the Werfen layers . Werfener Kalk can still be found on both sides around the saddle point, which itself cuts into the underlying Werfener slate. The layers of the Oberostalpin can be seen in the walls of the Altenbergertal . The schisty rock causes the abundance of water and springs on both sides of the pass.

History and ways

Silver is said to have been mined on the Naßkamm in the early 17th century (at the time of the Thirty Years War), before the founding of Naßwald .

The pass is a well-known alternative route to the Gscheidlhöhe from the Schwarzatal into Styria. The ascent towards Schneealpe is easy, the way to the Rax was only laid out in 1875 by the Austrian Tourist Club. Today the Nordalpenweg (long-distance hiking trail 01) runs along the ridge .

When planning the 1st Vienna High Spring Pipeline before 1870, a guided tour with a tunnel through the Naßkamm (or the Preiner Gscheid ) was discussed, but was rejected because it was technically impracticable at the time. At that time only the Naßwalder springs up to the Wasseralm were opened up. It was not until 1965–1968 that the high spring pipeline was then extended to Styria with the snow alpine tunnel . This runs exactly below the Amaißbichl.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} This description follows the Austrian map 1: 50000 (there also height; coordinates according to Geonam database),
   and (without author) barometric height determination from the vicinity of Gutenstein, Puchberg and Hohenberg. In: Blätter für Landeskunde von Niederösterreich 1865, p. 119 (full article p. 119–122; digitized version , Google, full view );
   the exact extent of the name wet comb on the ridge line remains unclear.
2. ^ Karl Kolar: Georg Hubmer and the founding of Naßwald. In: Yearbook of the German Alpine Association 1967. p. 83 (whole article p. 77–93; whole booklet, pdf , dav-bibliothek.de; there p. 95).
3. ↑ Hunter's Tourist. Organ for tourism and alpine studies. VII. Year, No. 7 & 8, Verlag Beck, Vienna 1875, section Communications from near and far , p. 277 f ( digitized, Google, complete view ).
4. ^ City of Vienna (ed.): The second Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Hochquellenleitung of the City of Vienna. A commemorative publication for December 2, 1910. Gerlach & Wiedlin Verlag, Vienna 1910, p. 22 ( link to download , wienbibliothek.at).
5. ↑ Traugott E. Gattinger: Geology and construction history of the snow alpine tunnel of the I. Vienna high spring pipeline (Styria-Lower Austria). (= Abhandlungen der Geologische Bundesanstalt. Volume 30), 1973, p. 88 ( full article pdf , geologie.ac.at).