Neustadtler Platte
| Neustadtler Platte | ||
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| Highest peak | Brandstetterkogel ( 569 m above sea level ) | |
| location | Lower Austria | |
| part of | Bohemian mass | |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 12 '20 " N , 14 ° 54' 10" E | |
| rock | granite | |
The Neustadtler Platte (more correctly also Neustadtler Bergland ) in the district of Amstetten in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria is a hilly landscape that rises at 420 m above sea level. A. up to 570 m above sea level A. forms a hilly high plateau with protruding peaks .
description
Geologically, it represents a southern branch of the Bohemian Massif , which was separated from the granite and gneiss highlands of the Mühlviertel and Waldviertel by the Danube breakthrough valley known as Strudengau .
The highest elevations are the Brandstetterkogel at 569 m above sea level. A. and the summit stone at 519 m above sea level. A. There are rocky knolls and boulder blocks .
The main town of the region is the Neustadtl an der Donau market , whose center is at an altitude of 509 m above sea level. A. is located, while the localities of the municipality lying along the Danube are about 230 m above sea level. A. up to 240 m above sea level A. have. The predominant form of settlement are individual farmsteads.
The Neustadtler Platte belongs to the Lower Austrian landscape protection area Strudengau and the surrounding area . The densely forested slopes of the Strudengau , steeply sloping towards the Danube, are part of the FFH area Strudengau - Nibelungengau .
In addition to regional hiking trails such as the Matrassteig , the Neustadtler Platte is supported by the long-distance hiking trails Donau-Höhen-Rundwanderweg (from Passau to Ybbs an der Donau ) and Jakobsweg Austria . On a crest of the Brandstetterkogel stands at an altitude of 532 m above sea level. A. the Viktoria-Adelheid-Schutzhütte .
Occasionally there are so-called cover caves, these are granite blocks that, wedged into one another and lying on top of one another, form cave-like passages. The better known are the Steinerne Stube and the Matrassteig pass.
Web links
- Entry on Neustadtler Platte in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Homepage of the market community Neustadtl an der Donau
- Cup stones
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marktgemeinde Neustadtl an der Donau: Hiking map 1: 25000 and local maps 1: 12500, ISBN 9783705619340
- ^ Reinhard and Walter Fischer, Wilhelm Hartmann: Caves in the subgroup 1874 - Neustadtler Platte (correct Neustadtler Bergland), in: Höhlenkundliche Mitteilungen des Landesverein für Höhlenkunde in Vienna and Niederösterreich, issue 11/1993 Höhlenkundliche Mitteilungen: Höhlen Neustadtler Bergland