Niederung (municipality of Leoben)

Lowland ( scattered houses )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Leoben  (LE), Styria
Judicial district	Leoben
Pole. local community	Sankt Peter-Freienstein   ( KG  Traidersberg )
Locality	Traidersberg
Coordinates	47 ° 22 ′ 31 ″  N , 15 ° 1 ′ 19 ″  E Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 31 ″  N , 15 ° 1 ′ 19 ″  E
height	866  m above sea level A.
Building status	15 (2013, addresses)
Post Code	8792 St. Peter-Freienstein
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	St.Peter area (61 114 003)
With Bartelbauer, Hieger, Riener ; Locations On the lowland in the municipality of Leoben Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

The valley is a high altitude on the southwestern edge of the Eisenerz Alps in Upper Styria , and as a lowland village component of Sankt Peter-Freienstein , as on the lowland village component of the municipality of Leoben in Leoben District of Styria .

geography

On the lowland ( scattered houses )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Leoben  (LE), Styria
Judicial district	Leoben
Pole. local community	Leoben   ( KG  Donawitz , Leitendorf )
Locality	Donawitz , Hinterberg
Coordinates	47 ° 22 ′ 1 ″  N , 15 ° 2 ′ 40 ″  E
height	785  m above sea level A.
Residents of the stat. An H.	100 (2001)
Building status	42 (2001)
Post Code	8700 Leoben
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	On the lowland (61 108 103)
With farmer on the heights, Haberl, Rappolt ; Location of the lowland in St. Peter-Freienstein Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

The lowland forms the core of the small mountain range between the Murtal near Sankt Michael and Leoben in the south, the Untere Vordernbergertal and Trofaiach Basin in the northeast and north, and the Liesingtal in the west, which forms the western end of the Mürz Valley Alps . The pass landscape is about 5 kilometers west of the Leoben town center, above the valley of the Talbach near Donawitz .

The entire altitude is called lowland , the scattered settlement comprises around 60 buildings with around 130 inhabitants, the majority in the Leoben area.
On the lowland , the scattered layers on the ridge are called Schillerhöhe  ( 924  m above sea level ) - Galgenberg  ( 791  m above sea level ), the Riedl between Vordernberger Bach and Mur in the south, at heights of 780  m above sea level. A. , 200 meters above the city. The location also includes the farmsteads Bauer auf der Höhe , Rappolt and Haberl . The place belongs largely to Donawitz , the locations south of the ridge are in the cadastral municipality of Leitendorf and belong to the village of Hinterberg down in the Murtal. The scattered houses form a separate statistical census district of the city (103, census district Ländl. Surrounding area )
The place name continues as the village Niederung in the municipality of St. Peter-Freienstein up to Traidersberg  ( 987  m above sea level ). This scattered location includes Hieger, Riener and Bartelbauer and belongs to the village and cadastral community of Traidersberg of St. Peter. Then to the south around the Sonnberg  ( 931  m above sea level ) lies Bergling .

Neighboring places

Traboch (Gem. Traboch)	Traidersberg (Gem. St. Peter-Frst.)	Donawitz (Gem. Leoben) In the valley (Gem. Leoben)
		Waasen (Gem. Leoben) Leitendorf (Gem. Leoben)
Stadlhof (district of Traboch)	Bergling (Gem. St. Peter-Frst.)	Hinterberg (Gem. Leoben)

Trofaiach basin , view from Gßeck southeast towards Leoben - Donawitz : in the middle right the Traidersberg lowlands area, in front of it the Veitscherwald .

History, infrastructure and tourism

The area used to be an important climb from Traboch and Sankt Michael (via Jassing ) to Leoben as well as (via Schafbergsattel ) to Trofaiach and, after the start of the iron industry, in particular Donawitz, who was able to shorten the detour through the Murtal or the Vordernberger Tal . The Höhenweg is still preserved as a municipal road on the Niederung (Niederungsweg) , via Bergling (Traidersbergweg) , up from Donawitz-Im Tal (also Traidersbergweg ) and to Sankt Peter (Tanzbergweg) , but the descent from the chapel on the Niederung to Traboch is still there just a walk away.

Today the area is a popular local recreation area, the path over the lowland is a cycle path (LN9, as part of the HerzBergLand tourism association ),

The way to Traboch in the Liesingtal is a marked hiking trail. In addition, the north-south long-distance hiking trail (Austrian long -distance hiking trail 05) leads through the area: from Trabocher See up south, via Kapelle and Bergling, and then eastwards via Rappolt on the Schillerhöhe and the Bauer auf dem Höhe down to the Leoben lime works and to Waasen (around km 100 of the route from Mariazell to Eibiswald).

proof

• 61108 - Leoben. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• 61114 - Sankt Peter-Freienstein. Community data, Statistics Austria .

1. ↑ Georg Goeth : The Duchy of Styria: geographically-statistically-topographically represented and provided with historical explanations . tape 2 . Verlag JG Heubner, Vienna 1841, 18th district Massenberg 2nd tax municipality Traboch and 19th district Leoben 2nd tax municipality Donawitz , p. 293 resp. 313 ( Google eBook, full view ).
2. ↑ Leoben: Max Reich: Walks through the city and its surroundings along with historical forays. Ludwig Nüssler, 1901, p. 27
3. ↑ From the blast furnace to the lowlands . No. 17 in: Günter Auferbauer, Luise Auferbauer: Styria: From the Salzkammergut to the wine and thermal region. Radwanderführer, 3rd edition, Bergverlag Rother, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7633-5004-9 , p. 56 ff ( Google eBook, full view ).
4. ↑ LN 9 Niederung , Herzbergland. at
5. ↑ Erika Käfer, Fritz Käfer: Long-distance hiking trail 05. From the Waldviertel highlands to the Windischen Büheln . Ed .: ÖAV, Alpine Association for long-distance hikers . 2008, section Trofaiach (658 m) - Leoben (541 m) . Eduard Dattler, Carl Hermann, Fritz Käfer: 05 Long- distance hiking trail. North south . 5th edition. Styria, Graz 1998, ISBN 978-3-222-12571-3 . ; North-south long-distance hiking trail 05 , bergfex.at