Upper Mürz Valley
| Upper Mürz Valley (Neubergertal) | ||
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 Mürz valley near Neuberg, with the pen |
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| location | Upper Styria | |
| Waters | Mürz , with silence Mürz and cold Mürz | |
| Mountains | Mürzsteg Alps , Rax-Schneeberg Group | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 42 ′ N , 15 ° 29 ′ E | |
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| Type | Breakthrough valley | |
| length | Airline distance approx. 20 km | |
The Upper Mürz Valley , also known as Neubergertal , is the valley on the upper reaches of the Mürz in Styria and Lower Austria .
geography
The upper Mürz valley is a side valley of the Mur-Mürz-Furche , the alpine longitudinal valley from the upper Mur over the Mürz to the Semmering . This runs roughly in a west-east direction between the Northern Alps and the Central Alps . The upper Mürztal branches off from the main part of the Mürztals in Mürzzuschlag - below the Semmering - to the north. It is the breakthrough valley of the Mürz through the main mass of the Lower Austrian-Styrian Limestone Alps .
To the west of the valley are the Veitsch and Tonionalpe , to the east of the Rax and Schneealpe . The valley stretches for a good 20 kilometers as the crow flies to the north in an S-shape and ends at the foot of the Gippel-Göller train . Along the valley are chapels , Neuberg as the main town next to Mürzzuschlag, Krampen , Mürzsteg and Frein . Since the municipal structural reform in 2015 , most of the upper Mürz Valley has been part of the greater municipality of Neuberg an der Mürz , the entrance to the valley belongs to Mürzzuschlag (locality Kohleben ), the upper end of the valley to St. Aegyd am Neuwalde ( Neuwald , Kaltwagl , Lahnsattel ).
The valley is divided by the gorge on the Toten Weib between Mürzsteg and Frein, for the uppermost part there is also the name Freintal , for the lower Neuberger Tal - but Frein has belonged to Mürzsteg since 1948, so that today you can also see the entire upper Mürz Valley Neubergertal named, reinforced by the unification of all communities in the valley to form the greater community of Neuberg in 2015.
Important secondary valleys are the Altenbergertal at Kapellen eastward between Rax and Schneealpe, with Altenberg and the secondary valley of the Raxen to Preiner Gscheid in the middle Schwarzatal , the Arzbach valley near Lechen westward into the Veitsch, and the valley to the Niederalpl near Mürzsteg westward between Veitsch and Tonion in the Mariazeller Aschbachtal . Above Frein near Neuberg , on the Lower Austrian border, the valley splits into the two source valleys of Kalter Mürz on the northern roof of the Schneealpe, Stiller Mürz on Göller and Gippel, and the valley to Lahnsattel , which runs into the uppermost Salzatal near St. Aegyd and Mariazell- Halltall directs.
climate
The climate is inner-alpine , moderately cold in winter and moderately warm in summer, and due to the mountain shielding it is less snowy than the Mariazeller basin , but has more precipitation than the actual Mürz Valley (annual rainfall in the Bruck about 800 mm, in Mürzzuschlag a good 1000 mm, in the Mürzsteg over 1200 mm, in Mariazell almost 1100 mm). In the widened areas it is a little bit susceptible to frost and inversions , the altitude is somewhat favorable in terms of the duration of sunshine.
History, Economy and Transport
The center of the valley is Neuberg, where the Habsburgs founded the Cistercian monastery as early as 1327 . The valley was shaped for a long time by the timber industry and the ironmongery industry . The Cistercians have operated a few small smelters and the iron trade since they were founded. But it was not until the later 18th century that major mining began, which after the abolition of the monastery in Josephinism by the k. k. Styrian religious fund was operated, in 1800 it became state property ( Montan-Aerar ), and in 1869 it was privatized and taken over by the Neuberg-Mariazeller union , then the Alpine Montan-A.-G. was conducted. A dismantling for the cast works in Mariazell was carried out on the Alpl .
The heyday of iron smelting was around the middle of the 19th century, around the turn of the century the deposits in the area were exhausted and shut down. In addition, other raw materials were also mined.
The B23 Lahnsattelstraße leads through the valley from the Mürz Valley ( S6 , L118 ) over the Lahnsattel to Terz , where the B21 connects Mariazellerland with Traisental . To the west, the L113 Niederalplstraße leads to the B20 (Gußwerk-Seebergsattel), to the east the L103 / L135 Preinergscheidstraße to the B27 near Reichenau .
The Mürzzuschlag – Neuberg local railway , which was built in 1879, also opened up the valley until 2000 and served, among other things, a sawmill of the Austrian Federal Forests in Neuberg and a location for the Veitscher Magnesitwerke .
literature
- Franz Preitler Along the Mürz. Archive images series , Sutton Verlag, 2013, ISBN 9783954001989 , Chapter 1 Upper Mürz Valley: From the origin of the Mürz to Mürzzuschlag , p. 9 ff ( limited preview in the Google book search). - old views and postcards.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Goeth: The Duchy of Styria: geographically-statistically-topographically represented and provided with historical explanations. Volume 1 (Brucker Kreis, 1st part), Verlag Heubner, 1840, chapter Mariazell district , p. 207 ( Neuberg district: p. 311 ff; digitized, Google, full view )
- ↑ cf. "From chapels upwards the valley to the confluence of the Dobreinthal at Mürzsteg is called the Neuberger Thal." Adolf Schaubach: The German Alps: Third part: The Salzburg region, Upper Styria, the Austrian mountain region and the Salzkammergut. 2nd edition, Frommann 1867, p. 255 ( digitized version, Google, full view ).
- ↑ cf. the local language description “The Mürz Valley dean's office includes 13 parishes from Allerheiligen in Mürz Valley to Spital am Semmering, Veitschertal and Neubergertal.” Peter Neugebauer: Mürz Valley Deanery. Last edited February 4, 2016, accessed March 18, 2016 - the upper Mürz Valley can also be understood as the valley from the Enge Kindberg – Wartberg.
- ↑ a b Climatic region Upper Mürz Valley (12.a Upper Mürz Valley). In: Climate atlas Styria: Climate regions. Umwelt.steiermark.at (accessed March 14, 2018).
- ↑ Information in D.12 Mürz Valley and G.10 Mariazeller Basin. Umwelt.steiermark.at (accessed March 14, 2018).
- ↑ a b c K. A. Redlich, W. Stanczak: The ore deposits in the area from Neuberg to Gollrad. In: Mitteilungen der Geologische Gesellschaft in Wien , Volume 15 (= Bergbaue Stmk. 10), 1923, pp. 169–206, especially chapter on the historical part. , P. 169 ff ( article pdf , uibk.ac.at) - with detailed geological maps.