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Pass height

Pass height

Compass direction west east
Pass height 820  m above sea level A.
state Lower Austria
Watershed Seebach → Unrecht-TraisenTraisenDanube Green SchwarzaSchwarzaLeithaDanube
Valley locations Hohenberg

St. Aegyd am Neuwalde

River: Schwarzau im Gebirge Road: Kalte Kuchl
expansion Gutensteiner Strasse B21
Mountains Gutenstein Alps
profile
Ø pitch 4.8% (332 m / 6.9 km) 1.8% (92 m / 5.0 km)
Map (Lower Austria)
Ochsattel (Lower Austria)
Ox saddle
Coordinates 47 ° 52 '56 "  N , 15 ° 38' 22"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '56 "  N , 15 ° 38' 22"  E
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The Ochsattel is 820  m above sea level. A. high mountain pass in southern Lower Austria , which leads from the Traisental to the south-east to the Grünen Schwarza . The Gutensteiner Straße B21 also leads over it as a pass road ; after the pass it climbs a little to the east, then descends into the Kalte Kuchl and leads over the Rohrer Sattel into the Piestingtal region and the Schneeberg area.

The ascent in the Traisental begins at Hohenberg or Hofamt ( 480  m ) and is possible on two state roads . It is relatively gentle, while the apex has an incline of about 10%. 5 km after the top of the pass, the road descends to the east into the Kalte Kuchl - a small village around the inn of the same name. There the road divides into 3 possible routes:

Web links

Commons : Ochsattel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ochsattel and the surrounding area on ÖK 50 , www.austrianmap.at , Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying Austria, Austrian map, scale 1: 50,000.