Ostrong

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The Ostrong above the Danube near Ybbs

The Ostrong is a 13 km long mountain range in the southwestern Waldviertel of Lower Austria . It borders on the southeast of the Weinsberger Forest and is separated from it by the Yspertal . Its highest point is the Große Peilstein at 1061 meters. Along the Ostrong are the places Münichreith , Laimbach am Ostrong , Yspertal , Persenbeug , Marbach an der Donau and some other smaller towns.

Naming

The etymology of the term "Ostrong" is unclear, but it could come from Slavic ( Ostrog ).

The name appears for the first time in 1379 as Oestragen and is perhaps derived from the word east . The naming could also be related to the Germanic spring goddess Ostara . The Ostrong would therefore be a mountain that was to the east and on which the fires of the goddess Ostara were lit.

summit

Great Peilstein
  • Great Peilstein (1061 m)
  • Kleiner Peilstein (1024 m)
  • Katzenstein (963 m)
  • Kaiserstein (935 m)
  • Sulzberg (852 m)
  • Galleck (727 m)
  • Great Mühlberg (509 m)

geology

The Ostrong consists mainly of paragneiss of the Ostrong unit named after it , which is also called the Monotonic Series because of its uniform rock sequences . On the southern slope of the Ostrong (Großer Mühlberg, Loja Quarry , Auratsberg ), the contrasting series of the Drosendorfer Einheit appears, which stretches to the north east of the Ostrong. In the far south ( Weins , Persenbeug) there is a strip of the Gföhler unit , which here consists of granulite , paragneiss and amphibolite . All three geological units belong to the eastern Moldanubian of the Bohemian mass .

West (Yspertal) and north ( Weitenbach -Tal) along the Ostrong flowed in Miozän the ancient Danube , which here clays , sands and gravels was deposited.

Transmission system in the Third Reich

At the highest point of the Ostrong, a little south of the summit cross, the foundations of a receiving and transmitting system for the Munich – Ostrong – Vienna radio link are still standing. This system was active in the Third Reich and was operated by telecommunications soldiers of the Wehrmacht who were stationed in Münichreith.

Hiking trails

The Ostrong was one of the favorite areas of Emperor Franz I (1768–1835), who often went hiking here while staying at his summer residence in Luberegg Castle . Allegedly he had the so-called Kaiserweg laid out, which runs along the ridge and leads from Gschaidanger over the Kaiserberg to the Großer Peilstein.

A section of the Eisenwurzenweg (Austrian long-distance hiking trail 08) runs through the Ostrong in a north-south direction, it begins on the Danube in Persenbeug , rises from there to the ridge and runs from Gschaidanger to Großer Peilstein along the Kaiserweg. From the Großer Peilstein it descends to Laimbach, where it leaves the Ostrong.

Refuge Peilstein (1018 m)

In 2018 a refuge was built about 50 meters south of the Kleiner Peilstein and opened on September 2nd, 2018. It is run by the “ Friends of Nature ” association.

literature

  • Gerhard Floßmann: The Melk district - the heart of Lower Austria . Melk, 1994 ( extract from the Ostrong )
  • Franz Hauleitner, Rudolf Hauleitner: Viennese hiking mountains: 50 tours between Lake Neusiedl and Enns . Bergverlag Rother, 2013, ISBN 9783763330270 , pp. 166–169
  • Andreas Adelmann: Wilde ways Eastern Austria: Waldviertel - Ötscher - Hochschwab - Schneeberg - Grazer Bergland. 50 tours: rock destinations, rock climbs, caves. With GPS data . Bergverlag Rother, 2018, ISBN 9783763331956 , pp. 152–155

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Schauer: Münichreith am Ostrong, past and present . Ed .: Village renewal association Münichreith am Ostrong. Gradwohl GmbH, Melk.
  2. ↑ Roland Strauss: Montangeological record on the raw material potential of the Habsburg-Lothringen estate Persenbeug. Diploma thesis, Leoben, 2015 ( PDF 9.4 MB )
  3. ^ Gunnar Strunz: Lower Austria: with Wachau, Waldviertel, Weinviertel and Mostviertel . Rescher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 9783897941700 , p. 176
  4. ↑ Secret Projects. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  5. ^ Gerhard Floßmann: The Melk district - the heart of Lower Austria . Melk, 1994 ( extract from the Ostrong )
  6. ↑ Bernd Orfer: Exclusively for the Kaiser . Standard August 5, 2000
  7. ↑ Peilstein refuge (1018m). Naturfreunde Austria, federal organization, accessed on February 5, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '  N , 15 ° 6'  E