Pack and Stubalpe

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Pack and Stubalpe (Stub and Packalpe)
Highest peak Ameringkogel ( 2187  m above sea level )
location Styria , Carinthia ; Austria
part of Lavanttal Alps / Styrian Edge Mountains
Classification according to Lg.d.Stmk. R.3 Stubalpe ; Seger Packalpe ; Trimmel  2771 Hirscheggeralpe
Coordinates 47 ° 4 '  N , 14 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 4 '  N , 14 ° 48'  E
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Pack and Stubalpe (also Stub and Packalpe , or Packalpe or Stubalpe ) are a mountain area in Styria and Carinthia ( Austria ) that belongs to the Lavanttal Alps and the Styrian Rand Mountains . The highest peak is the Ameringkogel at 2187  m above sea level. A.

About the concept, location and landscape, delimitation and structure

Packalpe on the border between Carinthia and Styria with the A2 in the foreground

Pack and Stubalpe are that part of the Styrian Randgebirge in which the direction of strike changes from west-east to north-south. They also mark the corresponding pivotal point within the concept of the Lavanttal Alps: Here a branch of the crystalline central Alps branches off from the main strike direction to the east to the Semmering and runs southeast into the Bacher Mountains and the Slovenian-Croatian end of the Alps. These two arms encompass the Styrian Basin , hence the term "Randgebirge". For Carinthia, the south branch with the Koralpe forms the barrier that delimits the Carinthian Basin , the largest inner-Alpine basin, to the east.

This section of the division is a mountain range of low mountain range character with gentle shapes and lies between the upper Lavant valley in the east, the Mur valley in the north and the Styrian hill country in the southeast.

Pack and Stubalpe are orographically relatively clear in the west and are generally bounded by the Obdacher saddle to the Seetal Alps . In the north they reach as far as the Aichfeld near Zeltweg (Judenburg – Knittelfelder- / Fohnsdorfer basin), with the Mur as the border, and the Seckauer Tauern beyond. In the east that includes Weststeirische Riedelland the Köflach-Voitsberg basin at.

Naming such as the structure of the group and delimitation within the Styrian peripheral mountains, however, are rather inconsistent. In general, one can say that the group stretches in three ridges from the Speikkogel  ( 1993  m above sea level ) south, north and east, whereby the southern part tends to be called Hirschegger Alpe , the whole western part Packalpe and the eastern part Stubalpe . However, all three expressions can also be seen as a generic term. The Austrian map 1: 500,000 (ÖK500) labels the whole train from the Packsattel to the Murtal as Packalpe , the version 1: 200,000 (ÖK200) the northern part from the Peterer Alm as follows, the detailed edition 1: 50: 000 (ÖK50) Packalpe not at all. The former denotes the part east of the Hirschegger saddle with Stubalpe , the second the area east of the Peterer saddle , the tip of the Carinthian border, the latter again east of the Hirscheggersattel. Hirschegger Alm, on the other hand, is especially the ridge from the Peterer Riegel  ( 1993  m above sea level ) southwards, but especially directly above Hirschegg . The Austrian Lexicon AEIOU gives Packalpe in general as the "mountain range between Koralpe in the south and Gleinalpe in the north". Otherwise, the geological literature for the north-western part also specifically mentions the Amering massif .

geology

Like the Koralpe, the Pack and Stubalpe consists essentially of crystalline rock ( gneiss , mica slate ). In the Packalpe there are pegmatites that contain beryl . Tourmaline , epidote , titanite , zircon , cassiterite and spodumene are also found in these places .

summit

The main mountains are:

tourism

The mountain range is a popular hiking area, especially in the Gaberl and Packsattel area. In addition, it also offers some small ski areas that are easily accessible, especially from the provincial capital Graz .

The area is crossed by the north-south long-distance hiking trail 05 .

Huts

  • Altes Almhaus ( 1649  m above sea level ): north of the Wölkerkogel, an important trade crossing from Roman times
  • Bernsteinhütte ( 1559  m above sea level ): on the Hirschegger Alm
  • Gaberlhaus ( 1547  m above sea level ): ÖAV contract house on the Gaberl pass summit
  • Großebenhütte ( 1620  m above sea level ): south of the Schwarzkogel
  • Knödelhütte ( 1410  m above sea level ): on the ascent from the Packsattel to the Hirschegger Alm
  • Salzstiegelhaus ( 1543  m above sea level ): on the Hirschegger Sattel , an old mountain pass that was used early on to transport salt from the Salzkammergut to southern Styria. From here, Speikkogel and Rappoldkogel can be reached as an easy, short mountain hike.
  • Weißensteinhütte ( 1702  m above sea level ): on the southwest slope of the Weißenstein

See also

Individual evidence

  1. a b The Stubalm-Speikkogel must not be confused with the neighboring Gleinalpen-Speikkogel and the Großer Speikkogel on the Koralpe.
  2. in the electronic city name extract Geonam Austria , the entry is missing Packalpe therefore
  3. Entry on Packalpe in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  4. for example: LP Becker: The geology of the area between the Amering and Gleinalpen massif. Diss. Univ. Graz, 1971.
  5. R.3, R.3a Stubalpe - Packalpe (Edge Mountains) , Styria: Environmental Information Styria, umwelt.steiermark.at → Nature and landscape → Landscape Structure
  6. Alexander Tollmann: Geology of Austria . Volume 1 The Central Alps . Deuticke, 1977, ISBN 978-3-7005-4429-6 (3-70054429-4), The Central Eastern Alpine Ceiling Floor , a. Pack and Stubalpe , pp. 212–221.
    Leopold Weber (Hrsg.): Handbook of ore deposits, industrial minerals and energy resources in Austria. Explanations of the metallogenetic map of Austria 1: 500,000 including industrial minerals and energy resources. Archive for deposit research Volume 19 Vienna 1997. Federal Geological Institute ISBN 3-900312-98-2 ISSN  0253-097X . Page 317. ( PDF , 43 MB)