Palten-Liesing valley
| Palten-Liesing valley | ||
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| location | District of Leoben , District of Liezen | |
| Waters | Palten , Liesing | |
| Mountains | Rottenmanner Tauern , Seckauer Tauern , Eisenerzer Alps | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 27 ' N , 14 ° 40' E | |
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| height | 849 m above sea level A. | |
| length | 86 km | |
| use | important north-south traffic connection | |
| particularities | * Paltental (Enns) and Liesingtal (Mur) valley train with valley watershed ( Schoberpass ) of the main Alpine ridge .
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The Palten-Liesing-Tal (also Liesing-Palten-Tal ) is the umbrella term for the valley range of the Palten and Liesing valleys, two valleys in Styria . It used to be called the Kammertal .
location
The valley is located in the Styrian districts of Liezen and Leoben and connects the two main valleys of Upper Styria , the Ennstal and the Mur-Mürz valley , over which with a pass height of 849 m above sea level. A. relatively inconspicuous valley pass Schoberpass . It runs from west-northwest to east-southeast and divides the Eisenerzer Alps from the Niedere Tauern ( Rottenmanner and Seckauer Tauern ).
Hydrography
The two eponymous rivers arise in the municipality of Wald am Schoberpass , the Palten flows to the northwest and flows into the Enns , and the Liesing flows to the southeast and flows into the Mur . The Schoberpass thus forms part of the main watershed of the Alps , as an extension of the main Alpine ridge into the northern branch of the eastern edge of the Alps , which then ends at the Vienna Basin.
Communities in the valley
The main places in the valley are Rottenmann , Kalwang and Trieben . Around 22,000 people live in the Palten-Liesing Valley, 13,000 of them in the Palten Valley and 9000 in the Liesingtal. The most populous municipality in the Palten-Liesing Valley is the town of Rottenmann with around 5300 inhabitants. The individual communities are (from west to east):
Paltental
In the Liezen district (except for the forest)
- Selzthal
- Lassing
- Rottenmann
- Shoots
- Gaishorn at the lake
- Forest on the Schober Pass (with watershed)
Liesingtal
- Forest on the Schober Pass (with watershed)
- Kalwang
- Mautern
- Chambers in the Liesingtal
- Traboch
- St. Michael
traffic
The Palten-Liesing valley with the Pyhrnautobahn , the Rudolfsbahn and the Schoberpass Straße represents an important north-south traffic connection.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Keyword Paltental in the Österreich-Lexikon aeiou, accessed July 17, 2009.