Paltental

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Paltental
The Paltental near Rottenmann from Strechau Castle, looking east

The Paltental near Rottenmann from Strechau Castle , looking east

location Liezen District , Upper Styria , Styria , Austria
Waters Columns
Mountains Rottenmanner Tauern (south), Eisenerzer Alps (north)
Geographical location 47 ° 31 '  N , 14 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '  N , 14 ° 24'  E
Paltental (Styria)
Paltental
length 46 km
particularities Part of the Palten-Liesing valley longitudinal furrow
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The Paltental is a side valley of the Ennstal in Upper Styria . The valley is home to six communities with a total of 13,853 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2018)

history

Until the early Middle Ages , the valley was at least partly Slavic . The name also indicates that. The earliest written document is from 1041 and is "Baltal". The name goes back to the Slavic bolto (swamp). The valley is likely to have been settled by Bavarians in the 8th century or earlier .

geography

The valley branches off from the Middle Ennstal to the southeast near Selzthal and is traversed by the eponymous river Palten . The transition to the Ennstal is formed by a narrow valley. It ends at the Schoberpass (849 m). The town of Rottenmann is the capital and largest municipality in the valley . In the south it is bordered by the Rottenmanner Tauern , in the north by the foothills of the Eisenerzer Alps .

The Paltental, together with the Liesingtal, which adjoins the Schoberpass, forms the Palten-Liesing Valley , formerly known as the Kammertal . This alpine long valley furrow is also an important north-south traffic connection. In the landscape structure of the state of Styria, the Paltental bears the number T4.

The shape of the valley was shaped by an extension of the Pleistocene Enns Glacier . The flat and more even valley floor is formed over by lateral alluvial cones and moor cones at intervals . The valley floor is filled with fluvial sediments.

Most of the valley floor has been protected landscape area No. 45 Paltental since 1981.

places

The following communities belong to the Paltental (the residents in brackets, as of January 1, 2020):

These include historical communities, today cadastral communities :

The municipalities of Lassing and Selzthal are only partly part of the Paltental due to the different drainage into the Enns and Paltental.

traffic

In terms of traffic, the valley serves as one of the connecting axes between Styria, Upper Austria and Salzburg; the Pyhrn motorway A9 runs through the Paltental to the Bosruck tunnel , along with the Rudolfsbahn , which connects Graz with Linz and Salzburg.

Worth seeing

Web links

Commons : Paltental  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Paltental on the environmental information page of the State of Styria, accessed July 17, 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (=  magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 31 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
  2. ↑ Keyword Paltental in the Österreich-Lexikon aeiou, accessed July 17, 2009.
  3. ^ Landscape structure in the Digital Atlas of Styria, accessed July 17, 2009.
  4. ↑ LSG45 ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Province of Styria, accessed July 17, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verwaltung.steiermark.at