Preiner Gscheid

This article explains the pass south of the Rax near Prein, the one northwest of the Rax near Preintal is called Gscheidl or Gscheidlhöhe .

Preiner Gscheid
Compass direction	east	west
Pass height	1070  m above sea level A.
district	Neunkirchen , Lower Austria	Bruck-Mürzzuschlag , Styria
Watershed	Rettenbach / Preiner Bach (→ Schwarza )	Raxenbach (→ Mürz → Mur )
Valley locations	Reichenau on the Rax	Chapels
expansion	Preiner Gscheid state road
Mountains	Rax Schneeberg Group
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Ø pitch	4.6% (586 m / 12.8 km)	3.7% (367 m / 10.0 km)
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Coordinates	47 ° 40 '33 "  N , 15 ° 43' 23"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 40 '33 "  N , 15 ° 43' 23"  E

The Preiner Gscheid ( 1070  m above sea level , also Preiner Gschaid ) is a mountain pass parallel to the Semmering Pass .

Location and landscape

The pass connects the Lower Austrian middle Schwarzatal with the Styrian Upper Mürz Valley . On the southern roof of the Rax, it crosses the wooded ridge that runs south over the Tratenkogel  ( 1565  m above sea level ) in the Semmering area to the southeastern Semmering Pass. The border between Lower Austria and Styria runs over the Preiner Gscheid .

Pass road L135 / L103

The pass road, the L135 / L103 , connects the villages of Reichenau an der Rax and the village of Prein an der Rax of this Reichenau community at the foot of the pass ( Höllental Straße  B27 next Hirschwang via Edlach - Dörfl ) with chapels on the Styrian side ( Lahnsattelstraße  B23) .

It has a maximum gradient of 11%.

Pass height

At the top of the pass there is a car park and the Edelweißhütte inn .

Marian column

There is also the Marian column on Preiner Gscheid ( Lage ), a wayside shrine. It was erected under the abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Neuberg , Balthasar II. Huebmann von Neuberg , as a border stone between Austria and Styria . It is dated 1654. The pillar (stele) in relief shows a coat of arms cartouche with the coat of arms of Neuberg all around - an uncial M decorated with a cross - and above it the donors ' initials B: A: Z: N, a cartouche with the slogan “ PROTEGE DEFENDE ” (' protect and defend ') and the date, the initials , a putti head and high reliefs of Saint Mary . It is a listed building . ${\displaystyle {\overset {\mathrm {F} }{\mathrm {FMF} }}}$

ways

The Preiner Gscheid south of the Rax (recording sheet of the state survey , around 1877)

The Preiner Gscheid is the junction and starting point of several hiking trails. The Rax stage of the European long-distance hiking trail E4 begins here . The following huts are easy to reach on the Rax:

• Waxriegelhaus , walking time: about 50 minutes
• Seehütte via the Göbl-Kühn-Steig , walking time: about 2 hours
• Karl-Ludwig-Haus via Schlangenweg , walking time: around 2 hours

The Scheibenhütte on the Großer Platte ( 1473  m above sea level ) is about five kilometers southwest of the pass.

In winter, Preiner Gscheid is the starting point for the popular ski tour through Karlgraben to the Rax plateau.

Web links

Commons : Preiner Gscheid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rax Heukuppe - Karlgraben .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Tour description on bergstieg.com  

Remarks

1. ↑ The address is on Am Preiner-Gschaid .
2. ↑ cf. Elga Lanc: Corpus of medieval wall paintings in Austria. Volume 2, Styria , Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002, ISBN 978-3-7001-3006-2 , p. 295;
   The picture can be found in the municipal coat of arms of Neuberg .
3. ↑ dissolvable as "Balthasar Abt zu Neuberg".