Prochenberg (mountain)
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 The Prochenberg from the Schadneramt in Gresten (northeast) |
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| height | 1123 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Lower Austria , Austria | |
| Mountains | Ybbstal Alps , Northern Limestone Alps | |
| Dominance | 4.6 km → Friesling | |
| Notch height | 516 m ↓ east of Großtheuretzbach | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 55 '58 " N , 14 ° 54' 59" E | |
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| rock | limestone | |
| Age of the rock | Middle Triassic | |
| particularities | Observation tower | |
The Prochenberg is a mountain in Eisenwurzen in Lower Austria in the Ybbstal Alps . With its height of 1123 m above sea level. A. it is the local mountain of the market town of Ybbsitz .
location
The Prochenberg falls to the west into Noth , the narrow valley of the Prollingbach falls and is bounded in the north and east by the valley of the Black Ois . To the northwest at its foot lies the place Ybbsitz and southeast the pilgrimage site Maria Seesal .
The two-peaked ridge of the Prochenberg has the highest point in the east summit, on which the Prochenberghütte of the OeAV , Waidhofen / Ybbs section, originally built in 1866, stands. Next to the hut, a steel observation tower rises above the trees and allows a deep view of Ybbsitz as well as the view of the nearby Ötscher and Dürrenstein mountains , to the north the view of the Alpine foothills to the Dunkelsteinerwald and the southern Waldviertel .
The observation tower was built in 1989 by a traditional company in the local iron processing industry for the 325th anniversary of its foundation. Until a wind break and subsequent felling in 1980, the summit was forested and the view blocked by trees.
On the Kreuzkogel , the only slightly lower west summit, there is a summit cross made of wood. After extensive felling, this survey also offers a free panorama (as of 2011).
Routes
The Prochenberg can be easily reached from several sides via hiking trails .
The shortest ascent leads from the Ybbsitz district of Prochenberg (Haselsteinhof, 624 m above sea level ) over the Haselsteinwand and the northeast ridge to the summit. A forest road also leads from Haselsteinhof to the refuge, which is also popular with mountain bikers .
From Maria Seesal a path leads steeply over the southeast ridge, which can also be reached from Mitterlehen (Kleinprolling).
Haselsteinwand
The Haselsteinwand ( 904 m above sea level ) is a north-east upstream rock head that breaks off with a steep wall to the Haselsteinhof. On the Haselsteinwand a cross was erected by the parish of Ybbsitz, which commemorates the fallen of the Second World War and bears the inscription: " Thank God for our homecoming ". The cross is illuminated at night and can be seen far into the Alpine foothills. A cell phone mast rises into the sky a few meters away.
A climbing garden has been set up on the Haselsteinwand .
Former ski area
On the north side of the Prochenberg, northwest of the Haselsteinwand, there was a small ski area with two drag lifts in the 1970s and 1980s. The longer one led to Ochsenboden , from where a very steep descent through the “Schluichten”, a meadow hollow, was possible.
On a ski touring descent known as the “old race track” it was possible to descend from the summit through steep slopes in the north side over the Ochsenboden to Ybbsitz, which was one of the most difficult runs in Lower Austria with a difference in altitude of 700 meters. The upper part of the route was newly laid out in 1958, but was hardly used by the end of the 1970s.
Meteorite find
While working on a geological map, geologist Wolfgang Schnabel from the Federal Geological Institute found a meteorite on September 17, 1977 . The 14.6 kilogram H4 chondrite was located on the northern slope of the Prochenberg at 650 m above sea level. A. The main piece of the meteorite weighing 11.9 kilograms is now in the Natural History Museum in Vienna.
The observation tower on the Prochenberg seen from the hut
Look down on Ybbsitz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Posting on www.yabadu.de
- ^ ÖK50, supplements 1987
- ^ A b Werner Tippelt, Bernhard Baumgartner: Skiing in Lower Austria . Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, St. Pölten, 1979. ISBN 3-85326-484-0 . Marginal numbers 240 and 253
- ^ Geological map of the Republic of Austria 1: 50,000, published by the Federal Geological Institute, Vienna 1988, sheet 71 Ybbsitz
- ↑ Wolfgang Schnabel: History of discovery and discovery of the meteorite from Ybbsitz , in: Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum, 87th volume (1985), pp. 1–9 ( PDF )
- ↑ F. Brandstätter, E. Kirchner, A. Kracher, G. Kurat: Der Meteorite von Ybbsitz: Petrologie und Mineralchemie , in: Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum, 87th Volume (1985), pp. 11-20 ( PDF )
Web links
- Prochenberghütte
- Entry on Prochenberg (mountain) in the Austria Forum (in the Heimatlexikon)