Reiting
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.jpg) View from Trofaiach to the Reiting |
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| Highest peak | Gßeck ( 2214 m above sea level ) | |
| location | Styria , Austria | |
| part of | Eisenerzer Alps , Ennstal Alps | |
| Classification according to | Landscape structure of Styria N.4a | |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 26 ' N , 14 ° 54' E | |
| Type | High mountain range of the plateau type | |
| rock | Band limestone | |
The Reiting , also called Reitingstock , is a mountain range on the southern edge of the Eisenerzer Alps . It lies between Trofaiach and the Liesingtal . Its main peak is the Gßeck ( 2214 m ).
Location and landscape
The massif rises on the northern edge of the Trofaiach basin , above the Liesingtal and in line with the lower Vordernbergertal . It forms a contrast to the industrial city of Leoben - Donawitz . The image of the freshly snowed in Reiting is typical as the background for the chimney landscape of the Donawitz ironworks of voestalpine .
With its four peaks, Gßeck ( 2214 m ), Grieskogel ( 2148 m ), Kahlwandspitze ( 2049 m ) and Klauen ( 1849 m ) and twenty partly desolate ditches and steep forest lines, it is a small mountain range in its own right.
View from Trofaiach to the Reiting
Boundary and neighboring mountain groups
The stick has the following outline:
- in the north: Mautern (on the Liesing 703 m above sea level ) - Reitingbach via Reitingau - Hoheneckgraben - Hoheneck ( 1382 m above sea level ) - Gößbach ( Gößgraben ) - Trofaiach (on the Vordernbergerbach 645 m above sea level ) to the train Wildfeld - Eisenerzer Reichenstein (in the main ridge of the Eisenerzer Alps)
- in the south through the Trofaiach basin: Trofaiach - Gai - Glarsdorf - Seiz ( Seizbach estuary 636 m above sea level ) to the lower group Veitscherwald (Tannkogel) - Traidersberg - Schillerhöhe
- in the southeast: Liesing from Seiz to Mautern to the Seckauer Tauern
The Styrian landscape structure , where the group is listed as N.4a, treats the valley floors as separate zones for topographical reasons: B.4 Trofaiach Basin and T.6 Liesingtal , the boundary therefore runs at the foot of the mountain.
geology
The solid is mainly composed of Paleozoic limestones ( Reitingkalk , a Bänderkalk ; Reitingdecke ), and partly of limestone Devon ( Wildfeld lime) . Only the west and east slopes and the foothills in the south are made up of greywacke slate ( Radschiefer of the Noric Nappe , Silurian - Lower Devonian ; near Mautern also Kalwang gneiss conglomerate from the Ordoviz ). In contrast to the Kaiserschildgruppe , the Reiting does not belong to the system of the Limestone Alps , but rather goes back to much older, roughly 500 million year old marine deposits that today form the basement of the Upper Eastern Alps . The masses are again complex surrounded by other rocks and traversed in itself, then the Gößeckgipfel forms a reddish Bankkalk the type of cushion limes , otherwise there are also chert and Eisenkalke , on the eastern slope of basic volcanics and quartz sandstone .
At the southern foot, with the Reitinger limestone conglomerate of the Tertiary (near Mochl ) and breccia of the Quaternary (above Dirnsdorf ), there are also old rockfalls and reconsolidated debris .
The Reiting is also an industrial mountain. As early as the Middle Ages, iron ore was mined and smelted in the lower-lying areas in today's communities of Gai and Kammern. The mountain also supplied wood for the iron industry very early on.
Nature and development
The Reiting is a "flower mountain", its flora is particularly rich. Over 70 species of orchids grow here. Its Petergstammwiesen ( Aurikel - Primula auricula) below the Grieskogel summit are particularly attractive , but the numerous occurrences of the stemless gentian ( Clusius gentian , lime gentian), various types of cabbage and many other alpine flowers are remarkable. The rare yew trees and the foreign spirits are also at home here.
The Reiting massif has been a well-known hunting area for centuries. The best mountain deer in Austria can be found on Reiting and the neighboring mountains . It is also a well-known area for chamois and ibex . In 1728 there was a big chamois driven hunt at Reiting, to which the then Governor of Styria Carl Weikhard, Imperial Count Breuner, Emperor Karl VI. , had invited his wife and the court. As lord of Ehrnau Castle in Liesingtal, Breuner owned a hunting ground on the Reiting. The game had been herded together days before by hunters and farmers and then chased in front of the imperial hunting stalls. In August 1748, Governor Carl Adam Reichsgraf Breuner, the son of Carl Weikhard, arranged another chamois hunt in honor of Emperor Franz Stephen . On July 10th, 1765, when the court was stopping off in Leoben on the way to Innsbruck, Breuner invited the imperial family again to go chamois shooting. In addition to the emperor, his two sons, the future emperors Joseph II and Leopold II, also took part. The trench in which these driven hunts essentially took place has since been called the Kaisertal.
Today almost the entire Reiting belongs to the forestry enterprise of the Franz Mayr-Melnhof estate , who is one of the largest private forest owners in Austria. The Kaisertal forest administration , which looks after the area, is located in Dirnsdorf, municipality of Kammern im Liesingtal .
The entire Bergstock belongs to the Reiting – Eisenerzer Reichenstein landscape protection area ( LS 17 ), the summit region is strictly protected as part of the European Protection Area Parts of the Eisenerzer Alps ( FFH , No. 34 / AT2215000 ).
Today the Reiting is also a local recreation area. A marked path leads from Schardorf near Trofaiach through the Bechelgraben (actually Pechölgraben) to the Gößck. There are other marked approaches from Kammern and Mautern .
Chamois on the Reiting
The Reiting is also an ibex area
literature
- Günter and Luise Auferbauer: Gesäuse with Eisenerzer Alps , hiking guide, Bergverlag Rother , Ottobrunn 2001, ISBN 3-7633-4213-3 , p. OA
- Fritz Peterka: Eisenerzer Alpen , Alpine Association Guide, Bergverlag Rother, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7633-1238-2 , p. OA
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c N.4, N.4a, N.4b Eisenerzer Alpen (Northern Alps) - Reitingstock, Kaiserschildgruppe , Umweltinformation Steiermark | Nature and landscape | Landscape structure (Gerhard Karl Lieb); and link to: Digitaler Atlas Steiermark
- ↑ the line crosses at Gai with the Krebsenbach (to the Veitscherbach ), a less noticeable depression in the basin
- ^ Precise southern border: Gößgraben near Oberdorf - cell (north of Schardorf ) - north of Deutschauf - Dirnsdorf - chambers in the Liesingtal , and from there along the valley slope north of the B113
- ↑ Hannes P. Naschenweng: The governors of Styria. 2011 Edition Strahalm Graz ISBN 978-3-9502732-6-7 pp. 154 and 159f.