Rax Schneeberg Group

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Rax Schneeberg Group
Highest peak Klosterwappen ( Schneeberg ) ( 2076  m above sea level )
location Lower Austria , Styria
part of Northern Limestone Alps
Classification according to AVE  20, Trimmel  1850, SOIUSA  II / B-26.II-C Schneebergalpen
Rax Schneeberg Group (Austria)
Rax Schneeberg Group
Coordinates 47 ° 46 ′  N , 15 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′  N , 15 ° 48 ′  E
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The Rax-Schneeberg-Gruppe (rarely also the Schneebergalpen ) is a mountain group in the Northern Limestone Alps on the Styrian-Lower Austrian border.

Boundary

The Rax-Schneeberg group is separated from the neighboring groups by the following line according to the Alpine Club division of the Eastern Alps  (AVE) and the Austrian mountain group division according to Trimmel :

The AVE places the group (No. 20) in the entire Northern Eastern Alps , Trimmel assigns it as a subgroup of the Schneeberg Alps (No. 1850) to the Lower Austrian Limestone Alps (1800) as the main group.

summit

The highest point of the Schneeberg limestone is the monastery coat of arms at 2076  m above sea level. A. , the neighboring double peak is called Kaiserstein ( 2061  m above sea level ). The two peaks are the highest mountains in the federal state of Lower Austria. The highest elevations of the two Rax - massif are the Heukuppe with 2,007  m and Scheib Waldhöhe with 1943  m .

Other peaks are the Große Platte ( 1473  m ), the Tratenkogel ( 1565  m ), the Ochnerhöhe ( 1403  m ), the Kampalpe ( 1535  m ) and the Kreuzberg ( 1084  m ).

List of peaks by Schartenhöhe

No. summit Height (m) Notch height (m) Reference chart
1. Monastery coat of arms 2076 1348 Kalte Kuchl 728 m
2. Haystack 2007 992 Lahnsattel 1015 m
3. Tratenkogel 1565 495 Preiner Gscheid 1070 m
4th Krummbachstein 1602 269 Krummbachsattel 1333 m
5. Dreimarkstein 1948 180 Siebenbrunnenscharte 1768 m ( ⊙ )

Protected areas

The Raxalpen area, together with the Schneealpe and the Schneeberg, is part of the spring protection area of the I. Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline . Schneeberg and Rax are separated by the Höllental and are one of Vienna's local mountains .

Schneeberg and Rax are in the FFH area of ​​the Northeast Rim Alps: Hohe Wand-Schneeberg-Rax and the Rax-Schneeberg landscape protection area in Lower Austria, as well as the Veitsch-Schneealpe-Raxalpe landscape protection area and the Mürzer Oberland nature park in Styria.

Schneebergbahn

View from the Sonnwendstein to the Schneeberg

The Schneeberg can be reached with the over 100 year old Schneebergbahn , a cogwheel railway , up to an altitude of 1,800 m, and its two peaks can be reached from the mountain station in one to two hours. The footpath leads east over the stallion or west through the thread walls.

There are also climbs from the health resort of Puchberg am Schneeberg , as well as from the wild Höllental in the south to the Rax. The Schneeberg can also be reached from Payerbach , Prigglitz and Reichenau via the Gahns .

literature

  • Dietrich Baedecker: To the morphology of the group of the Schneebergalpen (Schneeberg and Rax). In: Annual Geographical Report from Austria. Vol. 12, 1922, ISSN  0376-1738 , pp. 5-100, (also as a special print: Franz Deuticke, Vienna 1922).

Web links

Commons : Rax-Schneeberg-Gruppe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lukas Plan: Verbal description of the delimitation of the subgroups of the Austrian cave directory . Status: Jan. 8 2008. Ed .: Association of Austrian Speleologists. ( hoehle.org [PDF; 321 kB ; accessed on May 15, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Natura_2000_FFH_Gebiet_Nordoestliche_Randalpen_Hohe_Wand_Schneeberg_Rax.pdf FFH area Northeastern Rim Alps: Hohe Wand - Schneeberg - Rax . Niederoesterreich.gv.at (pdf)