Seckauer Tauern

Seckauer Tauern
	Vulture head from the west
Highest peak	Geierhaupt ( 2417 m above sea level )
location	Styria , Austria
part of	Lower Tauern , Central Eastern Alps
Classification according to	AVE 45d; SOIUSA 18.IV; Lgld.d.Stmk. NT.3; Trimmel 2640
Coordinates	47 ° 25 ' N , 14 ° 38' E Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ' N , 14 ° 38' E
surface	900.8 km²

The Seckauer Tauern (also Seckauer Alpen ) are a mountain group of the central Eastern Alps . The mountains are located in the Austrian state of Styria .

Boundary, neighboring mountain groups and structure

The Seckauer Tauern are the easternmost part of the Niedere Tauern. It is named after the market town of Seckau , which lies 5 km north of Knittelfeld and is known for its Benedictine abbey and as the old bishopric (today Graz-Seckau ).

The mountain group is significantly limited by the valleys from Liesing and Palten in the north and east to St. Michael in Upper Styria , and the Mur from the Judenburg basin (Aichfeld) in the south. The border to the Rottenmanner and Wölzer Tauern is generally the Pölstal .

Mostly the boundary to the northwest is seen at the pass called Triebener Tauern ( Hohentauern is the name of the place; older pass name also Rottenmanner Tauern), and along the Triebenbach to the place Trieben . In the more scientific literature there is also a straighter border not along the road (B114) on the Tauernbach , but in the pass trough to the western side valley, the Sunk near Bergbau . Then the Triebenstein ( 1810 m above sea level ) falls near Hohentauern in the Seckau Alps. The orographic connecting saddle (watershed Enns – Mur) is definitely the shoulder height (approx. 1225 m above sea level ) between the village of Hohentauern and St. Johann am Tauern.

In a narrower sense, the southern border is the Ingeringbach near Seckau, the mountains south of it are called the Gaaler Höhenzug (Wildinger Höhe 1731 m above sea level ). Therefore a more general name Seckau Alps can be found.

The Rottenmanner Tauern northwest ( Seckauer-Rottenmanner Tauern , Seckauer-Bösesteingruppe ), which are geologically very similar to the Seckauer Tauern, but differ fundamentally from the rest of the Lower Tauern, are included in the Seckauer Tauern / Alps in a broader sense . Conversely, in other concepts, the Seckauer were also regarded as a subgroup of the Rottenmanner Tauern, seen further afield. In this broader sense with Bösenstein massif ( Rottenmanner Tauern in the narrowest sense) is mostly the line Pusterwaldbach near Möderbrugg - Bretsteinbach - Authalbach - Rehrecksattel ( 1854 m above sea level ; Römerweg ) or the uppermost Pölsen west upwards - Perwurzpolster (pass 1814 m above sea level) A. ) each over to the Strechenbach to Strechau in the lowest Paltental the boundary. In the first variant, the Bruderkogel ( 2299 m above sea level ) belongs to the Seckau Alps.

The north-western part of the mountains is also known as the Triebener Tauern , over this part the Triebener Tauernpass leads. This mountain name can only be found east of the pass as well as around the pass for the entire mountain region south of Trieben, i.e. in the sense of the Seckauer Tauern (without the Gaal mountain range) with Bösenstein - Tauern has been a pass name from ancient times, which is only secondary to the around the mountains lying on the pass. However, this designation usually remains unspecific.

The Seckauer Tauern border (with the border in Pölstal) according to the Alpine Club division of the Eastern Alps (AVE, group 45d) on the following mountain groups of the Alps:

in the north and east: Ennstal Alps (16, part of the Northern Eastern Alps )
in the south: Lavanttal Alps (46b)
in the west: Rottenmanner and Wölzer Tauern (45b)

They are classified in the Central Eastern Alps .

According to the officially used landscape structure of Styria (NT.3 there) they border (with the delimitation in the Sunk and the Perwurz cushion):

in the North: Eisenerz Alps (n.4, part of the Northern Alps - with Reitingstock N.4a from Mautern )
in the northeast from the valley entrance to the Trofaiach basin near Pfaffendorf : Mürz Valley Alps (N.9, part of the Northern Alps)
in the east to Knittelfeld : Gleinalpe (R.4, part of the Styrian peripheral mountains )
in the southeast: Stubalpe (R.3, part of the Styrian Randgebirge)
in the south: Seetal Alps (Z.3, part of the Central Alps )
in the southwest: Murberge (Z.1, part of the Central Alps)
in the west: Wölzer Tauern (NT.2)
in the northwest: Rottenmanner Tauern (NT.2a - here a subgroup of the Wölzer Tauern)

According to this classification, they belong to the Niedere Tauern (NT) landscape of the Central Alps . The Gaaler Höhenzug (NT.3a) is a sub-region. The valley areas and basins ( Paltental T.4, Liesingtal T.6, Oberes Murtal T.7, Judenburg-Knittelfelder Basin B.3, Seckauer Basin B.3a, Pölstal T.5) are considered independently in this structure.

In the mountain group classification according to Trimmel (there No. 2640), which is common in hydrography and caving, they border (with the Bösenstein massif to Geierkogel):

in the north and east: Eisenerzer Alps (1720, part of the Upper Styrian Limestone and Slate Alps 1700, Northern Limestone Alps )

in the southeast at Stub- and Gleinalpe (2780)

in the south on Kor and Packalpe (2770)

in the east: Wölzer Tauern (2630)

It is subdivided into the groups of Gaalereck (2641; Gamskogel – Pletzen, from Kettentörl ), Seckauer Zinken (2642), Saukogel (2643; Geierhaupt – Hochreichart; from Brandstättertörl ) and Bösenstein (2644)

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Panoramic picture of the main ridge of the eastern Seckauer Tauern from Seckauer Zinken (left) to the Hochalm ( pilgrimage church Maria Schnee ); Seckau below right

summit

The highest peaks are the Geierhaupt ( 2417 m ), the Hochreichhart ( 2416 m ), the striking Seckauer Zinken ( 2398 m ) and the Gamskogel ( 2386 m ).

Tourist development

Mountain huts

In the Seckauer Tauern there are the following huts of the Alpine Club and the ÖTK :

Sonnleitnerhütte : altitude 1215 m , not managed, for self-catering, 27 mattress dormitories. The valley location is Gaal , walking time from Gaal 1.5 hours, road to the hut.
Triebentalhütte : altitude 1104 m , not managed, for self-catering, 18 mattress dormitories, winter room with AV lock. Talort is instinct .
Hochreichart shelter : altitude 1483 m .

Long-distance / long-distance hiking trails

The Via Alpina , a cross-border long-distance hiking trail with five partial trails through the entire Alps, also crosses the Seckauer Tauern.

The purple path of the Via Alpina runs through the Seckauer Tauern in two stages:

Stage A22 from Knittelfeld via Seckau to Ingering II,
Stage A23 from Ingering II over the Kettentörl to Trieben.

Of the Austrian long-distance hiking trails, the Zentralalpenweg and Eisenwurzenweg run through the western part of the Seckauer Tauern. The pilgrimage route from St. Lambrecht to Mariazell, laid out in 2006, also leads through this area via the Lorettokapelle - Gaal - Seckau route.

meaning

As a year-round mountain sports destination, the Seckauer Tauern are primarily of regional importance. Only a few peaks, such as Hochreichart and Seckauer Zinken, also attract nationwide audiences as hiking and ski tour destinations.

literature

Karl Metz: The geological structure of the Seckauer and Rottenmanner Tauern. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. Vol. 119, 2nd half, Vienna 1976, pp. 151–205 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
W. Senarclens-Grancy: The becoming of the mountains and valleys around the Triebentalhütte in the new earth age. In: Anniversary issue for the 50th anniversary of the Triebentalhütte. Announcements from the Graz Academic Section of the Austrian Alpine Club. 25 (Oct 1978), pp. 31-37.

Web links

Commons : Seckauer Tauern - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Gerhard Karl Lieb: A regional division of Styria due to natural conditions. In: Mitt. Abt. Bot. Landesmus. Joanneum Graz 20, 1991, pp. 1–30, Wölzer Tauern and Seckauer Tauern (Alps) , p. 22 f, PDF on ZOBODAT
↑ ^a ^b ^c NT.3, NT.3a Seckauer Tauern - Gaal mountain range. Umwelt.steiermark.at → Landscape structure of Styria .
↑ ^a ^{b is} found e.g. E.g. already with Heinrich Beitzke: The Alps, a geographical-historical picture. Publishing house CF Post, 1843, b. The Styrian Alps or the Styrian or Lower Tauern. 3. The Rottenmanner Tauern , p. 730 f ( Google eBook, full view ).
↑ Lit. Metz: Der geologische Bau… 1976, chap. 1 Introduction , p. 152 (pdf p. 2).
↑ Triebener Tauern and Seckauer Alpen after D. Höllhuber: The landscape protection inventory of Styria. Unpubl. Expert opinion of the Austrian Inst. Natursch. Landschaftspfl., Vienna 1972. Information according to Lieb: Einegebietsgliederung der Steiermark… , 1991, p. 4 f.
↑ Seckauer-Pölsensteingruppe by F. Heritsch: geology Styria. Natural Ver. Styria, Graz 1921; Details in Lit. Metz: Der geologische Bau… 1976, chap. 2 Overview of the older literature , p. 152 f (pdf p. 2);
Pölsenstein is the old (and etymologically correct) name of the Bösenstein above the source of the Pölsen; see Metz, note p. 152.
↑ ^a ^b Rottenmanner Tauern 1) and 2). In: E. Bruckmüller: Österreich-Lexikon , Verlagsgemeinschaft Österreich-Lexikon, 1995.
↑ Rottenmanner Tauern. In: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie 19th edition (1992), Volume 18, p. 592
↑ ^a ^b Josef Hafellner: On the diversity of lichenized mushrooms and their parasites in the Seckauer Tauern (Eastern Alps, Lower Tauern, Styria). In: Mitteilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein für Steiermark 132 (2002), pp. 83–137, Chapter 1.1.1. Location of the study area and natural conditions: definition and geographical delimitation. P. 84, PDF on ZOBODAT
↑ Especially when the Triebener Tauern are used as a group, the term Seckauer Alpen in the narrow sense only includes the stock of the Seckauer Zinken with or without the Gaaler Mountains.

[Lieb_1991-1] Gerhard Karl Lieb: A regional division of Styria due to natural conditions. In: Mitt. Abt. Bot. Landesmus. Joanneum Graz 20, 1991, pp. 1–30, Wölzer Tauern and Seckauer Tauern (Alps) , p. 22 f, PDF on ZOBODAT

[umwelt.steiermark-2] NT.3, NT.3a Seckauer Tauern - Gaal mountain range. Umwelt.steiermark.at → Landscape structure of Styria .

[Beitzke_1843-3] {b is} found e.g. E.g. already with Heinrich Beitzke: The Alps, a geographical-historical picture. Publishing house CF Post, 1843, b. The Styrian Alps or the Styrian or Lower Tauern. 3. The Rottenmanner Tauern , p. 730 f ( Google eBook, full view ).

[Metz_1-4] Lit. Metz: Der geologische Bau… 1976, chap. 1 Introduction , p. 152 (pdf p. 2).

[Morawetz_1971-5] Triebener Tauern and Seckauer Alpen after D. Höllhuber: The landscape protection inventory of Styria. Unpubl. Expert opinion of the Austrian Inst. Natursch. Landschaftspfl., Vienna 1972. Information according to Lieb: Einegebietsgliederung der Steiermark… , 1991, p. 4 f.

[Heritsch_1921-6] Seckauer-Pölsensteingruppe by F. Heritsch: geology Styria. Natural Ver. Styria, Graz 1921; Details in Lit. Metz: Der geologische Bau… 1976, chap. 2 Overview of the older literature , p. 152 f (pdf p. 2);
Pölsenstein is the old (and etymologically correct) name of the Bösenstein above the source of the Pölsen; see Metz, note p. 152.

[aeiou_1995-7] Rottenmanner Tauern 1) and 2). In: E. Bruckmüller: Österreich-Lexikon , Verlagsgemeinschaft Österreich-Lexikon, 1995.

[Brockhaus_1992-8] Rottenmanner Tauern. In: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie 19th edition (1992), Volume 18, p. 592

[Hafellner_2002-9] Josef Hafellner: On the diversity of lichenized mushrooms and their parasites in the Seckauer Tauern (Eastern Alps, Lower Tauern, Styria). In: Mitteilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein für Steiermark 132 (2002), pp. 83–137, Chapter 1.1.1. Location of the study area and natural conditions: definition and geographical delimitation. P. 84, PDF on ZOBODAT

[10] Especially when the Triebener Tauern are used as a group, the term Seckauer Alpen in the narrow sense only includes the stock of the Seckauer Zinken with or without the Gaaler Mountains.