Sepplberg
| Sepplberg | ||
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| height | 1004 m | |
| location | Waldviertel , Lower Austria / Mühlviertel , Upper Austria / Český Krumlov , Czech Republic | |
| Mountains | Gratzener Bergland (Freiwald) | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 34 '59 " N , 14 ° 41' 43" E | |
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| particularities | European main watershed , triangle Lower Austria – Upper Austria – Czech Republic | |
The Sepplberg is 1004 m above sea level. A. high peak in Freiwald , the Austrian part of the Gratzener Bergland (Novohradské hory). It forms the triangle between Bohemia , Lower and Upper Austria .
Location and landscape
The Sepplberg lies on the border between Waldviertel and Mühlviertel , with the summit in the former. It rises 4½ kilometers west of Karlstift ( Gmünd district ) and 4½ kilometers northeast of Sandl ( Freistadt district ).
The flat mountain rises in the main ridge of the Gratzener Mountains. The ridge runs very winding here and has several peaks around 1000 meters. It roughly follows the borderline, westwards to the Kamenec (Steinberg, 1070 m above sea level ), eastwards over the saddle from Stadlberg to the Eichelberg ( 1054 m above sea level ) with the Lainsitz origin, and then northwards to the Tischberg ( 1063 m above sea level ) o. A. ). The Pohořský potok rises 200 meters northwest of the summit . The north Gratzener mountains are morphologically separated by two running north parallel valleys during Pohořský brook north to Maltsch (Malše) drained, the springing on Eichelsberg Lainsitz flows semicircle around it, and then turns to the north-east. To the south-west, the hollow joins the village of Rosenhof with its castle and ponds, behind which the village of Sandl is located. This area drains to the Waldaist . Between front and rear Schanzer Mountain (1015/ 1010 m above sea level. A. ) south and Höllberg ( 1010 m above sea level. A. ) southwest runs the Grenzbach who approaches also Waldaist.
The watershed between the Elbe (Maltsch, Lainsitz) and the Danube (Waldaist), the main European watershed, runs over the ridge line Kamenec - Sepplberg - Eichelberg . To the north, the Gratzener Berge descend into the Gratzen foothills along the upper Maltsch and the Strobnitz (Stropnice). To the south they lead over the Arbesbacher Hochland and the Liebenau plateau into the Weinsberg Forest , which continues to separate Lower and Upper Austria.
Directly at the source of the Pohořský potok is the exact three-country corner, the Austrian-Czech border runs just north of the summit.
history
The areas north belonged to the Bohemian court district Gratzen which, although largely German-speaking, after the fall of the Habsburg monarchy to Czechoslovakia came. To the north in the headwaters of the Pohořský potok is the deserted Šance (Schanz), the place was abandoned in 1945.
Between around 1950 and 1989, the state border was in the restricted area of the Iron Curtain and it was not allowed to enter.
Today the north-south long-distance hiking trail (05), part of the European long-distance hiking trail E6 , and together the Nordwaldkammweg (105), which represents the historical Austrian-Bohemian border, runs here. It passes the Sepplberg over the border triangle and directly north of the summit.