Sonnleitstein group

Sonnleitstein group
Highest peak	Großer Sonnleitstein ( 1639 m above sea level )
location	Lower Austria / Styria border
part of	Schneebergalpen (Trimmel); Mürzsteg Alps (AVE)
Classification according to	Trimmel 1852 Sonnleitstein
Coordinates	48 ° N , 16 ° E Coordinates: 48 ° N , 16 ° E

The Sonnleitsteingruppe is a mountain group of the Mürzsteg Alps or the Schneeberg Alps in the Styrian-Lower Austrian Limestone Alps .

Location and landscape

The small mountain group lies between the upper Schwarzatal in Lower Austria and the uppermost Mürz Valley in Styria , but largely belongs entirely to Lower Austria. It includes the mountains between Göller-Gippel-Zug in the north and Schneealpe and Rax massif in the south.

Classification, demarcation and neighboring mountain groups

According to the Austrian mountain group structure according to Trimmel , the Sonnleitstein group has the number 1852, and belongs to the Schneeberg Alps (1850) of the Lower Austrian Limestone Alps . The Alpine Club division of the Eastern Alps (AVE) places them in the Mürzsteg Alps (19).

The Sonnleitstein group is defined as follows:

in the northwest: Neuwald ( Mürz 873 m above sea level ) - Stille Mürz - Gscheidlhöhe ( 1134 m above sea level ) - Preinerbach to Preintal (forester's house): to the Gippel (1841, Göller-Gippel-Zug )
in the northeast: Preinerbach further to Naßwald- Reithof (Preinerbach estuary 595 m above sea level ): to Obersberg (1843, Göller-Gippel-Zug; with Fegenberg )
in the southeast: Naßbach of Naßwald upwards to Hinternaßwald ( tear Bach muzzle) to Rax (1853)
in the southwest: Wasseralmbach (upper Naßbach) - Freinerboden (northern Kreuzsattel , 1330 m above sea level ) - Ameiswiesbach - Kalte Mürz to Neuwald: to the Schneealpe (1851)

Outline and summit

The group is divided into:

[Mürzaler] Mitterberg ( 1496 m above sea level ) in the west: an elongated, southwest-northeast running stock between Preinerbach and Kalter Mürz
with the dividing line Bärensattelgraben - Mösl - Schwellgraben
Line of the Donnerkogel in the middle: a long, slightly S-shaped ridge trending west-east, with Steinerkogel ( 1589 m above sea level ), Donnerkogel ( 1617 m above sea level ), Lahnberg ( 1594 m above sea level). ), Mitterberg ( 1429 m above sea level ), Hubmerkogel ( 1282 m above sea level )
with the dividing line Graßgrabenbach - Waldeben (with Hüttenkogel 1401 m ) - Schwarzriegelbach
Zug of the Sonnleitstein in the south: with the Großem ( 1639 m above sea level ) and Little Sonnleitstein (approx. 1400 m ) and the Glatzetem Kogel ( 1594 m above sea level )
and there, north in the Schwarzriegelbachtal on the Kalteck (Sonnleitsattel), the Mitterschwarzriegel ( 1303 m above sea level ) at Heufuss

geology

The whole group shows a more pre-Alpine character than the mighty limestone massifs to the south. Only the Sonnleitstein ridge belongs to the Schneeberg cover, with Wetterstein limestone in the summit region and Wetterstein dolomite at the base. The trains to the north are the main dolomite and Dachstein limestone , separated by the Werfen strata that open up into the valley ranges , and traces of the Gosau strata . Towards the Gippelmauer and Obersberg lies the Preintalmulde , with a series of high-alpine clods (cliffs).

natural reserve

The Sonnleitstein group in Lower Austria with the Schwarzau parts belongs to the Rax – Schneeberg nature reserve, and on the Styrian side to the Mürzer Oberland nature reserve (Veitsch, Schnee, Raxalpe nature reserve). The parts of St. Ägyder have not yet been designated.

Individual evidence

↑ Only the Sonnleitstein-Westkamm from the Glatzeten Kogel belongs to Styria.
↑ Lukas Plan: Verbal description of the delimitation of the subgroups of the Austrian cave directory . Status: Jan 08 2008. Ed .: Association of Austrian Speleologists. 1852 Sonnleitstein , p. 38 ( pdf , hoehle.org).
↑ The Austrian map shows the name as a location, information after Georg Geyer: Contributions to the geology of the Mürzthaler Kalkalpen and the Wiener Schneeberg. In: Yearbook of the Imperial Royal Geological Institute , Volume 39 / Issue 3 + 4, 1889, p. 648 ( article, pdf , geologie.ac.at).
↑ ^a ^b Erwin Lahn: On the geological structure of the Rax and Snow Alps area. In: Communications of the Geological Society in Vienna Volume 23, XXIII. Born in 1930, esp. Sections Sonnleitsteingruppe , p. 20, Deckschollen des Preintal and Voralpinesgebiet , p. 24 f, map Fig. I., p. 2 and Fig. II. Collective profile through the Raxalpe , p. 7 ( article p. 1–33, pdf , uibk.ac.at).

[1] Only the Sonnleitstein-Westkamm from the Glatzeten Kogel belongs to Styria.

[hoehle.org-2] Lukas Plan: Verbal description of the delimitation of the subgroups of the Austrian cave directory . Status: Jan 08 2008. Ed .: Association of Austrian Speleologists. 1852 Sonnleitstein , p. 38 ( pdf , hoehle.org).

[3] The Austrian map shows the name as a location, information after Georg Geyer: Contributions to the geology of the Mürzthaler Kalkalpen and the Wiener Schneeberg. In: Yearbook of the Imperial Royal Geological Institute , Volume 39 / Issue 3 + 4, 1889, p. 648 ( article, pdf , geologie.ac.at).

[Lahn_1930-4] Erwin Lahn: On the geological structure of the Rax and Snow Alps area. In: Communications of the Geological Society in Vienna Volume 23, XXIII. Born in 1930, esp. Sections Sonnleitsteingruppe , p. 20, Deckschollen des Preintal and Voralpinesgebiet , p. 24 f, map Fig. I., p. 2 and Fig. II. Collective profile through the Raxalpe , p. 7 ( article p. 1–33, pdf , uibk.ac.at).