Styrian border mountains
| Styrian foothills , Styrian pre-Alps | ||
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| Highest peak | Ameringkogel ( 2187 m above sea level ) | |
| location | Styria, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Slovenia | |
| part of | Central Eastern Alps | |
| Classification according to | LdSt. R edge mountains ; SOIUSA 20 | |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 5 ' N , 15 ° 0' E | |
The Styrian Randgebirge , also Styrian Prealps , is an orographically significant mountain group of the Eastern Alps, which includes those parts of the Central Alps at their eastern fork that frame the Styrian Basin (Graz Bay) . These mountain ranges form the eastern edge of the mountains to the foothills of the Alps in the southeast and are wholly or partly in Styria , otherwise in Lower Austria , Carinthia and Slovenia .
Demarcation and classification
The northern border is formed by the Mur-Mürz furrow up over the Semmering Pass into Lower Austria, the western border from the Obdacher Sattel to the Lavant valley (already in Carinthia) , the southern border by the Drau to Maribor (Marburg) in Slovenia. The border to the foreland is largely arbitrary over long stretches, here the Alps run out into the subalpine Styrian hill country , which extends over to Hungary and Slovenia before the Alps are finally lost in the Pannonian Plain . The mountain arch has a length of 220 kilometers.
According to the Alpine Club division of the Eastern Alps (AVE), these groups fall into the Lavanttal Alps and the marginal mountains east of the Mur , the separation is formed by the Mur breakthrough at Bruck and Graz, which divides the Graz mountainous region into a western and an eastern group. The two AVE groups largely correspond to the Western and Eastern Styrian Prealps : The terminology of the Styrian Fringe Mountains and the Lavanttal Alps, including the Fringe Mountains east of the Mur, only differ in terms of the Seetal Alps (around the Zirbitzkogel), which no longer touch the Styrian Basin, and In the landscape structure of Styria , where these mountains are designated with "R", are already included in the greater area of the high alpine Central Alps (Z), while the peripheral mountains consistently have the character of low mountain ranges. The international unified orographic division of the Alps (SOIUSA / IVOEA) counts the Lavanttaler Alps in a different sense than the mountains around the Lavanttal (19th II), and the Koralpe as part of them, not the edge mountains (20). The allocation of the easternmost Alpine foothills of Lower Austria and Burgenland ( Bucklige Welt , Bernsteiner , Günser Berge , Rosalien - and Ödenburger Berge ) fluctuates, the SOIUSA adds them (20th IV Eastern Styrian Pre-Alps with the change as the main group), which saves the landscape structure of Styria Naturally, most of them (with the Joglland in the foreland ).
structure
The Styrian Rand Mountains include:
- Gleinalpe (with Hochalpe )
- Stubalpe
- Packalpe
- Koralpe (with Reinischkogelzug )
- Possruck
- Grazer Bergland (western and eastern)
- Fischbach Alps
- Change
- Hunchback world
- Joglland
In the officially used landscape structure of Styria , where the peripheral mountains - naturally limited to the area of Styria - make up a main group (R), the valleys, basins and pass landscapes of the area are viewed as independent spatial units.
The highest peak is the Ameringkogel of the Packalpe at 2187 m above sea level. A. at the north-western pivot point of the two wings of the Central Alps, also with an alpine character, but the Packalpe is also counted as a sub-area of the Stubalpe, from which it is separated by a less prominent saddle, and is therefore part of the Styrian peripheral mountains.
literature
- Sieghard Morawetz: On the geomorphology of the Styrian peripheral mountains. In: Mitt. Naturwiss. Ver. Steiermark Volume 100, Graz 1971, pp. 84-104, PDF on ZOBODAT
- Herbert Paschinger: Styria. Styrian border mountains. Grazer Bergland. Styrian Riedelland. Publishing house Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin-Stuttgart 1974.
Older:
- J. Sölch: Contributions to the Ice Age valley history of the Styrian Randgebirge In: Forsch. Deutsch. Landes- und Volkskunde 21 (1917), pp. 305–484.
- Ms. Heritsch: Morphology of the eastern edge of the Alps in the Bay of Graz. In: Petermanns geogr. Mitt. 69 (1923), pp. 113-115.