Tamberg (mountain range)

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Tamberg
The south side of the Tamberg in front of the Sengsengebirge (view from the southwest, from the Huttererböden)

The south side of the Tamberg in front of the Sengsengebirge (view from the southwest, from the Huttererböden)

height 1516  m above sea level A.
location Upper Austria , Austria
Mountains Warscheneck Group , Dead Mountains
Dominance 5.1 km →  Kleiner Priel
Notch height 731 m ↓  Vorderstoder
Coordinates 47 ° 44 '14 "  N , 14 ° 12' 59"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '14 "  N , 14 ° 12' 59"  E
Tamberg (mountain range) (Upper Austria)
Tamberg (mountain range)
rock Main dolomite , Gosau layers
Age of the rock approx. 230-200 million years ( Upper Triassic )

The Tamberg is up to 1516  m above sea level. A. high mountain range of the Dead Mountains in the upper Steyrtal near Windischgarsten in the southern Traunviertel in Upper Austria .

Location and landscape

The Tamberg is located in the Spitz of the uppermost Steyr and Teichl near St. Pankraz , between the Windischgarstner basin near Roßleithen and Vorderstoder , and the rear Stodertal with the community of Hinterstoder . It forms a mid-mountain, wooded island mountain of the Windischgarstner basin between the mighty alpine massifs of the Großer Priel in the west, the Sengsengebirge in the north and the Warscheneck in the south.

The Tamberg has an 8 km long, northwest-southeast trending ridge. Its southwest flank drops suddenly over up to 800 meters to the Steyr. But it has hilly, populated templates to the south and east.

Boundary, classification and summit

The main peaks of the Tamberg are 1516  m and 1502  m high, the northeast peaks 1243  m and 1186  m . The secondary summit on the Windischgarstner side is called the Schmeißerkogel  ( 1324  m ), the lower summit on the Steyrtal valley is called Schölmberg  ( 960  m ). The Gschwendtnerberg  ( 1073  m ) lies somewhat free above St. Pankratz , and there, into the valley, the Lainberg  ( 768  m ), an isolated ridge between the Teichl and Pyhrnpassstrasse.

According to the Alpine Association of the Eastern Alps  (AVE), the massif belongs to the Dead Mountains . According to the mountain group classification according to Trimmel , it belongs to the Warscheneck group  (1630), and forms its own subgroup, has the number 1639 and is delimited (clockwise):

In addition to the Tambergstock itself, this grouping also includes the templates south of the Eselsbach , these are the heights of Stadleregg-Zamsegg ( Vordertambergau , Mitterkrotzen , up to  820  m ), and the Steyrsberg  ( 1007  m ) with Poppenberg  ( 860  m ) near Hinterstoder. The Stummerkogel  ( 817  m ) to the east is no longer counted as part of the Tamberg after Trimmel. The area of ​​the group is a good 42 km² in the specified delimitation.

The Upper Austrian spatial structure  (NaLa) places the Tamberg in the landscape of the Salzkammergut foothills , whereby the southern, populated slopes are already included in the spatial unit of the Windischgarstner basin , north and west foot are in the spatial unit of the Steyr and Teichltal , the Steyrsberg counts for geological reasons to the Kalk high alps .

Geology and natural equipment

The Tamberg massif represents the junction of three tectonic nappes .

The Tamberg itself is a powerful mass of obertriassischem Hauptdolomit in Ramsebn and Weier bars on the southern slope is Plattenkalk , with crumbling fossiliferous Kössener layers . These are 230–200 million year old lagoons of the Thetys near the shore. Although it lies south of the Grünau-Windischgarstener fault zone (here Teichl-Talzug), the rock is classified as part of the Reichraminger ceiling of the Bajuwarikum (Reichraminger-Lunzer ceiling system or Staufen-Höllengebirgsdecke), to which the Sengsengebirge also belongs. This formation also stretches westward into the Totengebirge foothills of Steyrling.

The hills near Vorderstoder are Gutenstein Formation and Hasel Mountains . They already belong to the Warscheneck blanket , part of the Tirolikum ( Ötscher blanket in the broader sense). Here Werfener layers are somewhat scaled with the Reichraminger ceiling .

Strumboding waterfall

The southwest (Steyrsberg, Poppenberg), on the other hand, consists of Dachstein and Wetterstein limestone from the Dead Mountains , the simultaneous formation of the outer lagoon area. The ceiling boundaries therefore follow the line Weißenbach - Eselsbach - Spitzbach or Loigisbach - Spitzbach (salt path line of the Stodertal). These mountains were cut off from the Dead Mountains by the Steyr in the Strumboding breakthrough valley .

The southern roof is covered with Gosau , interim marine deposits during the construction of the Alps from the Middle Cretaceous (around 100 million years before today). These western foothills of the Windischgarsten Gosau Basin lie on all three nappes , which means that the nappes are mainly pre-Gosau. In Tambergau an der Steyr, however, Gosau is jammed as a ceiling separator.

In the Ice Age, the Tamberg was shaped by the Günz and Mindel temporal Steyr glaciers , mainly a tongue of the Enns glacier over the Phryn Pass. The Tamberg may have had a local glacier cap, turned away from the ice stream, but possibly ice-free. The Riß- und Würm -Würmgletscher has only advanced this far, and has left a terminal moraine zone to the east. One of the most recent phenomena is the Loigistal Glacier from Warscheneck, which covered the saddle at Vorderstoder, and the Filzmoos saddle moor at the northern end .

Tamberg and Steyrsberg – Poppenberg are mainly composed of mixed beech forest rich in firs , which is still quite natural. Protected areas have not yet been designated here.

In the cave register 5 caves are noted for this group (status 2002).

literature

  • Siegmund Prey: The Flysch window of Windischgarsten and its surroundings. A documentation about shift sequences and tectonics. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. 135, Heft 2, 1992, pp. 513-577 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski : Complete table of summits in the Alps separated by 590 meters of re-ascent , December 12, 2008.
  2. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying Austria: Tamberg on the Austrian Map online (Austrian map 1: 50,000) .
  3. ↑ Lukas Plan: Verbal description of the delimitation of the subgroups of the Austrian cave directory. Association of Austrian Speleologists, as of January 8th. 2008, p. 28.
  4. ^ A b Günter Stummer, Lukas Plan: Handbook on the Austrian cave directory. SpelDok Austria series , Volume 10, Association of Austrian Cave Researchers, Vienna 2002, p. 125 ( pdf, hoehle.org).
  5. ↑ a b Lit. Prey, 1992. Chap. 3.1. The sequence of layers of the Staufen-Höllengebirge ceiling and the Reichraminger ceiling: 5th main dolomite (Nor) , 6th Kössen layers and plate limestone (Rhät and Obernor) , p. 534, column 2 f; and 4.2.5. On the northern border of the Totengebirge ceiling from my point of view , p. 571, column 2 ff (pdf, p. 21 and 59).
  6. ↑ a b Lit. Prey, 1992. Chap. 3. The frame of the flysch and double window by Windischgarsten , p. 531; and 4.2.3. The Reichraminger ceiling system, the Staufen-Höllengebirgsdecke , p. 564, column 2 ff (pdf p. 19 and 52 respectively).
  7. ↑ cf. Hans Egger, Fred Rögl: Report 2007 on geological recordings in the Northern Limestone Alps on sheet 68 Kirchdorf an der Krems. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute 153 (2013), p. 372 ( pdf, geologie.ac.at).
  8. ↑ Lit. Prey, 1992. Chap. 3.2. The sequence of layers of the ceilings of the Haller Walls, the Warscheneck, the Dead Mountains (Ötscherdecke see left) and the Bosruck plaice: 5. Gutensteiner Kalk und Dolomit (anise) , p. 549, column 1 (pdf p. 37).
  9. ^ Ref. Prey, 1992, 4.2.4. The ceiling of the Hallermauern, the Warscheneck and the Dead Mountains - Ötscherdecke sl, p. 569, column 2 (pdf p. 57).
  10. ^ Ref. Prey, 1992, 3.2.15. Gosau layers of the southernmost nappes - Ötscher nappes s. l. (Gosau of the Windischgarsten basin between Rosenau, Hinterstoder and Pyhrnpaß), p. 554, column 2 ff (pdf p. 42).
  11. ↑ Lit. Prey, 1992, p. 571, col. 2 f; also 4.2.6. Considerations on the question of horizontal movements in the Windischgarsten fault zone, p. 573, column 1 f (pdf p. 59 ff).
  12. ^ Josef Zeitlinger: Attempt to break down the ice age deposits in the central Steyr valley. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association 99 (1954), esp. Map The surroundings of the Sengsengebirge and the central Steyertal at the time of the greatest (Mindel) glaciation. P. 232, full article p. 189–243 ( PDF on ZOBODAT , there p. 44).
  13. ↑ ops cit. Zeitlinger 1954, p. 235 (pdf p. 47).
  14. ↑ Upper Austria. Environmental Ombudsman (Ed.): Filzmoos near Vorderstoder. Series moor development concept Upper Austria. Status 05/2008 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  15. ^ Office of the Upper Austrian state government, nature conservation department (ed.): Raumeinheit Windischgarstner basin. Volume 40 of Nature and Landscape / Concepts for Upper Austria. , Linz 2007, A6.4 Forestry: Forest types, p. 21 and A7.1.2. Habitat types and structural elements: Beech (mixed) forest, p. 25 ( pdf , land-oberoesterreich.gv.at).