Triebener Tauern

This article deals with the top of the pass, for the mountain group see Seckauer Tauern .

Triebener Tauern [pass]
Hohentauern from the south
Pass height	1274  m above sea level A.
place	Hohentauern , Styria , Austria
Watershed	Tauernbach → Triebenbach	Sunkbach → Triebenbach
expansion	Triebener Strasse (B114)
Mountains	Crossing Seckauer Tauern / Rottenmanner Tauern , Niedere Tauern
particularities	Information on the traffic-relevant data for the entire route north - south Paltental - Pölstal (valley locations Trieben / Judenburg ); The orographic watershed is the shoulder height (approx.  1225  m above sea level )
profile
Ø pitch	5.4% (569 m / 10.5 km)	1.4% (537 m / 39 km)
Max. Incline	10%
Map (Styria)
Coordinates	47 ° 26 '3 "  N , 14 ° 29' 1"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '3 "  N , 14 ° 29' 1"  E

The Triebener Tauern is a mountain pass over the Niedere Tauern in Hohentauern in Styria ( Austria ).

Location and landscape

It lies on the sheath between the Seckauer and Rottenmanner Tauern and connects  the Murtal near Judenburg ( Aichfeld ) with the Paltental near Trieben and the Ennstal via the Triebener Straße (B114) .

While the approximately 30 km long south ramp takes a gentle course through the valley of the Pölsbach , the north ramp runs in the valley of the Tauernbach and overcomes an 8 km length of 569 meters.

The pass height is 1274  m above sea level. A. within the village of Hohentauern . The main watershed Mur (Drau) - Enns is not here, but on the southwestern edge of the municipality, the shoulder height (approx.  1225  m above sea level ) at the Draxler inn, and forms an inconspicuous valley watershed there. The fact that the actual Tauern is the main pass is due to the impassability of the Sunk , the gorge of the Sunkbach on the Triebenstein  ( 1610  m above sea level ): The Tauern crosses south of this mountain from the upper Sunkbach over into the more easily passable Vordertriebental , so it only forms one local watershed.

History and expansion

The old name is Rottenmanner Tauern [ pass ]. Tauern has been a pass name from time immemorial, which then goes over to the mountains around the pass - Rottenmanner Tauern in the 19th century still referred to all of today's Rottenmanner , Wölzer- and Seckauer Tauern , Triebener Tauern and the mountains in the immediate vicinity of the pass in the sense a mountain group.

The Hohentauern pass crossing already played an important role in antiquity, as it shortens the Alpine transit connection Carinthia - Neumarker or Obdacher Sattel - Pyhrnpass - Upper Austrian central area around the wide corner of the Mur and Liesingtal valleys via St. Michael . The original old Säumerweg, however, is likely to have been the even shorter route Möderbrugg - Rehrecksattel - Strechau , a western side valley train. It is also not certain whether the Roman road Virunum - Ovilava (Zollfeld - Wels), part of the Via Norica Aquilea (near Venice) - Ufernorikum (Danube region), actually led directly over the Triebener Tauern Pass, as archaeological findings are missing. The remains of a beating path found in 1965 could be Roman, but also only early modern. A more straight route over the Kreuzbergalm - Hölleralm area west of the Sunk is believed to be possible. Therefore, the location of the Mansio (post office) Tartursanis , widely identified with the “high” Tauern, is unclear, it could have been between here and the area of ​​the shoulder height.

The first church , then a branch of St. Lorenzen , was built here as early as the 14th century . The Tauernwirt, documented as early as 1300, stood there . The village of Hohentauern on the pass, which was only a small hamlet until the late 19th century, developed from these.

In 1670 the "new wagon route" over the Tauern was expanded by the master of the road, Leonhard Prandtstetter, who had previously worked in the Eisenerz area for a long time.

Due to the topographical situation, the northern ascent takes place today mainly in two steep sections, each 2.5 km long. The upper steep section was already expanded in the 1970s, with the maximum gradient reduced from 21% to 13%. The lower steep section between Trieben and Sunk had gradients of up to 16% up to October 2008, which made some curves difficult. In addition, the steep section led directly into the center of Trieben. Despite restrictions on heavy vehicles, there were always dangerous situations due to defective or overheated brakes. On August 8, 1991, a Hungarian coach came off the road and fell into the depths, killing 13 people.

On June 21, 2006 the groundbreaking ceremony took place for a completely new construction of the section between Trieben and Sunk. Since there were frequent mass movements on the stretch of road, which required a high level of renovation work, it was decided to build the new road on the geologically more favorable west side of the Wolfsgraben. Two hairpin bends were built to reduce the incline . The steep terrain required extensive slope reinforcements and the construction of large retaining walls . On October 23, 2008, traffic was handed over to the newly built route, which now only has a maximum gradient of 10%. The old stretch of road was dismantled into a forest road . Large parts of the road route were filled with stone material and bridge structures were removed.

Because of the winding road, there are still weight and length restrictions.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rottenmanner Tauern 2). In: E. Bruckmüller: Österreich-Lexikon , Verlagsgemeinschaft Österreich-Lexikon, 2004.
2. ↑ The Triebener Tauern. Municipality of Trieben: History of Trieben , The "Via Norica" ​​and the toll law and the shortcut to Strechau (accessed November 8, 2019).
3. ↑ Only the remains of the road in Schwarzenbach and the presumed milestone from the shoulder height are verifiable (as of 2019); cf. on this J. Schöggl: To map the Roman sites in the Liezen district. In: Forum Archaeologiae 92 / IX / 2019 ( http://farch.net ) ( online , univie.ac.at).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Erik Hilzensauer: The road from the Rottenmanner Tauern to Trieben and the way over the Hölleralm and Kreuzbergalm in the light of archival sources. In: Find reports from Austria 43, 2004, pp. 725–740; similar also:
   dsslb .: The road from Rottenmanner Tauern to Trieben in the light of archival sources. In: Alois Leitner (Ed.): Contributions to the culture and local history of Hohentauern. No. 49, Oct. 2006.
5. ↑ A section of the road between Trieben and Hohentauern was torn away by a flood in 1965; the beaten path is there 1.8 m below street level; obs cit. The Triebener Tauern. Section The Tauern Pass and the importance of St. Lorenzen.
6. ↑ ops cit. Hilzensauer 2004, especially p. 730 f; According to:
   Susanne Klemm: Roads for the Styrian Erzberg. Archaeological-historical old road research in Styria, 16. – 18. Century. Volume 51 of research on the historical regional studies of Styria. LIT Verlag Münster, 2011, ISBN 9783643502025 , p. 238 ( limited preview in Google book search).
7. ↑ The Altwegesystem Kreuzbergalm - Hölleralm is a designated ground monument .
8. ^ Walter Brunner: The Tauernwirt. 720 years of history of an Upper Styrian farm and inn. Collegium Columbinum, 2001 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
9. ↑ ops cit. Klemm 2011, ibid. P. 238.