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The Wechsel is a low mountain range in eastern Austria whose highest summit is the Hochwechsel (). It also has two other summits over 1700 m. The massif forms the border between the states of Lower Austria and Styria for about 15 km, southeast of the Semmering and northeast of the Graz Basin, between the Feistritz Saddle and the eponymous pass of Wechsel. Geography The Wechsel is part of the Prealps East of the Mur. It is – apart from the Vienna Woods which are half the height – the easternmost range in the Alps. Its highest point, at , is the ''Hochwechsel'', formerly called the ''Hoher Umschuss'', at the top of which is the Wetterkoglerhaus, an Alpine Club hut belonging to the Austrian Alpine Club. From there the crest of the mountains runs northwest to the ''Umschußriegel'' (,) continuing to the ''Schöberlriegel'' (), and east to the ''Niederwechsel'' (). The Wechsel is the boundary between the Styrian ''Joglland'' and the ''Bucklige Welt'', which stretches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Austria
Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt Pölten, replacing Vienna which became a separate state in 1921. With a land area of and a population of 1.685 million people, Lower Austria is the second most populous state in Austria (after Vienna). Other large cities are Amstetten, Klosterneuburg, Krems an der Donau, Stockerau and Wiener Neustadt. Geography With a land area of situated east of Upper Austria, Lower Austria is the country's largest state. Lower Austria derives its name from its downriver location on the Enns River which flows from the west to the east. Lower Austria has an international border, long, with the Czech Republic ( South Bohemia and South Moravia Regions) and Slovakia (Bratislava and Trnava Regions). The state has the second longest external border ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alps
The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia. The Alpine arch generally extends from Nice on the western Mediterranean to Trieste on the Adriatic and Vienna at the beginning of the Pannonian Basin. The mountains were formed over tens of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided. Extreme shortening caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentary rocks rising by thrusting and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. Mont Blanc spans the French–Italian border, and at is the highest mountain in the Alps. The Alpine region area contains 128 peaks higher than . The altitude and size of the range affect the climate in Europe; in the mountains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feistritz Am Wechsel
Feistritz am Wechsel is a town in the district of Neunkirchen in the Austrian state of Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt .... Population References Cities and towns in Neunkirchen District, Austria {{LowerAustria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dechantskirchen
Dechantskirchen is a municipality in the district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Styria, Austria. At 1. January 2015 it was expanded by a part (Katastralgemeinde Schlag) of the to this date existing immediate neighbor municipality Schlag bei Thalberg within the scope of the Gemeindestrukturreform. Geographie Geographical position Dechantskirchen is placed in the northeast of the district Hartberg-Fürstenfeld and also of Styria. The municipality resides approximately 15 km north of the district capital Hartberg. The highest place of the municipality territory is the Hochkogel (1.314 m), the moust southern one thousand mountain of the Wechsel. Municipality structure The municipality is composed of three Katastralgemeinden Dechantskirchen, Hohenau, Kroisbach und Schlag respectively of eight small towns (population 1. January 2019): * Bergen (106) mit der Rotte ''Drei Häuser'' * Burgfeld (125) mit Höttling * Dechantskirchen (665) * Hohenau am Wechsel (100) mit der Streusiedlu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aspang-Markt
Aspang-Markt is a market town in Lower Austria in Austria. Geography Aspang-Markt is situated in the region Bucklige Welt submontane of the Wechsel mountain (1,743 m). It is completely surrounded by Aspangberg-St. Peter. History The village was first documentary mentioned in 1220. The importance grew with the development of the road over the Wechsel Pass. Population Politics Of the 19 seats on the municipal council, the ÖVP has 15 and the SPÖ The Social Democratic Party of Austria (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs , SPÖ), founded and known as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (german: link=no, Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs, SDAPÖ) unti ... 4. References Cities and towns in Neunkirchen District, Austria {{LowerAustria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pannonian Plain
The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large basin situated in south-east Central Europe. The geomorphological term Pannonian Plain is more widely used for roughly the same region though with a somewhat different sense, with only the lowlands, the plain that remained when the Pliocene Epoch ''Pannonian Sea'' dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system, specifically a sediment-filled back-arc basin which spread apart during the Miocene. The plain or basin is diagonally bisected by the Transdanubian Mountains, separating the larger Great Hungarian Plain (including the Eastern Slovak Lowland) from the Little Hungarian Plain. It forms a topographically discrete unit set in the European landscape, surrounded by imposing geographic boundaries—the Carpathian Mountains and the Alps. The Rivers Danube and Tisza divide the basin roughly in half. It extends roughly between Vienna in the northwest, Košice in the northeast, Zagreb in the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Güns Mountains , a surname
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Güns or Guens may refer to: * Kőszeg, Hungary (german: Güns, links=no) * Kőszeg Mountains, Hungary (german: Günser Gebirge, links=no) * Gyöngyös (river) (german: Güns, links=no), Austria and Hungary, tributary of the Rába People with the surname * Akiva Güns (1761–1837), birth name of Akiva Eger, a Hungarian-Polish rabbi See also * Guns (other) * Gün Gün is a Turkish given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: * Bediha Gün Bediha Gün (born 26 October 1994) is a Turkish freestyle wrestler competing in the 55 kg division. She is a member of Ankara Aski Sport Club. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinka
The Pinka () is a river in Central Europe with a length of approximately . Its basin area is . Its source is located in Styria, eastern Austria, next to the provincial border of Burgenland. It passes into Hungary between the villages of and Felsőcsatár, and crosses the Austrian-Hungarian border five times. Further it flows into the Rába river near Körmend. Its main tributary is the . Important towns on its course are Pinkafeld (Hungarian: ''Pinkafő'') and Oberwart Oberwart (; hu, Felsőőr; hr, Gornja Borta) is a town in Burgenland in southeast Austria on the banks of the Pinka River, and the capital of the district of the same name. Oberwart is the cultural capital of the small ethnic Hungarian minor ... (Hungarian: ''Felsőőr''). References Rivers of Burgenland Rivers of Styria Rivers of Hungary Oberwart District Geography of Vas County Rivers of Austria International rivers of Europe {{Hungary-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna Basin
The Vienna Basin (german: Wiener Becken, cz, Vídeňská pánev, sk, Viedenská kotlina, Hungarian: ''Bécsi-medence'') is a geologically young tectonic burial basin and sedimentary basin in the seam area between the Alps, the Carpathians and the Pannonian Plain. Although it topographically separates the Alps from the Western Carpathians, it connects them geologically via corresponding rocks underground. Geography The fairly level area has the shape of a spindle, over an area of by . In the north it stretches up to the Marchfeld plateau beyond the Danube River. In the southeast, the Leitha Mountains separate it from the Little Hungarian Plain. In the west, it borders on the Gutenstein Alps and Vienna Woods mountain ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps. The Danube enters the basin at the Vienna Gate water gap near Mt. Leopoldsberg, it leaves at Devín Gate in the Little Carpathians east of Hainburg. From the late 12th century onwards, the fortresses of Wiener Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucklige Welt (Lower Austria)
The Bucklige Welt is a region in southeast Lower Austria. It is also known as the "land of a thousand hills" (''Land der 1000 Hügel''). Geography The ''Bucklige Welt'' is a hill country area on the eastern edge of the Alps. Its height varies between 375 and . Its name, which means something like "hilly world", is due to the very large number of hills and mountains which are known by the locals as ''Buckln''. In the southwest the Bucklige Welt is bounded by the ''Wechsel'' massif and in the west by the '' Semmering region''. To the north it descends into the ''Vienna Basin'', into which it is drained by the Pitten. To the east the ''Rosalia Mountains'' form the boundary, to the south of which the Bucklige Welt faces Oberpullendorf in the ''Central Burgenland Bay''. To the south is the ''Geschriebenstein The Geschriebenstein (), less commonly called the Írott-kő () in English sources, is a mountain, 884 metres high, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joglland
The Joglland is a heavily forested low mountain region in northeastern Styria in the districts of Bezirk Hartberg-Fürstenfeld, Hartberg-Fürstenfeld and Bezirk Weiz, Weiz. Today it forms the tourist region of ''Joglland–Waldheimat (Kraftspendedörfer Joglland)''. Its name is probably derived from ''Jacob (name), Jakob'' (perhaps from the village of Sankt Jakob im Walde) which, in this region is often corrupted to ''Joggl'' or ''Jackl''. The region is described in the literature by the Styrian poet, Peter Rosegger, who grew up as a farmer's son in Alpl (Krieglach), Alpl. Location and landscape The Joglland lies within East Styrian Hills, East Styria between the Wechsel, the upper Feistritz (Lafnitz), Feistritz valley, the Safenbach and the area of Hartberg-Friedberg (Styria), Friedberg. It forms a sub-group of the Prealps East of the Mur. To the north lies the Semmering Pass, Semmering region, to the northeast is the region known as the Bucklige Welt (Lower Austria), Bucklige ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
