The Bucklige Welt is a region in southeast

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. 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 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, so ...

'' massif and in the west by the '' Semmering region''. To the north it descends into the ''

Vienna Basin The Vienna Basin (, , , 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 Al ...

'', into which it is drained by the

Pitten Pitten is a Market Municipality in the district of Neunkirchen in the Austrian federal state of Lower Austria Lower Austria ( , , abbreviated LA or NÖ) is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. ...

. To the east the ''

Rosalia Mountains The Rosalia Mountains (, , Burgenland ), sometimes called the ''Rosalie Mountains'' or ''Rosalien Mountains'', are an outlier of the Alps on the state border between Lower Austria and Burgenland in Austria. The low mountain range runs from north ...

'' form the boundary, to the south of which the Bucklige Welt faces

Oberpullendorf Oberpullendorf (; or ; ) is a town in Burgenland, Austria. It is the administrative center of the district of Oberpullendorf (district), Oberpullendorf. Geography Oberpullendorf is a municipality in the middle of the Burgenland. It consists o ...

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, high,glaciation A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances. Interglacials, on the other hand, are periods of warmer climate be ...

during the

ice age An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and g ...

in the area of the Bucklige Welt because of its low

elevation The elevation of a geographic location (geography), ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational equipotenti ...

. The summit of the Hochwechsel must therefore only have a slight covering of

firn __NOTOC__ Firn (; from Swiss German "last year's", cognate with ''before'') is partially compacted névé, a type of snow that has been left over from past seasons and has been recrystallized into a substance denser than névé. It is ice that ...

snow.Wolfgang Schnabel (Red.): ''Geologische Karte von Niederösterreich 1:200.000''.

Geologische Bundesanstalt The Geological Survey of Austria (, GBA) in Vienna is a subordinate agency of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and is the central point for information and advice in the field of earth sciences for the Republic of Austria. ...

, Vienna, 2002. ISBN 978-3-85316-017-6

Climate

Despite its small size, the Buckelige Welt has three different climatic zones: its southeastern part belongs to Austria's 'Illyrian climate province', while a Pannonian climate predominates in the northern edge area. The central and higher areas can be assigned to the

alpine Alpine may refer to any mountainous region. It may also refer to: Places Europe * Alps, a European mountain range ** Alpine states, which overlap with the European range Australia * Alpine, New South Wales, a Northern Village * Alpine National P ...

transitional climate.Alois M. Holzer: ''Wetterchronik der Buckligen Welt'' 2. Auflage, Krumbach 1997 (Online: )

References

External links

{{Commonscat, Bucklige Welt
Common region of Bucklige Welt
Mountain ranges of the Alps Regions of Austria Neunkirchen District, Austria Mountain ranges of Styria Mountain ranges of Lower Austria