The Fischbach Alps () are part of the
Prealps East of the Mur.
Location and countryside
The Fischbach Alps are a gentle, elongated
mountain range
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in the
Alps
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, with the character of a low mountain range and covered in forests and Alpine meadows. They are located in the
Styria
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in
Austria
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, south of the
Mürz
The Mürz () is a river in Styria, Austria, with a length of . Its drainage basin is .
The Mürz begins at the confluence of the and near Kaltenbach, Neuberg and the border to Lower Austria. It passes through Mürzzuschlag. Along its course are ...
. They are the eastern outliers of the
Central Alps and part of the
Styrian Prealps.
They extend from the water gap of the
Mur in the west to the
Feistritz Saddle in the east. Their highest summit is the
Stuhleck (). Other high points are the
Pretul (1,656 m) and Amundsenhöhe (1,666 m), the
Teufelstein (1,498 m), the Stanglalpe (1,490 m), the Sauernkogel (1,451 m), the Steinriegel (1,577 m), the Hochschlag (1,580 m) and the
Rennfeld (1,629 m).
Culture
The mountains are named after the village of
Fischbach.
In the Fischbach Alps lies ''Alpl'' (in the municipality of
Krieglach), the birthplace of
Peter Rosegger. In 1998 a broadcast in the
ORF series, ''Klingendes Österreich'', highlighted the Fischbach Alps. Under the title of ''Gebirge ohne Härte: Die Fischbacher Alpen'' the programme covered the most important villages and peaks in the Fischbach Alps.
File:Fischbacher_Alpen.JPG, Left, the Teufelstein, centre right, the Stuhleck, foreground, the village of Fischbach
File:Mürzzuschlag von oben.jpg, Near Mürzzuschlag
Mürzzuschlag () is a town in northeastern Styria, Austria, the capital of the former Mürzzuschlag District. It is located on the Mürz river near the Semmering Pass, the border with the state of Lower Austria, about southwest of Vienna. The ...
File:Aufnahmeblatt 4955-4 Mürzzuschlag.jpg, The Fischbach Alps (centre) around 1876 (photograph by the Landesaufnahme)
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Mountain ranges of Styria
Mur (river)