The Fischbach Alps () are part of the

Prealps East of the Mur The Prealps East of the Mur () are the easternmost mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps. They comprise the eastern foothills of the Alpine crest beyond the Mur river and the adjacent southeastern Alpine Foreland. Boundary and neighbourin ...

Location and countryside

The Fischbach Alps are a gentle, elongated

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...

in the

Alps The Alps () are some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia. ...

, with the character of a low mountain range and covered in forests and Alpine meadows. They are located in the

Styria Styria ( ; ; ; ) is an Austrian Federal states of Austria, state in the southeast of the country. With an area of approximately , Styria is Austria's second largest state, after Lower Austria. It is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and cloc ...

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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

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and part of the

Styrian Prealps The Styrian Prealps (in German ''Steirisches Randgebirge'', in Slovenian ''Štajersko Robno hribovje'', in Hungarian ''Stájer Elő-Alpok'') is the proposed name for a subdivision of mountains in a new, and as yet unadopted, classification of t ...

. They extend from the water gap of the Mur in the west to the

Feistritz Saddle The Feistritz Saddle (, elevation ) is a high mountain pass in the Austrian Alps between the ''Bundesländer'' of Lower Austria and Styria. The pass leads between the Wechsel () and the Stuhleck (). With the Semmering, it is one of the most ...

in the east. Their highest summit is the

Stuhleck Stuhleck (1,782 m) is a mountain in Steiermark, Austria. It is the highest mountain of the Fischbach Alps and of the Prealps east of the Mur. Lying in the sparsely populated commune of Spital am Semmering Spital am Semmering, in the Semmering ...

(). 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 Rennfeld (1,629 m) is a mountain in the Fischbach Alps, part of the Prealps east of the Mur. It is the westernmost peak of the range. Rennfeld is the highest of the three hausbergs of the city of Bruck an der Mur Bruck an der Mur () is a city o ...

(1,629 m).

Culture

The mountains are named after the village of Fischbach. In the Fischbach Alps lies ''Alpl'' (in the municipality of

Krieglach Krieglach is a municipality in the district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag in Styria, Austria. It is the hometown of the renowned poet and writer Peter Rosegger Peter Rosegger (original ''Roßegger'') (31 July 1843 – 26 June 1918) was an Austrian w ...

), the birthplace of

Peter Rosegger Peter Rosegger (original ''Roßegger'') (31 July 1843 – 26 June 1918) was an Austrian writer and poet from Krieglach in the province of Styria. He was a son of a mountain farmer and grew up in the woodlands and mountains of Alpl. Rosegger (o ...

. In 1998 a broadcast in the

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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

, 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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