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The Graz Highlands or Graz Mountains () are a low
The most important summits are the:
* Hochlantsch (1,720 m)
* Osser (1,548 m)
* Rote Wand (1,505 m)
* Schöckl (1,445 m)
* Zetz (1,274 m)
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Steiermark Hochlantsch 050.jpg, Summit of the Hochlantsch
Steiermark Teichalm.jpg, Teichalm region
Baerenschuetzklamm20070528 4.jpg, Ascent through the
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mountain range
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north of the Styria
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n state capital of Graz
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in Austria. It is part of the Central Alps
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and forms the start 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 ...
. From a geological perspective, regions on the west bank of the Mur, which are clearly separate from the building 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 ...
, belong to the Graz Highlands.
Location
The Graz Highlands are a low mountain massif in the north of the Styrian Hills and lie mainly east of the River Mur. The core area of settlement is the Passail Basin, the adjacent Semriach Basin to the southwest and the Teichalm region to the north.Boundaries
The GrazHighlands
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are bounded:
* in the west by the Mur valley from Mixnitz
Pernegg an der Mur is a municipality in the district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag in Styria, Austria. It is home to the famous Drachenhöhle cave and Bärenschützklamm gorge.
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to the northern city limits of Graz
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. By geological definition certain parts west of the Mur are also counted as part of the Graz Highlands, especially those which belong to the Graz Palaezoic, such as the Plabutsch ''Buchkogelzug''
* in the north by the Breitenauertal (valley containing Breitenau am Hochlantsch) and the valley of the ''Gasenbach''. Other definitions view it as the line from ''Mixnitzbach'' via Teichalm to Gasen
* in the northeast by the upper Feistritz valley
In the south and southeast the Graz Highlands transition into the East Styrian Hills and Graz Basin.
Mountains
The most important summits are the:
* Hochlantsch (1,720 m)
* Osser (1,548 m)
* Rote Wand (1,505 m)
* Schöckl (1,445 m)
* Zetz (1,274 m)
* Röthelstein
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The Styria municipal structural reform (German: ''Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturrefo ...
(1,263 m)
* Hochtrötsch (1,239 m)
* Schiffall (1,221 m) and Kreuzkogel (1,181 m)
* Pleschkogel (1,061 m)
* Hohe Rannach (1,018 m)
* Generalkogel (713 m)
* Eggenberg (707 m)
Gallery
Bärenschützklamm
The Bärenschützklamm ("Bärenschütz Gorge") is a narrow valley in the Graz Highlands in the Central Eastern Alps, Austrian Central Alps. It was carved out of limestone by the Mixnitzbach ("Mixnitz Creek") and is a popular tourist destination.
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gorge
Katerloch1.JPG, Katerloch
Schüsserlbrunn Kapelle.jpg, Schüsserlbrunn pilgrimage church
Literature
* Helmut Flügel: ''Die Geologie des Grazer Berglandes.'' 2nd edn., Graz, 1975, = ''Mitteilungen der Abteilung für Geologie, Paläontologie und Bergbau amLandesmuseum Joanneum
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'', Sonderheft 1 (1. Aufl. ''Erläuterungen zur Geologischen Wanderkarte des Grazer Berglandes 1 : 100,000.'' hsg. Geologische Bundesanstalt, Vienna, 1960at museum-joanneum.at).
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