The Hochstadl is a mountain of the
Ybbstal Alps
The Ybbstal Alps () are a mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps and part of the Eastern Alps, located in Austria.
They occupy an area along the borders of the states of Upper Austria, Lower Austria and Styria. The range includes the easter ...
located in
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 ...
, Austria, belonging to the
Kräuterin The Kräuterin is a karst massif with a size of 10 km by 12 km, located in the Ybbstal Alps, Austria. Its highest peak is the Hochstadl, at 1919 meters above sea level.
Mountain ranges of Styria
Karst
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karst
Karst () is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone and Dolomite (rock), dolomite. It is characterized by features like poljes above and drainage systems with sinkholes and caves underground. Ther ...
massif. It is the highest summit of the
Northern Lower Austria Alps.
Geography
Administratively the mountain belongs to the
Austrian state of Styria.
Access to the summit
The suggested route for the mountain starts from Dürradmer and reaches the top through the Kräuterinhütte (Kräuterin
mountain hut
A mountain hut is a building located at high elevation, in mountainous terrain, generally accessible only by foot, intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineering, mountaineers, climbing, climbers and Hiking, hikers. Mountain huts are us ...
) at 1,394 m.
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One-thousanders of Austria
Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Styria