User:MeritedElm63160/Flatzer Wand
| Auf der Kehr | |
|---|---|
 Flatzer Wand | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 790AT |
| Listing | Gutenstein Alps |
| Coordinates | 47/45/16/N - 16/01/01/E |
| Geography | |
| Location | Lower Austria |
The Flatzer Wand is a rocky outcrop of the mountain Auf der Kehr (790 m above sea level). It is located near Flatz (municipality of Ternitz) in Lower Austria, in the Sierningtal-Flatzer Wand Nature Park of the Gutenstein Alps.
To the term change
Flatzer Wand is also used as a name for the whole mountain, whose peak is the wooded Auf der Kehr, occasionally also for the whole massif, whose highest peak is the 898 m high Gösing.
Location and landscape change
Auf der Kehr is a flat forest plateau that offers hardly any view. On its southern slope, directly at the village of Flatz, a strongly rugged wall abyss, the Flatzer Wand, extends over about one kilometer, with free wall heights up to about 100 meters. Overall, the Flatzer Wand resembles the well-known Hohe Wand.[1][2]
Settlement change
The Flatzer Wand is an old settlement area. Human bones and artefacts have been found in the Long Hole, suggesting that there has been at least a temporary settlement since the early Stone Age. In the late Bronze Age (around 1000 BC) there was a small mining settlement along the southern slope below the Flatzer Wand. Several houses stood on artificial settlement terraces, the remains of which were built in the course of the expansion of the forest road network at the end of the 20th century. Century were found. Copper ore was smelted on the opposite slope of the Gösing.[3]
Paths and huts change
On the western edge of the wall is the Neunkirchner Naturfreundehaus, which is only open on weekends, but is open all year round. The base of the wall as well as the wall edge are well developed with paths, with numerous accesses to the climbing routes. The Willi Gottwaldsteig leads off the forest roads, but without climbing sections, up to the refuge.
Climbing area change
The Flatzer Wand is a well-developed climbing area with a dozen via ferrata routes in the difficulties 0-D (the most difficult route is the E60 route with C/D) and over 100 climbing routes up to about difficulty grade IX. The most famous secured via ferratas are (from west to east):
- E60 (C / D)
- Ternitzersteig (A)
- Flatzerlochsteig (A / B)
- Fürststeig (A)
- Jubilee Trail (A / B)
One of the "most beautiful 'very easy' climbing routes in the foothills of the Alps" also leads to the Flatzer Wand[4]: the historic Doppelsteig[5] in difficulty grade II.
Caves change
The Flatzer Wand is rich in caves.[6][7][8]
- The best known is the Flatzer Tropfsteinhöhle (Long Hole, cadastral number 1861/9) with side entrance Dachslucke (1861/2), which was opened up as a show cave in 1904-1906, with artifact and fossil finds.
- Second largest cave of the Flatzer Wand is Rötellucke (Rötelloch, 1861/13) with a total passage length of 81 m (end room Forscherhalle), in the entrance area excavation traces (potsherds, animal bones).
- Walled gap (Flatzer Loch, 1861/5, length 12 m), in the western part of the Flatzer Wand, accessible via Ternitzer Steig - here the Flatzer population sought refuge from the Turks in vain in 1683.
- Schiebbögen (1861/14) in the western part: cave ruins consisting of two passage caves (natural bridges), the Fürststeig leads through the larger one, the Ternitzer Steig, which starts here, leads through the other one.
- Also interesting is the Schwarze Lucke (Jungfrauenhöhle, Marienhöhle, 1861/16), about 100 m west of the Langes Loch, a rocky niche, as a cave cult site furnished with contemporary religious devotional objects (images of the Virgin Mary).
- Bergmilchkluft (1861/32, total length 33 m): a crevice cave with scour and sinter formations, as well as whitish mountain milk.
- Rohrauerhöhle (wall cave, 1861/24, length 48 m): silt route, labyrinthine and dangerous
- New cave (1861/11, 26 m, barred after first hall)
Literature change
- Günther Gsenger: Flatzer Wand: Hikes, caves, nature trail . Issue 2; TVN publisher, 1993
Climbing:
- Kurt Schall, Thomas Behm: Pleasure climbing atlas Austria East: Hohe Wand, Flatzer Wand, Schneeberg, Raxalpe, Grazer Bergland, Hochschwab, Gesäuse, Teufelskanzel, Wachau. 250 super climbing routes Difficulty level: 2 to 7-, issue 2, Verlag Schall, 1996
- Gerald and Georg Gsenger: Flatzer Wand Topos: Climbing Guide, Issue 2; Publisher TV Naturfreunde Neunkirchen, 1991
Speleology:
- Höhlen in der Flatzer Wand. 1912.; aufgearbeitet in: [Sonstige Publikationen Wissenschaftliche Beihefte zur Zeitschrift „Die Höhle“ (pdf, S. 3; 43 kB), beide VÖH Die Höhlen Niederösterreichs]. Vol. Band 1. 1979.
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Other websites change
References change
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Die Flatzer Wand ist ein verkleinertes, aber nicht kleines Abbild der Hohen Wand.
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Die Flatzer Wand ist gewissermaßen ein verkleinertes Abbild der Hohen Wand.
- ↑ Die Pfarrkirche von St. Lorenzen am Steinfeld (1. ed.). 2008-08. pp. 7–9.
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- ↑ Literatur Fink, Hartmann (Red.), VÖH (ed.), Die Höhlen Niederösterreichs (in German)
- ↑ Franz Lindenmayr. "Landschaft und Höhlen in der Flatzer Wand, Niederösterreich". Mensch und Höhle. Retrieved 2010-10-14.
- ↑ Fotos von den Höhlen.