Olševa
Sign in to saveMount Olševa (; German Olschewa) is a ridge mountain in the eastern part of the Karawanks near the border with Austria. The mountain separates Carinthia from Styria. Its highest point, Govca, is high. Other peaks along the ridge are Obel kamen on the western side, and Smooth Peak (Gladki vrh) and Pretty Peak (Lepi vrh) on the eastern part. About below Obel kamen lies Potok Cave (), an archaeological site from the Stone Age. To the southwest of the mountain, at an altitude of , there is a chalybeate (iron-rich) spring.
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It sits within the topics Karawanks, Mountains of Carinthia (Slovenia) and Mountains of Styria (Slovenia).
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- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Slovenia
- Located in
- Municipality of Črna na Koroškem
- Elevation
- 1929
- Image
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Mount Olševa (; German Olschewa) is a ridge mountain in the eastern part of the Karawanks near the border with Austria. The mountain separates Carinthia from Styria. Its highest point, Govca, is high. Other peaks along the ridge are Obel kamen on the western side, and Smooth Peak (Gladki vrh) and Pretty Peak (Lepi vrh) on the eastern part. About below Obel kamen lies Potok Cave (), an archaeological site from the Stone Age. To the southwest of the mountain, at an altitude of , there is a chalybeate (iron-rich) spring.
== Routes== 2¼ hrs from Podolševa (difficult marked route) 3 hrs from the lower ridge (Spodnje sleme; easy marked route) 3¾ hrs from the Firšt Inn (Gostišče Firšt; somewhat demanding marked route) 1¾ hrs from Upper Meadow (Zadnji travnik; easy marked route)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Olševa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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