Schneealpe
Sign in to saveThe Schneealpe or Schneealm is a limestone massif in the Northern Limestone Alps on the Styrian-Lower Austrian border. Its highest point is the Windberg at 1,903 metres above sea level. Other peaks are the Ameisbühel (also Amaißbichl, 1,828 m, in the east, on the Styrian-Lower Austrian border), the Schönhaltereck (1,860 m, west of the Windberg) and the Donnerwand (1,799 m, in the northwest).
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Schneealpe
- Mountain.photo
- Neuberg2006 schneealpe.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- The Schneealpe massif from Neuberg
- Mountain.elevation
- ()
- Mountain.isolation
- 7.3 km → Heukuppe
- Mountain.prominence
- 693 m ↓ Naßkamm
- Mountain.range
- Mürzsteg Alps
- Mountain.location
- Styria, Austria
- Mountain.map
- Austria
- Mountain.type
- Plateau mountain
- Mountain.normal_route
- Walkable
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Mountain huts
- References
- External links
The Schneealpe or Schneealm is a limestone massif in the Northern Limestone Alps on the Styrian-Lower Austrian border. Its highest point is the Windberg at 1,903 metres above sea level. Other peaks are the Ameisbühel (also Amaißbichl, 1,828 m, in the east, on the Styrian-Lower Austrian border), the Schönhaltereck (1,860 m, west of the Windberg) and the Donnerwand (1,799 m, in the northwest).
Its valley settlements are Hinternaßwald in the northeast, Altenberg an der Rax in the east, Kapellen and Neuberg an der Mürz in the south, Mürzsteg and Frein an der Mürz in the west. The heavily wooded mountains and hills north of the Schneealpe are uninhabited.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schneealpe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations