Wechsel
Sign in to saveThe Wechsel is a low mountain range in eastern Austria whose highest summit is the Hochwechsel (). It also has two other summits over 1700 m. The massif forms the border between the states of Lower Austria and Styria for about 15 km, southeast of the Semmering and northeast of the Graz Basin, between the Feistritz Saddle and the eponymous pass of Wechsel.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Wechsel
- Mountain.other_name
- (Wechsel region)
- Mountain.map
- Austria
- Mountain.photo
- Wechsel Satellitenbild.png
- Mountain.photo_caption
- The Wechsel region from 10,000 metres
- Mountain.state
- Lower Austria and Styria, Austria
- Mountain.parent
- Prealps East of the Mur (AVE) / Cetic Alps and East Styrian-Burgenland Hills (Trimmel); Eastern Alps
- Mountain.geology
- Triassic carbonate, quartzite/quartz conglomerate, arkose slate-breccia-porphyroid-series (Wechsel slate, Alpine verrucano)
- Mountain.period
- Permian/Triassic (300–200 MYA)
- Mountain.type
- foothills
- Mountain.highest
- Hochwechsel
- Mountain.length_km
- 15
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The Wechsel is a low mountain range in eastern Austria whose highest summit is the Hochwechsel (). It also has two other summits over 1700 m. The massif forms the border between the states of Lower Austria and Styria for about 15 km, southeast of the Semmering and northeast of the Graz Basin, between the Feistritz Saddle and the eponymous pass of Wechsel.
== Geography == thumb|left|The Hochwechsel The Wechsel is part of the Prealps East of the Mur. It is – apart from the Vienna Woods which are half the height – the easternmost range in the Alps. Its highest point, at , is the Hochwechsel, formerly called the Hoher Umschuss, at the top of which is the Wetterkoglerhaus, an Alpine Club hut belonging to the Austrian Alpine Club. From there the crest of the mountains runs northwest to the Umschußriegel (,) continuing to the Schöberlriegel (), and east to the Niederwechsel ().