Schlern
Seen schoolboys with Petz (left) and Postal (middle), and Santner and Euringer of the Seiser Alm
The Schlern ( 2,563 m, ital Sciliar from ladin. Sciliër ) is a mountain in the Dolomites in South Tyrol, Italy.
Despite its small amount of stock -like west pillar of the Dolomites is true because of its characteristic shape with both the upstream mountain peaks, the Santner ( 2,413 m) and the Euringer ( 2,394 m), as a symbol of South Tyrol. He is the namesake of the surrounding mountain range, the Schlern group. The Schlern itself carries a high surface whose early pasture economic use is being witnessed by prehistoric finds, and towers over the Seiser Alm, the highest high pasture of Europe, as well as the low mountain range of Castelrotto. The castle barn ( 2,515 m) forms the northern edge of the mountain, its highest peak is the Petz ( 2,564 m), the Gabels Mull ( 2,390 m) and the young Schlern ( 2,280 m ) dominates. On the Schlern the section Bolzano of the German and Austrian Alpine Club on August 22, 1885, opened a shelter that was built in 1903 united with the standing next inn to the schlern houses ( now owned by the Club Alpino Italiano). 1969 built the section of the Alpine Club Bolzano South Tyrol the Schlernbödelehütte. In 1974 the surrounding area was declared a Natural Park, now part of the Natural Park Sciliar garden.
Etymology
The testified as Schlernkhofl or on the damage of learning in the 16th century mountain name is vordeutschen origin, and probably goes back to pre-Roman Etym * Sala " stream, ditch, channel ". In the medieval Eindeutschung the basic form of the name was connected with the suffix -en, the e Bavarian has turned out early, so that the articulation was Salern ( Oswald von Wolkenstein still writes Saleren ). Because preservation of vordeutschen emphasis on the first syllable finally shrank to SI what phonetics to Schl- led. Originally, the name probably for the schlern ditch and the schlern Bach; after them the massif should first Schlernkofel (see the case from the 16th century. ), then have been called Schlern.
Geology
The Schlern massif consists mainly of sedimentary rocks of the Middle Triassic. The banked Dolomite of the rose garden lineup and Ross teeth formation arose in large part to about 30 degrees steep slopes of a carbonate platform, in the central platform area as a flat-lying sediments. Between the rose garden lineup and Ross teeth formation is volcanic rocks that have arisen in the Ladinian find. Superimposed on these are formations of the Sciliar Plateau Formation, which is formed of dolomite and limestone beds other. The highest parts of the plateau Schlern be built from rocks of the main dolomite of the Upper Triassic.