Sternstein

The star stone of Schenkenfelden seen. Free areas within the forest are ski slopes

The star stone is 1125 m above sea level. A. high mountain north of the town of Bad Leonfelden in Upper Austria, near the Czech border. Geologically, it is part of the Bohemian Massif and is the easternmost point of the Bohemian Forest.

The majority of the star stone located in the municipality Vorderweißenbach, as well as the Star Stone waiting at the top of the mountain, which is found in the coat of arms of both communities ( symbolically as a star at Vorderweißenbach clearly imaged at Bad Leonfelden ). About the peak the European watershed between the Danube and Moldova.

On the eastern slope, approximately 100 to 150 meters below the summit is about a 120 meter wide and deep hollow. This is highly likely that a glacial formation. More icing traces as moraines, etc. Eisschliffe has not yet been discovered. This would be the easternmost glaciation in the Bohemian Forest, as the snow line was during the Ice Age around 1100 meters above sea level, the glacier tongues ranged up to 900 meters above sea level down. Nevertheless, the area is one of the star stone with an annual average temperature of less than 6 ° C for the coldest areas of the whole of Upper Austria.

A chair of Swoboda opens up the mountain with its two runways. In Winter 4 km of ski slopes are groomed. From the winter 2009/10 the chair is replaced by a combination of rope and chair lift and the ski area expanded to a third runway.