Gerichtsberg Pass

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The court is a mountain pass in Lower Austria between the Triestingtal and the Gölsental. Besides this mountain there is in many places, the names according to a court hill on which were located in the medieval courts or prisons. At the same court mountain is also a district of grove box.

The pass Gerichtsberg has a height of 581 m above sea level. A. and forms the watershed between the drainage in the Vienna Basin and north over the Traisen. The historic Via Sacra, the pilgrim route from Vienna to Mariazell, here runs through this pass. Today, run the Hainfelder Road ( B 18 ) and the rails of the 2004 set Leobersdorfer web. About the Gerichtsberg a popular abbreviation of the Western Motorway and the Vienna outer ring road leading to the southern motorway. As this distance increases also used truck, it was except for the riparian traffic Triestingtal and Gölsental locked for trucks. The Gerichtsberg observe, especially in winter, despite the small amount often an obstacle to traffic, since the situation may be much more critical than in the neighboring valleys.

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