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The Günser Mountains ( also Günser mountains or Günser Bergland, Hungarian Kőszegi - hegység ) is a group of forested mountains on the border between Austria and Hungary with heights between 600 and 900 meters. The hill country is geologically related to the central Central Alps of the Hohe Tauern, although it is already at the transition to the Pannonian lowlands.

Geoscientifically Günser the mountains is sometimes referred to as of Rechnitz Slate Mountains and tectonically as of Rechnitz window.

Geography

The relatively gently undulating mountain has an area of ​​about 15 x 20 km and is about 80% in Burgenland, Austria, but has its name from the western Hungarian border town Güns ( ungar Kőszeg ). It is situated in the triangle between the cities Oberwart, Oberpullendorf and Kőszeg, bordered to the north by the Lower Austrian hunchback world and is drained by the rivers Pinka and Rabnitz to the south, while the Güns, which forms the northern boundary to the east flows directly to the Raab.

The almost entirely forested area (latitude 47 ° 17 ' to 47 ° 25 ' North, longitude 16 ° 18 'to 16 ° 32 ' E) and is crossed by the Geschriebenstein road ( B56 ) curls House Rechnitz that and with heights between 300 820 m passes close to the state border. On the western edge of the " Castle Road " runs from Kirchschlag or Günseck by Bernstein and Stadtschlaining to the district capital of Upper warden. Into the mountains even lead except the B56 only some branch roads, of which those by glassworks and the former mine but almost the hill of the Little Deer Stone ( 836 m above sea level. A. ) achieved.

The highest peaks are Geschriebenstein with a height of 884 m above sea level. A. with a vantage point directly to the state border, and the Great Hirschenstein ( 862 m above sea level. A. ) with radio stations. The Geschriebenstein is the highest mountain of the entire Burgenland. The western boundary of the actual mountain forms the 500 m high saddle between Goberling and felling. On the sunny hillside of Rechnitz to Schlaining there are orchards and vineyards and plantations of chestnut.

Geology

Geologists call the hill country also Rechnitz Slate Mountains and hold it to the north subsequent Bernsteiner Mountains along the so-called Günser spur. It separates the one hand, the middle of the southern Burgenland and on the other hand, forms the transition from the Hungarian Plain and the eastern edge of the Alps. The mountain is built up of metamorphic crystalline schists ( Bündnerschiefer ) and igneous rocks on ( ophiolites ) that have similarity to rocks of the Tauern Window in the Hohe Tauern mountains and those of the Engadine window and the Gargellenfensters. Similar rocks such as in Günser Mountains are not only found in the north Bernsteiner mountains, but also about 10 km further south at German rifle Eisenberg.

As the Tauern window occupies the Günser Mountains, geologically referred to as of Rechnitz window, a special place, not because its geologically older rocks rise from the younger tertiary rocks of the environment, but because it is rocks, belonging to the Penninic, and here present in a tectonic window. The Alpine geological unit of the Penninikums is otherwise in Austria not to be found except for the above exceptions to the earth's surface: it is covered by the rocks of the Austroalpine that in the formation of the Alps from the south several hundred or even a thousand kilometer than tectonic ceiling have been advanced over the Penninic.

While Situated in the north-east Semmering window, however, is also a tectonic window, there occur but younger units of the Austroalpine among older unit to the same day.

The Günser Mountains is rich in mineral resources, of which the pyrites in glassworks, the chalcopyrite at Schlaining and the asbestos in Rechnitz, however, were uneconomical. Significantly, however, remained the antimony mining in Stadtschlaining and the Serpentine, which has formed on the slopes of the Little Plischa ( 639 m above sea level. A. ) from Penninic ophiolites.