Leitha Mountains

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The Leitha Mountains is geographically located on the border between Lower Austria and Burgenland. In the Leitha Mountains are located with the nature park village men desert and the Natural Park Neusiedler See- Leitha Mountains two nature parks.

Location

The Leitha Mountains or the Leithaberge as colloquially called, is a 35 km long and 5-7 km wide ridge at the edge of the Vienna Basin in the west between Brucker gate in the north and in the south of Wiener Neustadt gate. When foothills of the Alps, the Leitha Mountains providing a link to the Carpathian Mountains in the north.

The highest point is 484 m above sea level. A. Sonnenberg, entirely in Burgenland. The ridge is heavily wooded. Deciduous trees, such as oak, hornbeam and beech, are predominant. At the south-eastern slopes of the mountains on Burgenland side, and shallow to Lake Neusiedl, vineyards landscape are determinative.

Geology

The geology of the Leitha Mountains of gneiss and mica schist and overlying limestone, which is known as Leithakalk. The lime is used due to its purity and for producing chalk. Main use is the limestone today for the production of cement and also as a building material and sculptor.

The most important localities of Leithakalk and Leitha lime sandstones, an alphabetical, historical list: Au am Leithaberge, bathroom German Altenburg, width Brunn, Hainburg an der Donau, Hof am Leithaberge, Dog Home, Kaiserstein of Kaisersteinbruch with the Steinmetz Museum, Kroisbach, Maria Loretto, Manner village with the famous stone cutting department of the local Museum, garbage village, St. Margaret, Somme pure, Stotzing, Winden am See and Wollersdorf. "The quality of the fractured limestones was here in the past is reason enough to embark on the long and arduous journey from Vienna, the capital of the empire to himself. Ox carts pulled ton stones to Vienna, on roads that had nothing to do with today's roads. "

Elias Hill, imperial Hofsteinmetz and church builder in the imperial quarry at Leithaberg in the first half of the 18th century, was and is the most important masters of the Leitha Mountains across the ages. 250 years later, after the Second World War, worked in Manner am Leithagebirge with Friedrich Opferkuh again a master stonemason, who broke all boundaries of a craftsman, was a teacher of future university professors.

Colonization

Settled the Leitha Mountains is itself hardly the places are all on the edge. The most important places are men village with a large cement factory, Burgenland Eisenstadt, capital city and the tourist resorts of thunder churches ( known by the ever visible from Lake Neusiedl from Mountain Church of St. Martin ) and Donnerskirchen. A military training camp of the armed forces is in Bruckneudorf and surrounded entirely to the district Kaisersteinbruch.

Militarily, the Leitha Mountains has always been important because while there are a small defense against attackers from the east offered, but easier to defend was when the two doors.

Quarry Gallery

Manner villages Quarries 1870

Kaisersteinbruch Hausbruch North Face

Kaiser quarry entrance into the cultural landscape "Blue Break"

Loretto quarry, circa 1870