Mecsek

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Situation in Hungary

Typical landscape in the Mecsek

The Mecsek [ mɛtʃɛk ] (also Mecsek ) is a 45 km long mountain range in southern Hungary in Baranya county, just north of the city of Pécs. The mountain range extends in a width of 10 to 15 km away from the southwest to west Ostnordnost where some peaks reach over 600 meters in altitude. Approximately in the middle of the southern foothills lies Pécs.

On some hilltops themselves of castles (Hungarian Vár ), eg Pécsvárad and Zengővárkony, which is named after the projecting south Zengő.

Geography

The Mecsek rises from a flat area ( altitude of the Pannonian Plain 110-150 m ) and is therefore very striking despite its low absolute level. The mountains can be seen on clear already from about 100 km away. The highest mountain is the Zengő in the northeast with a height of 684 m. In total, there are about a dozen peaks over 500 meters in altitude.

The division between Western and Ostmecsek is very clear, that is, from Zengő from acts of Westmecsek as a separate high range of hills, while the Jakab Hegy ( Westmecsek ) when facing east, a similar, but slightly higher landscape can be seen. The Nordmecsek is hilly sloping to the north.

Geology

The mountain range is on the surface of highly verkarstetem chalk rock. According frequently are caves, of which one has located at Abaliget particularly interesting Abaliget cave even a creek in their interior.

In the deeper, up to 800 m thick and highly folded strata of the Lias formation dozens of coal seams are included. They were dismantled in Pécs and Komló, but has been promoting pretty much been in the last decades. Approximately 1960 to 1990 also uranium ore was mined at the Mecsek.

Fauna and Flora

The higher regions are comprehensively covered with deciduous forest. Particularly noteworthy are more extensive, almost pure chestnut forests, which are found in this form only in few places in the world ( eg, at the edge of the Günser Mountains in Austria ).

The south facing slopes of the Mecsek be used for the cultivation of wines.

Transport links

Pécs and Komló have a railway station. About the B6 and B57 of the Mecsek area of eastern Hungary and Budapest is very easy to reach. However, about 35 km of road are signposted as " dangerous section of road accidents " in the room Mecsek. On the side streets the traffic is very low.

Larger towns in the Mecsek Mountains

• Pécs ( Westmecsek )
• Hosszúhetény ( Ostmecsek, southern slope of Zengő )
• Pécsvárad ( Ostmecsek )
• Komló ( Nordmecsek )

Westmecsek

At the western Mecsek are Pécs, Jakab Hegy (Jacob Berg) and the Misina Tetö with the TV tower (600 m ). Emanating from Pecs streets surround the mountains in the south and east, to the TV tower, a road leads. There is also a zoo and viewpoints ( Kis -Tubes, Jánoskilátó, Zsongorkő ).

Ostmecsek

For slightly higher Ostmecsek include besides the above- mentioned Zengő among others, the summit of Kövestető and the three mountain ( Hármashegy ).

• Mountains in Europe
• Mountains in Hungary
• Mecsek
• Baranya county