Nock Mountains

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Wöllaner Nock

The Nock (rarely also Nockgebirge ) are the westernmost and highest mountain range in the Alps Gurktaler and extend over parts of Carinthia, Salzburg and Styria. Its appearance is characterized by numerous dome -like and grassy mountain peaks. Highest elevation is 2441 meters above sea level. A. high Eisenhut in Styria. The highest peak in Carinthia is the Great Rosennock ( 2440 m above sea level. A. ) and in Salzburg, the king chair ( 2336 m above sea level. A. ), in which also the triangle is. The central area of the Nock Mountains includes the Nock Mountains National Park.

The Nock Mountains form the western part of the Alps Gurktaler, they are in the north to Katschberg accrued to the Lower Tauern ( 1641 m above sea level. A. ) of the Mur. In the West, Lieser and Drava separate the Nock Mountains of the Ankogelgroup the Hohe Tauern mountains and the Gail Valley Alps. South of Lake Ossiach close Sattnitz and Klagenfurt basin, an additional part of Gurktaler Alps, at. To the east within the Gurktaler Alps they are from the line Gurk - limited Paalbach - Flattnitz altitude ( 1400 m above A.. ).

The term Nock for " peak" for the summit here typically. The word is found sporadically in the Salzburg and Tyrolean (about Hoher Nock in Rofan, Nockspitze / Saile in Innsbruck, Nockstein near Salzburg ) in the sense, overgrown rocks, highest elevation of a flattened hilltop ', akin to German cam (, rounded projection ', to the camshaft ). This places they are more recent, and probably a Umschriftung older Slavic - nik- names ( so the roses (s) ock in the 19th century still Rosenik ). Nevertheless, the word has become here quickly identity. In the tourism promotion also turns up the name Nocky Mountains on the basis of the Rocky Mountains in recent years.

The Nock can be divided into eight sub-groups are divided. South of Bad Kleinkirchheim to find the poles of the Mirnock (2110 m above sea level. A. ) with a remarkable prominence of 1,343 m and the Wöllaner Nocks ( 2145 m above sea level. A. ) and the Gerlitze (1909 m above sea level. A. ). The central part of the Nock Mountains form the Millstaetter Alpe ( 2101 m above sea level. A. ) and the Rosennock ( 2440 m above sea level. A. ). In the north, the mountain ranges of the Black Wall Quote ( 2241 m above sea level. A. ), chair of the Kingdom ( 2406 m above sea level. A. ) and the Eisenhut ( 2441 m above sea level. A. ).