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17 Mountain Peaks to Explore in Lower Austria

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Lower Austria
Lower Austria is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. It offers an incredible variety of nature and culture. With a land area of 19,186 km2 and a population of 1.612 million people, Lower Austria is the country’s largest state; it is second-most populous after the federal state of Vienna. Other main cities are Amstetten, Krems an der Donau and Wiener Neustadt.

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Mountain Peaks to Explore in Lower Austria

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Bisamberg
A beautiful mountain located in the heart of Austria. A good trekking destination and also it offers a wide view of this area and gives you an opportunity to explore the greenery of this area.
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Dürrenstein
Dürrenstein is a mountain of the Ybbstal Alps in Lower Austria. It is located in the municipality of Lunz am See and is one of the highest peak in the area. It is one of the iconic trekking location and also it offers beautiful views also.
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Fadensteig
Fadensteig is a majestic mountain located in the heart of Austria. It is one of the shortest and most popular routes for experienced mountaineers and sure-footed hikers to climb the Schneeberg, and is therefore almost a normal route. The thread is also very popular with ski tourers in winter, but it can quickly become a deadly trap when it is icy.
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Gemeindealpe
The Gemeindealpe is a 1626 m high mountain in the Lower Austrian Limestone Alps in the municipality of Mitterbach am Erlaufsee. It is also a beautiful skii area. The slopes are exposed to the east. The lower slopes are equipped with artificial snow machines. This guarantees regular skiing from December to March.
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Hochkar
Hochkar ski area in the Mostviertel offers absolute snow security as far as the eye can see. You can experience skiing pleasure at 1,808 meters and convince yourself of unique piste experiences. The mountain has one detachable quad lift, four normal quad lifts, one double chairlift and three towlifts, one of which is for children.
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Hohe Wand
A majestic mountain ridge in Lower Austria and is part of the Gutenstein Alps. It lies west of Steinfeld in the Vienna Basin; its highest peak attains a height of 1,132 m. It is one of Vienna's Hausberge. It is a wooded plateau whose flora and fauna lie in the transition zone influenced on the one hand by the Alps and on the other by the Pannonian Plain. There has long been a tourist infrastructure on the plateau. In the 1930s, a public road up to the plateau was hewn out of the rock.
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Hoher Lindkogel
The Hohe Lindkogel , also called the Iron Gate or Cold Mountain. high excursion mountain in the southern Vienna Woods and west of Baden near Vienna , in the municipality of Alland and Bad Vöslau. Due to its height and extent, the Hoher Lindkogel dominates the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods between Baden near Vienna and Bad Vöslau . Extensive pine forests cover its wide flanks.
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Husarentempelgasse
The Hussar Temple is a classical building on the Kleiner Anninger in the Föhrenberge Nature Park in the municipality of Mödling . The temple is one of the many artificial ruins built in the perimeter of Liechtenstein Castle , the seat of the Liechtensteiners at the time.Today's massive successor building was built in 1813 by Joseph Kornhäusel as a "temple of war glory" . It is dedicated to the dead of the Battle of Aspern. The tombs inside contain the bodies of five soldiers from that battle.
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Jauerling
The Jauerling is a mountain in the southeastern Waldviertel region of Lower Austria . At 960 m above sea level A. it is the highest point in the Wachau . The summit region is flat and plateau-like, so that two points reach the height of 960 m above sea level. A. reach, but summit crosses were erected in other places. AS good trekking destination and also it offers nice views too.
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Leiser Berge
The Leiser Berge are several small steep limestone mountains near Ernstbrunn in Lower Austria , they are located in the Weinviertel hill country in the Carpathian foothills .The highest of these is the Buschberg at 491 m, followed by the Steinberg at 462 m and the Oberleiser Berg at 457 m. An area of ​​4,500 ha was declared a nature park in 1970 because of its worth of protection.
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Leitha Mountains
The Leitha Mountains are a range of hills in Austria lying on the boundary between Lower Austria and Burgenland. The range is an offshoot of the Alps and forms a connection to the Carpathians to the north. The ridge is heavily forested with deciduous trees such as oak, hornbeam, and beech predominating. It is a good trekking destination and also it offers beautiful views too.
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Muckenkogel
Muckenkogel is a part of the Gutensteiner Alps in the Austrian province of Lower Austria. Rising 4095 feet above sea level, the mountain is one of several close to the historic city of Lilienfeld. Today it is of historical significance due to the Czech-born ski pioneer Mathias Zdarsky. On March 19, 1905 the first official Alpine Ski Race was held on Muckenkogel. It was won by Zdarsky. Today, the mountain is a spot for hiking, mountain biking, as well as paragliding.
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Peilstein
The steep-sided limestone mountain Peilstein in the southern Vienna Woods is 716 m above sea level. A. hoch, is located in the municipality of Altenmarkt and Weissenbach east of Nöstach and is popular as a climbing garden because of its high cliffs that drop steeply to the west . At the top is the 1923 built Peilsteinhaus of the Austrian Alpine Club , on the trail of Schwarzensee after the Second World War established Peilsteinhütte the nature lovers .
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Reisalpe
The Reisalpe is the highest mountain in the Gutenstein Alps and lies between Lilienfeld, Hohenberg and Kleinzell in Lower Austria.It is a popular destination, both for hikers in summer and also for ski mountaineering and snowshoe walks in winter, and is classed as relatively safe from avalanches.
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Schneeberg
Schneeberg is the first "real" mountain on the Eastern edge of the Austrian Alps. The Schneeberg is one of the Northern Calcareous Alps in the borderland between Lower Austria and Styria. The summit plateau has a number of mountain huts which are visited by thousands of walkers, climbers and even mountain-bikers each year. There are numerous ski runs, some of them very steep, the most famous of which leads over the Breite Ries.
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Schöpfl
The Schöpfl in Lower Austria is the highest mountain in the Vienna Woods. It is mostly covered by deciduous forest. On its summit is the Matraswarte , from which, in good weather, you can see the highest mountains in Lower Austria, the Schneeberg and the Rax. Because of the purity of the air and the much lower light pollution compared to Vienna, the University of Vienna 's Leopold Figl Observatory was built in 1969 on the Mitteröpfl, a nearby secondary summit.
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Unterberg
A majestic summit in the Gutenstein Alps in southern Lower Austria. The mountain is made of limestone rock and has a steep, wooded face to the northwest which is pierced by crags, whilst to the southeast it falls away only half as sharply. It is a local winter sports centre with several ski pistes and is popular in spring for ski mountaineering. The skiing area also offers a beautiful panoramic view of the foothills of the Alps as well as a clear view of Schneeberg and Rax.

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