The Bucklige Welt is a region in southeast Lower Austria . It is also known as the "land of a thousand hills" ( Land der 1000 Hügel ).
6-632: The Bucklige Welt is a hill country area on the eastern edge of the Alps. Its height varies between 375 and 900 m (AA) . Its name, which means something like 'hilly world', is due to the very large number of hills and mountains which are known by the locals as Buckln . In the southwest the Bucklige Welt is bounded by the Wechsel massif and in the west by the Semmering region . To
12-696: The Kronstadt Gauge of the Baltic Sea , which is 0.6747 m (2.214 ft) higher. Whilst for Austria the 1875 gauge is used as the datum, the states of former Yugoslavia use the 1900 gauge ( Nadmorska visina, m/nv ). In Albania (normal-orthometric height) they also refer to heights as 'metres above the Adriatic', but use a specific tide gauge in the port of Durrës . The individual countries using this datum abbreviate it in different ways depending on their local language, as follows: 'Metres above
18-675: The Port of Trieste . The gauging station in the Port of Trieste was established in 1875 by the local observatory run by the military geographical institute of the Austro-Hungarian Army . The average water surface elevation at Molo Sartorio became the datum valid for the whole Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Whilst the former Yugoslavian states still use it, the Eastern Bloc successor states of Austria-Hungary like Hungary and Czechoslovakia after World War II switched to
24-650: The Adriatic Metres above the Adriatic ( Italian : Metri sopra l'Adriatico , German : Meter über Adria , Serbo-Croatian : Metara iznad Jadrana ) is the vertical datum used in Albania , Austria , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , Montenegro , North Macedonia , Serbia , and Slovenia to measure elevation , referring to the average water level of the Adriatic Sea at the Sartorio mole in
30-523: The Hochwechsel must therefore only have a slight covering of firn snow. Despite its small size, the Buckelige Welt has three different climatic zones: its southeastern part belongs to Austria's 'Illyrian climate province', while a Pannonian climate predominates in the northern edge area. The central and higher areas can be assigned to the alpine transitional climate. Metres above
36-729: The north it descends into the Vienna Basin , into which it is drained by the Pitten . To the east the Rosalia Mountains form the boundary, to the south of which the Bucklige Welt faces Oberpullendorf in the Central Burgenland Bay . To the south is the Geschriebenstein . There was no glaciation during the ice age in the area of the Bucklige Welt because of its low elevation . The summit of
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