The Sternstein Mountain is situated in the north of Upper Austria , Austria in the districts of Bad Leonfelden and Vorderweißenbach . On its north flank it also reaches into the Czech Republic . As measured by the height above sea level of its summit it is 1125 meters high.
14-531: Geologically it belongs to the Bohemian Massif and is the most eastern part of the Bohemian Forest . As the average temperature in the surroundings of the mountain over the year is less than 6 °C, it is one of the coldest regions of Upper Austria. The municipalities of Vorderweißenbach and Bad Leonfelden get their water supplies from springs arising from lower parts of the mountain. In
28-684: A microcontinent that became sandwiched between the large continental masses north and south. The result of the Variscan Orogeny was that almost all continental mass became united in a supercontinent called Pangaea . From the Permian period onward the Variscan mountain belt eroded and became partly covered by younger sediments , with the exception of Variscan massifs like the Bohemian Massif. The basement rocks and terranes of
42-433: A fold and thrust belt, the belt propagates into its foreland. New thrusts develop at the front of the belt, folding the older thrusts that have become inactive. This sequential propagation of thrusts into the foreland is the most common. Thrusts that form within the belt rather than at the thrust front are known as "out-of-sequence". In map view, fold and thrust belts are generally sinuous rather than completely linear. Where
56-603: Is a geomorphological province in Central Europe . It is a large massif stretching over most of the Czech Republic , eastern Germany , southern Poland and northern Austria . The massif encompasses a number of mittelgebirges and consists of crystalline rocks, which are older than the Permian (more than 300 million years old) and therefore deformed during the Variscan Orogeny . Parts of
70-463: The Plöckenstein (Plechý, 1,378 m) and Sternstein (1,125 m). The bedrock of acid gneiss and granite is weathered to brown soil ( cambisols ). In flat areas and valleys the groundwater had more influence on soil formation ; in such places gley soils may be found too. As in the other Variscan mittelgebirges of Central Europe, the valleys are more irregular and less pronounced as in
84-550: The Sudetes within the Bohemian Massif, Giant Mountains in particular, stand out from the ordinary mittelgebirge pattern by having up to four distinct levels of altitudinal zonation , glacial cirques , small periglacial landforms and an elevation significantly above the timber line . The Bohemian Massif is a province within the Hercynian Forest subsystem. It borders with four provinces: Western Carpathians on
98-407: The forelands adjacent to major orogens as deformation propagates outwards. Fold and thrust belts usually comprise both folds and thrust faults , commonly interrelated. They are commonly also known as thrust-and-fold belts, or simply thrust-fold belts. Fold and thrust belts are formed of a series of sub-parallel thrust sheets, separated by major thrust faults. As the total shortening increases in
112-635: The Bohemian Massif are tectonically part of three main structural zones, which differ in metamorphic degrees, lithologies and tectonic styles. This tectonic subdivision was formed during the Variscan Orogeny. Unlike other Variscan massifs in Central Europe the Bohemian Massif is not very rich in ores . The Harz Mountains further north in Germany, which are geologically part of the Rhenohercynian Zone , have more ore deposits. On
126-833: The Sternstein GmbH operates a combined funicular and chair lift with a capacity of 2850 persons/hour to get to the top of the mountain. Also cross country skiing is very popular in the area of the Sternstein. During the other seasons the mountain is a destination for hikers and mountain bikers. Furthermore, it is situated along a long-distance hiking path, the Nordwaldkammweg . 48°33′35″N 14°16′3″E / 48.55972°N 14.26750°E / 48.55972; 14.26750 Bohemian Massif The Bohemian Massif ( Czech : Česká vysočina or Český masiv , German : Böhmische Masse or Böhmisches Massiv )
140-488: The east, Eastern Alps on the south, North European Plain on the north, and Central Uplands on the west. The Bohemian Massif is further divided into six subprovinces: The landscapes in the Bohemian Massif are mostly dominated by rolling hills. North of the river Danube the topography is characterized by gentle valleys and broad, flat ridges and hilltops. The highest peaks on the Czech-Austrian borderline are
154-519: The other hand, the Bohemian massif has many quarries where granite , granodiorite and diorite are won for use as decorative building stone. 50°08′N 14°59′E / 50.133°N 14.983°E / 50.133; 14.983 Fold and thrust belt A fold and thrust belt (FTB) is a series of mountainous foothills adjacent to an orogenic belt , which forms due to contractional tectonics . Fold and thrust belts commonly form in
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#1732775612774168-702: The relatively young fold and thrust belt of the Alps . The plateaus are orographically more similar in morphology. Water gaps in the Bohemian Massif are the Wachau , the Strudengau and the valley of the Danube from Vilshofen over Passau and the Schlögener Schlinge till Aschach . The internal tectonic structure of the Bohemian Massif was formed during the Variscan Orogeny . The Variscan Orogeny
182-415: The year 1898 a 20 meter high Observation Tower was built on top of the mountain, in honor to the K.u.K. emperor Franz Joseph I . Today it is still one of the main tourist attractions of the region and can be reached from several hiking paths from all sides of the mountain. During the winter the mountain can be used for winter sports. There are four kilometers of slopes on the east flank of the mountain and
196-538: Was a phase of mountain building and accretion of terranes that resulted from the closing of the Rheic Ocean when the two paleocontinents Gondwana (in the south) and Laurussia (in the north) collided. Most of the Bohemian Massif is often supposed to belong to a terrane called Cadomia or Armorica , which also included the terranes of the Armorican Massif in western France. This supposedly formed
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