Northern Lower Austria Alps
The Northern Lower Austria Alps or Lower Austria Alps is the proposed name for a subdivision of mountains in a new, and as yet unadopted, classification of the Alps. They are the northernmost section of the Alps.Geography
Administratively the range belongs to the Austrian state of Lower Austria and, marginally, to the states of Upper Austria and Styria.
The whole range is drained by the Danube river.SOIUSA classification
According to the proposal by SOIUSA, the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:
Lower Austria Alps are divided into three Alpine subsections:
- Türnitzer Alpen - SOIUSA code:II/B-27.I;
- Ybbstaler Alpen - SOIUSA code:II/B-27.II;
- Östliche Niederösterreichische Voralpen - SOIUSA code:II/B-27.III.
Summits
The chief summits of the range are:
Name | metres | feet |
Hochstadl | 1,919 | 6,294 |
Ötscher | 1,893 | 6,209 |
Großer Sulzberg | 1,400 | 4,592 |
Reisalpe | 1,399 | 4,589 |
Tirolerkogel | 1,380 | 4,526 |
Bürgeralpe | 1,002 | 4,166 |
Traisenberg | 1,002 | 4,034 |
Eibl | 1,002 | 3,287 |
Schöpfl | 893 | 2,929 |