Lower Austria
Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...
. It is also known as the "land of a thousand hills" (''Land der 1000 Hügel'').
Geography
The ''Bucklige Welt'' is a hill country area on the eastern edge of the Alps. Its height varies between 375 and . 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
The Wechsel is a low mountain range in eastern Austria whose highest summit is the Hochwechsel (). It also has two other summits over 1700 m. The massif forms the border between the states of Lower Austria and Styria for about 15 km, sou ...
'' massif and in the west by the '' Semmering region''. To the north it descends into the ''
Vienna Basin
The Vienna Basin (german: Wiener Becken, cz, Vídeňská pánev, sk, Viedenská kotlina, Hungarian: ''Bécsi-medence'') is a geologically young tectonic burial basin and sedimentary basin in the seam area between the Alps, the Carpathians and t ...
'', into which it is drained by the
Pitten
Pitten is a Market Municipality in the district of Neunkirchen in the Austrian federal state of Lower Austria.
Geography
Pitten lies in the northern part of the "Bucklige Welt
The Bucklige Welt is a region in southeast Lower Austria. It is ...
. To the east the '' Rosalia Mountains'' form the boundary, to the south of which the Bucklige Welt faces
Oberpullendorf
Oberpullendorf (; hr, Gornja Pulja or ; hu, Felsőpulya) is a town in Burgenland, Austria. It is the administrative center of the district of Oberpullendorf.
Geography
Oberpullendorf is a municipality in the middle of the Burgenland. It cons ...
in the ''Central Burgenland Bay''. To the south is the ''