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The Ostrong () is a small 13 km long mountain range in the Waldviertel region in Austria. Its highest is peak is the
''Exklusiv für den Kaiser''
Standard, 5 August 2000 Today the ''Kaiserweg'' coincides with a section of the long distance trail ''Eisenwurzenweg'' which crosses the Ostrong in a north-south direction starting at Persenbeug and ending at Laimbach.
''excerpt about the Ostrong''
German) *Bernd Orfer
''Exklusiv für den Kaiser''
Standard, 5 August 2000 (German)
- pictures and description of a hike through the area (German)
The Ostrong () is a small 13 km long mountain range in the Waldviertel region in Austria. Its highest is peak is the Großer Peilstein
Grosser or Großer is the masculine nominative singular form of the German adjective "gross", meaning "big", "great", "large", "tall", and the like. It is part of many placenames, especially of mountains. It is also a surname. People with that surn ...
with an altitude of 1062 m, which makes it also the second highest mountain of the whole Waldviertel.
The Ostrong is heavily forested and spans roughly 13 km in a north-south direction with the town of Persenbeug at its southern and Laimbach at its northern end. On its west side it is bordered by the valley of the Ysper river separating it from the Weinsberger Wald mountain range. The Ostrong increases slightly in altitude from South to North with the peaks in the North being about 200 m higher than those in South. Named peaks in the southern part are the ''Großer Mühlberg'' (509 m), the ''Galleck'' (727 m) and the ''Sulzberg'' (852 m). In the center there is the ''Kaiserstein'' (935 m) and the North features the ''Großer Peilstein'' (1062 m), the highest mountain of the range with the ''Kleiner Peilstein'' (1024 m) as a side peak just next to it and the ''Katzenstein'' (963 m). The ''Großer Peilstein'' is covered by forest but its side peak ''Kleiner Peilstein'' features a small cliff with a summit cross and provides an excellent viewpoint.
The Ostrong was one of favoured landscapes of the Austrian emperor Francis I Francis I or Francis the First may refer to:
* Francesco I Gonzaga (1366–1407)
* Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414–1450), reigned 1442–1450
* Francis I of France (1494–1547), King of France, reigned 1515–1547
* Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lau ...
(1768–1835), who often hiked here when he was spending time at his nearby summer residence Schloss Luberegg. The so-called ''Kaiserweg'' ("emperor's trail") traversing the northern ridge from the ''Kaiserstein'' to the ''Großer Peilstein'' was supposedly built on Francis' behalf.Bernd Orfer''Exklusiv für den Kaiser''
Standard, 5 August 2000 Today the ''Kaiserweg'' coincides with a section of the long distance trail ''Eisenwurzenweg'' which crosses the Ostrong in a north-south direction starting at Persenbeug and ending at Laimbach.
References
*Gerhard Floßmann: ''Der Bezirk Melk - Herzstück Niederösterreichs''. Melk, 1994''excerpt about the Ostrong''
German) *Bernd Orfer
''Exklusiv für den Kaiser''
Standard, 5 August 2000 (German)
External links
- pictures and description of a hike through the area (German)
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