The Schneealpe or Schneealm is a limestone

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in the

Northern Limestone Alps The Northern Limestone Alps (), also called the Northern Calcareous Alps, are the ranges of the Eastern Alps north of the Central Eastern Alps located in Austria and the adjacent Bavarian lands of southeastern Germany. The distinction from the ...

on the

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n border. Its highest point is the Windberg at 1,903 metres above sea level. Other peaks are the ''Ameisbühel'' (also Amaißbichl, 1,828 m, in the east, on the Styrian-Lower Austrian border), the ''Schönhaltereck'' (1,860 m, west of the Windberg) and the ''Donnerwand'' (1,799 m, in the northwest). Its valley settlements are Hinternaßwald in the northeast, Altenberg an der Rax in the east, Kapellen and

Neuberg an der Mürz Neuberg an der Mürz is a municipality in the district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag in the Austrian state of Styria. Geography Neuberg lies in the upper valley of the Mürz at the foot of the Schneealpe northwest of Mürzzuschlag. History Otto, Duk ...

in the south,

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and Frein an der Mürz in the west. The heavily wooded mountains and hills north of the Schneealpe are uninhabited. The Schneealpen House and several alm huts are located the high plateau at a height of about 1,780 metres. On the western perimeter of the plateau on the Hinteralm is another Alpine Club hut, the Hinteralm House. In the northern area is the source region of the Kalte

Mürz The Mürz () is a river in Styria, Austria, with a length of . Its drainage basin is . The Mürz begins at the confluence of the and near Kaltenbach, Neuberg and the border to Lower Austria. It passes through Mürzzuschlag. Along its course are ...

. The Schneealpen area belongs, together with the Rax and the Schneeberg, to the catchment area of the First Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline (''I. Wiener Hochquellenwasserleitung''). Drinking water is led through the Schneealpen Tunnel, built between 1965 and 1968 by the city of Vienna, to Hinternaßwald.

Mountain huts

* Schneealpen House (''Schneealpenhaus'') * Michlbauer Hut * Lurgbauer Hut * Neuberger Hut (self-catering hut; operator: Naturfreunde) * Hinteralmhaus (Wiener-Lehrer Hut, self-catering hut; operator:

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Hütten.
' Austrian Alpine Club, Wiener Lehrer Branch;

Hinteralmhaus .
' im-muerztal.at.

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