Manhartsberg is a low, flat-lying

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually highe ...

ridge in

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 rises to a maximum height of 537 m. It is the southeastern flank of the

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies under ...

Bohemian massif The Bohemian Massif ( cs, Česká vysočina or ''Český masiv'', german: Böhmische Masse or ''Böhmisches Massiv'') is a geomorphological province in Central Europe. It is a large massif stretching over most of the Czech Republic, eastern Ger ...

. The ridge runs from the

Thaya river The Thaya ( cs, Dyje ) is a river in Central Europe, the longest tributary to the river Morava. Its drainage basin is . It is ( with its longest source river German Thaya) long and meanders from west to east in the border area between Lower Au ...

up to the Wagram mountain range and is partly overlaid with Neogene

sediment Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles. For example, sa ...

s, primarily clays, sands and gravels of the Vienna Basin formations. This ridge continues to the northeast into

Moravia Moravia ( , also , ; cs, Morava ; german: link=yes, Mähren ; pl, Morawy ; szl, Morawa; la, Moravia) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia. The m ...

in the area near

Znojmo Znojmo (; german: Znaim) is a town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 33,000 inhabitants. Znojmo is the historical and cultural centre of southwestern Moravia and the second most populated town in the South Moravian ...

. The Manhartsberg forms the southeastern edge of the Bohemian massif and constitutes the boundary between two parts of

, the ''upper quarter above the Manhartsberg'' (

Waldviertel The (Forest Quarter; Central Bavarian: ) is the northwestern region of the northeast Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is bounded to the south by the Danube, to the southwest by Upper Austria, to the northwest and the north by the Czech Rep ...

) and the ''lower quarter under the Manhartsberg'' (

Weinviertel The ("wine quarter") or ("area below the ") is located in the northeast of Lower Austria. In the east, the borders Slovakia at the March River. In the south, it borders and , its limits being the Wagram, the Danube and the . Its western nei ...

). On its west side runs the Kamp river. The western slopes of the Manhartsberg are part of the Kamptal-Schönberg nature park, which has been recognized by

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as an international

geopark A geopark is a protected area with internationally significant geology within which sustainable development is sought and which includes tourism, conservation, education and research concerning not just geology but other relevant sciences. In 2 ...

, the Kamptal Geopark. Above the town of Maissau, rich

vein Veins are blood vessels in humans and most other animals that carry blood towards the heart. Most veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart; exceptions are the pulmonary and umbilical veins, both of which carry oxygenat ...

s of amethyst have been found in the Manhartsberg. Next to one of the highest points on the ridge are the remains of a

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

secret

radar Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the distance ('' ranging''), angle, and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, we ...

installation, whose code name was ''Zangendorf 4''. Kamp krems

References

* Klein, Eugen and Jurasky, Josef (2003) ''Botanische Wanderung von der March zum Manhartsberg: ein Bilder-Buch'' Ed. Weinviertel, Gösing/Wagram, , in German * Vogel, Alois (1985) ''Beobachtungen am Manhartsberg: Gedichte'' Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten, Austria, , in German * Rausch, Wilhelm (1990) ''Durch die Wachau zum Manhartsberg: eine Städteexkursion'' Österreichisch Arbeitskreis für Stadtgeschichtsforschung, Linz, , in German * Tollmann, Alexander (1977) ''Geologie von Österreich: Ausserzentralalpiner Anteil'' Deuticke, Vienna, , in German * Hartmann, Helga and Hartmann, Wilhelm (eds.) (2000) ''Die Höhlen Niederösterreichs'' Landesverein für Höhlenkunde in Wien und Niederösterreich, Vienna
OCLC 74914005
(Science supplements to the magazine "Die Höhle") in German

External links

"Simplified Geological Map of the Weinviertel region"
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