!!!Leiser Berge

Leiser Mountains, Lower Austria, small, steep limestone mountains near 
Ernstbrunn, rising above the low hill area of the Weinviertel region. 
Buschberg mountain (491 m), Steinberg mountain (452 m) 
Michelberg mountain (407 m), Staatz cliffs, Falkenstein Mountains 
and Leiser Mountains are the remains of the submerged connection 
between the Alps and Carpathian Mountains. The "Leiser Berge" 
conservation area was opened in 1970, it extends from the Ernstbrunn 
game park to the Oberleiser mountain (457 m, observation point) 
and comprises 4,500 hectares. - Oberleiser mountain has been populated 
since the New Stone Age, in 2%%sup nd/%  and 1%%sup st/%  century 
B.C., Celtic settlement (oppidum) of the late La-Tène culture, 
which minted its own coins; buildings in Roman style from the middle 
of the 2%%sup nd/%  century A.D. (possibly residence of a Germanic 
vassal prince); settlement dating from late Antiquity; burial grounds 
of Christianised Slavs (10%%sup th/%  and 11%%sup th/%  centuries). - 
Romanesque church, new Gothic church building, closed down and 
demolished under the reign of Joseph II.


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