!!!Schneeberg

Schneeberg Mountain, highest mountain in Lower Austria, massif in the 
Northern Limestone Alps, one of Vienna´s most popular day-trip 
destinations, on clear days visible from the hills surrounding Vienna. 
Most easterly 2,000 m-high mountain of the Alps, separated by the  
Hoellental Gorge from the  Rax Mountain; Klosterwappen (2,076 m) 
and Kaiserstein (2,061 m) summits; since 1897 cog railway from 
Puchberg am Schneeberg (alt. 585 m) to the Hoch-Schneeberg 
station (alt. 1,796 m). Elisabethkirchlein chapel, 
Hoch-Schneeberg mountain hotel; mountain refuges: Fischerhuette (alt. 
2,061 m, highest mountain refuge in Lower Austria), Damboeckhaus 
(alt. 1,888 m), Sparbacherhuette (alt. 1,248 m). Source 
region of the 1%%sup st/%  Vienna Spring Water Supply System, 
landscape protection area.


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