Snow mountain

Overview:
HEIGHT:	2,076 m above sea level A
LOCATION:	Lower Austria, Austria
MOUNTAINS:	Northern Limestone Alps
FIRST ASCENT:	Charles de l`Écluse / rather hunters/natives
FEATURES:	plateau mountain

Location and Surroundings

The Schneeberg is 2,076 m above sea level at its highest point. A. and thus the easternmost two-thousanders in the Alps and the highest peak in Lower Austria.

This mountain has several peaks between 1800 and 2076m. It has steep mountain flanks but only on three sides and forms a geological unit with the help of the Rax, the so-called Rax-Schneeberg Group.
The monastery coat of arms to the south-west is connected by a fine ridge and faces the Kaiserstein.
This exceeds the two-thousander mark with a height of 2061m and forms the subsoil for the fisherman`s hut.
One can conclude from the two peaks that the Schneeberg has a double peak.

Its location in the Lower Austrian-Styrian Limestone Alps makes it the local mountain for the Viennese.
It is also said to provide the whole city with the best drinking water in the world.
This is due to its richly structured karst plateau, which has been running through Vienna`s first mountain spring line since 1873.

When the weather is nice and visibility is clearer, the Schneeberg and its snowfields can be seen clearly from Vienna.
The Breite Ries in particular, but also the north flanks of the Schneeberg, always attract courageous ski tourists.
In addition, there is an old Schneebergbahn (100 years old) and a rack railway on this mountain, which make it possible to reach the summit in two hours from the mountain station.


Important mountain huts:

Baumgartner station: middle station of the Schneebergbahn

Berghaus Hochschneeberg

Damböckhaus (ÖTK): Winter room has only one open shelter Edelweißhütte

Fischerhütte (ÖTK) : Open winter room with heating options and emergency phone

Waldburgangerhütte

Friedrich-Haller-House

Kienthalerhütte (ÖTK)

Hengsthütte: station of the Schneebergbahn

Sparbacherhütte

Popular hikes:

Thread trail: Salamander chairlift mountain station - Fischerhütte (easy via ferrata)

Nandlgrat: Bürklehütte - Fischerhütte (easy via ferrata)

Novembergrat: Northern Grafensteig - Damböckhaus or Fischerhütte (easy via ferrata)

Herminensteig: Northern Grafensteig - Damböckhaus (easy via ferrata)

Hiking trails that circle the Schneeberg:

Southern Grafensteig: Kienthaler Hütte - stop Baumgartner (Schneebergbahn) & (hiking trail)

Northern Grafensteig: stop Baumgartner - Edelweißhütte (hiking trail)

Weichtalklamm: Weichtalhaus (Höllental) - Kienthaler Hütte (easy via ferrata)

Ferdinand-Mayr-Weg: Weichtalhaus (Höllental) - Kienthaler Hütte (hiking trail)

Upper and lower Herminensteig: Mieseltal (Schneebergdörfl) - Damböckhaus (easy via ferrata)

Emmisteig: former Baumgartnerhaus - Damböckhaus (hiking trail)

Fischersteig: former Baumgartnerhaus - mountain station Schneebergbahn (hiking trail)