Pyramidenkogel

Pyramidenkogel is an 851-metre-excessive mountain in Carinthia, Austria. It is placed to the south of the Worthersee and near the metropolis of Maria Wörth, in a place that could be a boundary among speakers of German and Slovenian. In close by Slovenia the mountain is known as Jedvovca. The mountain has been a visitor appeal for the reason that at the least the overdue 19th century. The view from its top is cited in Karl Baedeker's 1879 The Eastern Alps. Another mountain named Pyramidenkogel can be found in Austrian Totes Gebirge mountain variety. Located south-east of the Almsee, its peak is 1961 m. A wood statement platform had been built in 1950, as become a pass to consider the dead of World War I and World War II and "victims of the mountains."

The move turned into consecrated on 20 August 1950. An annual "Trausteinmesse," a special Mass, is well known at the end of summer. A fifty four-metre-tall remark and broadcasting tower of steel and concrete, the Pyramidenkogel Tower, become built between 1966 and 1968 and turned into a famous "futuristic" traveller attraction, in step with the Rough Guide to Austria; Lonely Planet calls it "avant-garde." In 2008, the closing summer season earlier than creation of a brand new edifice, the tower welcomed the five-millionth traveler.