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Silberbergstraße

1480.1 m · net rise 173.3 m · total ascent 174.2 m · overall 11.7% · evidence quality B (good) · Übelbach · Steiermark ·

Shape: sustained — 28% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 407 m.

Found purely from mapping and LiDAR data, and not yet matched against books, race records or lists — it may be well known to locals under a name we've never heard. It was cross-checked against the GIP.at road network, OpenStreetMap and a second terrain model, but a discovery can still be an artifact of the terrain model or the map. Treat it as a well-evidenced hypothesis until someone has ridden it. If you know this road, tell us what you found — photographs, corrections and local knowledge all welcome; the map links below let you scout it first.

≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 38% of this route — detected by comparing the surface model (DSM, treetops and rooftops) against the terrain model (DTM, bare ground). Under cover the bare-ground model is built from fewer laser returns, so metre-scale readings can wobble; maxima whose window sits in a covered zone are marked ≈ below — less certain — the flag does not say whether the true value is higher or lower. Longer windows average over more clean ground and are steadier.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)≈22%624–626 munder overhead cover terrain reads 50.0% at 365–367 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈20%624–627 munder overhead cover terrain reads 47.8% at 364–367 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
5 m≈16%675–680 munder overhead cover terrain reads 45.6% at 363–368 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
10 m≈16%676–686 munder overhead cover terrain reads 38.3% at 359–369 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
20 m≈15.0%121–141 munder overhead cover terrain reads 27.4% at 355–375 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
25 m≈14.7%117–142 munder overhead cover terrain reads 24.1% at 355–380 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
50 m≈14.2%119–169 munder overhead cover terrain reads 17.7% at 355–405 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
100 m≈13.7%73–173 munder overhead cover terrain reads 15.1% at 355–455 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded

may continue beyond end Extent detection suggests reviewing where this climb starts/ends.

Map

Check this route yourself: Google Maps route via their router · Street View at the base where coverage exists · geojson.io our exact measured line · OpenTopoMap

This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.

Surface: GIP.at, Austria's official transport graph records no surface for this road; the map may tell you more.

Access: Listed 2026-09-15 (re-measured on the trimmed extent): with the tail dog-leg cut off (a driveway, Peter's ruling of 2026-09-15), the steepest 25 m reads 14.7 % (it was published at 14.7 %), below the ranking door — kept as a listed page with the re-measured profile. The trim also takes the road under the 1,500 m mark of the endurance door it was ranked through (1,511 → 1,480 m).

Measured, not vetted. This page records what the laser record shows about the road's shape — nothing more. Nobody has necessarily ridden or inspected this road for the survey, and a page here is not a recommendation and no guarantee that the road is open, surfaced, rideable or safe. Gates, private sections, missing rights of way and hazards do not show up in elevation data. Check access and conditions on the ground and make your own judgment.

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Route colour = gradient over a 25 m window: <10% 10–20% 20–25% ≥25%

  © OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap · aerial imagery © basemap.at (CC BY 4.0)

Silberbergstraße LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

The map, profile and gradient chart share one position — move your pointer over them and the marker follows. Colors are the gradient bands; the shaded span is the steepest 25 m. Any 25 m figure is good to about a point either way (why).

Silberbergstraße elevation profile
Silberbergstraße rolling gradient profile
 

Measurement card

ElevationBEV ALS DTM 1 m — ALS DTM Höhenraster 1 m (Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen with the Länder), EPSG:3035
Resolution / CRS1.0 m grid, EPSG:3035; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
TilesE4717-N2691, E4717-N2692
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract), snapshot 2026-09-10T20:21:06Z
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: canopy or structure, no bench excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run retro-260915-dogleg-all, calculated 2026-09-15

Provenance

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  "analysis_version": "0.1.0",
  "sample_interval_m": 1.0,
  "interpolation": "bilinear",
  "smoothing": "none",
  "gradient_windows_m": [
    5.0,
    10.0,
    20.0,
    25.0,
    50.0,
    100.0
  ],
  "diagnostic_windows_m": [
    2.0,
    3.0
  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:3035",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/at/bev-als_dtm_E4717-N2691.tif",
    "data/cache/at/bev-als_dtm_E4717-N2692.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-15T22:32:18+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/austria-2026-09-11.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "2026-09-10T20:21:06Z",
  "run_id": "retro-260915-dogleg-all",
  "elevation_provider": "BEV ALS DTM 1 m",
  "elevation_licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) \u2014 \u00a9 BEV / L\u00e4nder, data.gv.at",
  "elevation_dataset": "ALS DTM H\u00f6henraster 1 m (Bundesamt f\u00fcr Eich- und Vermessungswesen with the L\u00e4nder), EPSG:3035",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
    "E4717-N2691",
    "E4717-N2692"
  ],
  "elevation_blocks": [
    "N2650000E4700000@2022-09-15"
  ],
  "bev_dsm_release": {
    "N2650000E4700000": "20220915"
  },
  "route_cut_m": 1480.1,
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "structure_own_ways": "none \u2014 the route carried no way list; own decks unmasked",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}