This study focuses on metapelites of the Polinik complex in the Kreuzeck Mts. southeast of the Tauern Window, Eastern Alps, where kyanite -staurolite -garnet gneisses host eclogites and high pressure (HP) amphibolites of the Austroalpine basement. The stable mineral assemblage is garnet -staurolite -biotite -kyanite -quartz. Estimated metamorphic conditions from conventional geothermobarometry are 654±30 • C and 0.9±0.08 GPa, and Average P-T values calculated by THERMOCALC, are 665±15 • C at 0.77±0.09 GPa. Formation of the present mineral association in gneisses is related to the exhumation (D2) stage of hosted eclogites/HP amphibolites within a lateral strike-slip zone.