Dachstein Mountains

Dachstein Mountains
	Representation of the mountains & massif.
Highest peak	High Dachstein ( 2995 m above sea level )
location	Upper Austria , Styria , Salzburg , Austria
part of	Northern Limestone Alps
Classification according to	AVE 14
Coordinates	47 ° 31 ' N , 13 ° 40' E Coordinates: 47 ° 31 ' N , 13 ° 40' E
	Aerial view of the Dachstein from approx. 3600 m with Niederer Dachstein (left) and Gjaidstein (in the background)

The Dachstein Mountains are a mountain group of the Alps , as a collective name of the Alpine Club division of the Eastern Alps (AVE No. 14).

It includes:

the actual Dachstein massif with the Hohe Dachstein ( 2995 m above sea level ) as the main summit,
the Grimming ( 2351 m above sea level ) in the east to the upper Styrian Ennstal ,
the Sarstein ( 1975 m above sea level ) in the north, on the other bank of the Traun .

Boundary

The Dachstein Mountains are limited as follows:

the Dead Mountains , the line separates St. Agatha on Lake Hallstatt - Pötschenhöhe - Bad Aussee - Kainischtraun - Bad Mitterndorf - Klachau - Grimming Bach to Enns
the Rottenmanner and Wölzer Tauern and the Niedere Tauern in the south is the way of Enns, about of Untergrimming , to the confluence of the White creek in Haus im Ennstal the border
to the Rossbrand of the Salzburg Slate Alps in the southwest of Weißenbach - Ramsaubach - Schildlehenbach - Kalte Mandling - Warm Mandling - Marcheggsattel - Fritzbach - Linbach - Neubach - Lungötz in Lammertal
in the west the Lammertal forms the border to the Tennengebirge
to the Salzkammergut mountains in the northwest the line Rußbach - Pass Gschütt - Gosaubach - Hallstätter See - St. Agatha

structure

The two separate mountains, Grimming and Sarstein , were added to the Dachstein Stock in the Moriggl division of 1924 , although both are strongly separated from a hydrographic and orographic point of view, for purely organizational reasons, because both are broken pieces of the fairly uniform Dachstein limestone mass .

The dividing lines are:

Hallstättersee and Koppentraun to Sarstein,
from Bad Mitterndorf the Salzabach with the Salzastausee to the Grimming - here the Dachstein Glacier has carved a wide valley that drains the Kainischtraun to the north and the Grimmingbach to the south, and which represents the natural landscape separation from the Dead Mountains. In between, the Salza strangely crosses the valley and forms a narrow breakthrough (Salzaschlucht) between Grimming and Kemet Mountains , the eastern edge of the Dachstein plateau.

Web links

Commons : Dachstein Mountains - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Alpine association division of the Eastern Alps

[1] Alpine association division of the Eastern Alps