Gaistal
| Gaistal | |||
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 Gaistal with Hoher Munde from the Hochfeldernalm in an easterly direction. |
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| Compass direction | west | east | |
| Pass height | 1585 m above sea level A. | ||
| state | Tyrol | ||
| Watershed | Geissbach → Loisach | Leutascher Ache → Isar | |
| Valley locations | Ehrwald | Leutasch | |
| expansion | trail | ||
| Mountains | Northern Limestone Alps | ||
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| Ø pitch | % (591 m /? Km) | % (449 m /? Km) | |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 22 '34 " N , 10 ° 58' 5" E | ||
The Gaistal is located in Tyrol ( Austria ) and separates the Wetterstein Mountains in the north from the Mieminger Mountains in the south.
It begins about 5 km east of Ehrwald and extends into the Leutasch . The valley, which is closed to traffic, is flanked on both sides by a number of well-known mountains ( Hohe Munde , Hochwanner , Predigtstuhl , Hochplattig , Ehrwalder Sonnenspitze and others). A large parking lot for hikers on the eastern edge of the Gaistal can be reached by car from Leutasch via a toll road.
The upper, western end of the valley is in the Ehrwalder municipality area (Ehrwalder Sattel). Here is the Igelsee , near which the Leutascher Ache rises, which flows through the entire valley to the east in the direction of Leutasch and finally flows into the Isar in Mittenwald . To the east of the Igelsee there is a section in the Mieming and Wildermieming municipal areas (both places themselves are located south of the Mieming chain, towards the Inn valley). Further east, the Gaistal belongs to the municipality of Leutasch.
The Gaistal is marketed as an “alpine paradise” for tourists: from Leutasch there are 12 alpine pastures, high alpine pastures and shelters within a day's hike. The Gaistal was described in literary terms by the local writer Ludwig Ganghofer , for example in the novel Das Schweigen im Walde from 1899. Ganghofer's hunting lodge in the Gaistal has been preserved to this day and is in the immediate vicinity of the Tillfußalm . It was there that Ganghofer wrote numerous novels.
The Gaistal is a popular mountain bike and hiking area .
history
The Gaistal is already mentioned in the years 1073-1078 in a record of the Hochstift Freising about the border in the Werdenfelser Land as "Geizzital" .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Ganghofer's novel “The Silence in the Forest” in the Gutenberg project
- ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 1: Up to the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 217-218, no. 245 .