Garnet group

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Garnet group
Situation map Granatspitzgruppe.png
Great Muntanitz from the south

Great Muntanitz from the south

Highest peak Großer Muntanitz ( 3232  m above sea level )
location Salzburg and Tyrol , Austria
part of Central Eastern Alps
Classification according to AVE 39
Coordinates 47 ° 4 ′  N , 12 ° 35 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′  N , 12 ° 35 ′  E
rock Tauern window
surface 308.0 km²
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The Granatspitzgruppe is a mountain group in the central Eastern Alps . Together with the Ankogel Group , the Goldberg Group , the Glockner Group , the Schober Group , the Kreuzeck Group , the Venediger Group , the Villgratner Mountains and the Rieserferner Group , the Granatspitz Group forms the large group of the Hohe Tauern . The Granatspitzgruppe is located in Austria in the federal states of Salzburg and Tyrol . The highest peak is the Great Muntanitz , 3232  m above sea level. A.

The Granatspitzgruppe is located in the central part of the Hohe Tauern. The Felbertauernstrasse limits the group largely to the west. The group is somewhat overshadowed by its famous neighboring groups with the Großglockner and Großvenediger . The group is named after the Granatspitze , 3086  m above sea level. A.

Concept history

Parts of the Garnet Point Group from the south

The concept of an independent garnet group was introduced by Karl Hofmann in 1871 . He rejected the previous membership of the mountains of the Granatspitzgruppe to the Glocknergruppe , which was founded by Adolf Schaubach in 1845, for orographic reasons. The naming by Hofmann as the Landeck group , after the branching point of the group, the Großer Landeggkopf ( 2900  m ), could not, however, prevail within the group due to its not very significant height. As early as 1873 Gustav Demelius therefore introduced the name, which is now widely used, as the Granatkogl group, considering the Granatspitze (then Grantkogl) as the highest peak of the Tauern main ridge within the group.

Neighboring mountain groups

The Granatspitzgruppe borders on the following other mountain groups in the Alps:

Boundary

In the north, the Oberpinzgau forms the border from Mittersill down the Salzach to Uttendorf . In the east, the border from Uttendorf runs southwards through the Stubach Valley via Enzingerboden, Grünsee, along the Weißenbach and Weißsee to the Kalser Tauern (also Kalser Törl ); from there over the Dorfer lake along the Kalser Bach to the south to the confluence with the Isel near Unterpeischlach. The western border runs up the Isel to Matrei in Osttirol , further along the Tauernbach to the Felber Tauern , further over Langsee, Plattachsee, and Hintersee along the Felberache and the Felbertal to the confluence with the Salzach.

summit

All named three-thousanders (main summit in the Granatspitzgruppe):

Other important peaks in the course of the main Alpine ridge (from west to east):

glacier

The following glaciers are located in the Granatspitz Group:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of the German Alpine Club, II, 1870-71, pp. 187-189
  2. ^ Journal of the German Alpine Club, IV, 1873, pp. 41–46
  3. ^ Zlöbl: Three thousand meter peaks in East Tyrol p. 170
  4. ^ Austrian Map

literature

  • Clemens M. Hutter: The Granatspitzgruppe - From the blessing of the late development. in: Berg 2003. Alpine Club Yearbook Volume 127, Munich / Innsbruck / Bozen 2003, pp. 10–26.
  • Georg Zlöbl: The three thousand meter peaks of East Tyrol in the Hohe Tauern National Park . Verlag Grafik Zloebl, Lienz-Tristach 2007, ISBN 3-200-00428-2 .

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