Gailtal Alps
| Gailtal Alps | |
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.png) The location of the group within the Alps is marked in red. |
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 Great sand tip from the north |
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| Highest peak | Great sand tip ( 2770 m above sea level ) |
| location | Carinthia and Tyrol , Austria |
| part of | Southern Eastern Alps |
| Classification according to | AVE 56 |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 42 ' N , 13 ° 10' E |
| rock | Drauzug ( Northern Limestone Alps ) |
| surface | 1,318.1 km² |
The Gailtal Alps are a mountain group of the Southern Eastern Alps . They run as a chain of mountains between the Drava and Gail valleys in southern Carinthia and East Tyrol in Austria . The western half of the Gailtal Alps, with their rugged peaks made of main dolomite, is known as the Lienz Dolomites and is 2770 m above sea level. A. high Großer Sandspitze the highest point in the Gailtal Alps. From a geological point of view, the Gailtal Alps together with the North Karawanken form the Drauzug , a part of the Northern Limestone Alps that has remained behind as a result of the folding of the Alps .
Concept history
The mountain range was already described in 1845 by Adolf Schaubach in his standard work The German Alps as the Gailthaler Alps in their current boundaries. The name Lienzer Dolomiten for the part west of the Gailbergsattel is more recent and was introduced in 1885 by the Section Lienz of the German and Austrian Alpine Club and was able to establish itself quickly.
geography
The 100 km long, narrow mountain range in the west lies between Gail in the south and Drau in the north. In a furrow between the Gailtal Alps and the Goldeck lies the Weißensee , Austria's highest bathing lake. The Drauzug is divided in west-east direction in five mountain ranges separated by transverse valleys and a longitudinal valley:
- Lienz Dolomites (approx. 40 km) from Kartitscher Sattel (east of Sillian ) to Gailbergsattel near Oberdrauburg (highest peaks Große Sandspitze 2770 m and Spitzkofel 2718 m , both south of Lienz )
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Gailtal Alps in the narrower sense (about 65 km):
- Reisskofel group between Gailberg and Kreuzbergsattel near Greifenburg ( Reisskofel 2371 m , Jauken 2275 m )
- Latschur group between the Weißensee and the Drauknie near Sachsenburg (Latschur 2236 m )
- Spitzegelgruppe southeast of the Weißensee between Kreuzberg and Bleiberger Graben (Spitzegel 2119 m )
- Dobratsch ( Villacher Alpe , 2166 m ) as the eastern foothills of the Gailtal Alps with the nature reserve Die Schütt .
Within the Drauzug there are only three significantly populated areas: Bleiberg between the Dobratsch and Spitzegel groups, which lived for centuries from lead extraction and today from thermal tourism , as well as the Stockenboier Graben and the Gitschtal -Weißensee area, both of which are used by tourism (summer and winter) Life.
Neighboring mountain groups
According to the AVE :
- North: Ankogel Group , Kreuzeck Group , Schober Group
- Northwest: Villgraten Mountains
- South: Carnic main ridge , Karawanken
- East: Gurktal Alps
traffic
Transitions (from east to west):
- Windy height
- Kreuzbergsattel
- Gailbergsattel
- Kartitscher Sattel (between the Lienz Dolomites and the Carnic Alps)
geology
Most of the Gailtal Alps are part of the Drauzug . This lies north of the Periadriatic Seam and therefore does not belong geologically to the Southern Alps , but to the southern edge of the Eastern Alps and is a southern part of those Eastern Alpine limestone cover systems that were pushed north over the main Alpine ridge in the course of the Alpine folding and form the Northern Limestone Alps there . The opinion that the Gailtal Alps and the North Karawanken are part of the Drauzug goes back to Leopold Kober in 1938.
However, the Goldeck massif on the northeastern edge is not part of the Drauzug; it is the south-eastern continuation of the crystalline rocks of the Kreuzeck group . While in the western half the craggy peaks of the Lienz Dolomites are formed from the main dolomite up to 2000 meters thick , limestone and dolomites of the Wetterstein formation near the highest mountains ( Jauken , Reisskofel , Spitzegel , Dobratsch ) form peaks in the eastern part .
Tourist development
The Gailtaler Höhenweg runs through the entire length of the Gailtal Alps.
| Surname | status | height |
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| Bliessalm | Private | |
| Dobratsch summit house | PES section Villach | 2143 m |
| Dolomite hut | Private | 1616 m |
| ET Compton Hut | ÖAV section Austria | 1650 m |
| Goldeckhütte | ÖAV section Spittal an der Drau | 1945 m |
| Hochstadelhaus | ÖTK section Oberdrauburg | 1780 m |
| Karlsbader Hut | DAV section Karlsbad | 2260 m |
| Kerschbaumeralm shelter | ÖTK section Lienz | 1902 m |
| Linderhütte | ÖTK section Lienz | 2683 m |
| Wasteland hut | Private | |
| Reisskofel bivouac | ÖAV section Obergailtal-Lesachtal | 1799 m |
| Weißbriacher Hut | PES section Hermagor | 1567 m |
literature
- Rudolf Gritsch: Little guide through the Gailtal Alps. Bergverlag Rother , Munich 1980.
- Hubert Peterka , Willi End : Alpine Club Guide Lienzer Dolomiten , Bergverlag Rother. Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7633-1243-9
Web links
- Geological section through the Drauzug
- Entry on Gailtal Alps in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Geological Federal Institute / RockyAustria: Limestone Alps and Drauzug
- Gailtal Alps on summitpost.org (English)
- Official TVB website of the Lienz Dolomites region
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Schaubach: The German Alps , Volume I, Jena 1845, pp. 174–176
- ^ Journal of the German and Austrian Alpine Club , 1899, p. 279.
- ^ Hubert Trimmel: Mountain group structure for the Austrian cave directory . Ed .: Association of Austrian Speleologists. Vienna 1962.
- ^ Leopold Kober: Construction and emergence of the Alps . 1st edition. Springer, Vienna 1938 (2nd edition. Deuticke, Vienna 1955.).
- ^ Hans Peter Schönlaub : The Goldeck Group . In: Geologische Bundesanstalt (Ed.): The Geological Structure of Austria , Vienna 1980, pp. 356–358.
- ↑ Gailtal Alps , alpenverein.at
