Loferer and Leoganger Steinberge

Loferer and Leoganger Steinberge
Overview map of the Steinberge in the Eastern Alps
Loferer (right) and Leoganger Steinberge (left)
Highest peak	Birnhorn ( 2634  m above sea level )
location	Pinzgau , Salzburg / Kitzbühel District , Tyrol
part of	Northern Limestone Alps , Northern Alps
Classification according to	AVE  9
Coordinates	47 ° 30 '  N , 12 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '  N , 12 ° 41'  E

The Loferer and Leoganger Steinberge are a mountain group of the Alpine Club division of the Eastern Alps (AVE, No. 9). They lie between Großache (also Tiroler Achen, Kössener Ache) and Kaisergebirge in the west and the Saalach and the Steinerne Meer in the east. They extend in the Pinzgau (Zell am See district) in the northwest of the state of Salzburg and in the Kitzbühel district in the northeast of the state of Tyrol , on the border with Upper Bavaria .

Location and conceptual history

The mountains between Pillerseetal and Saalach appear rather closed from the Tyrolean side and are generally called the Steinberg there ( Steinberge generally as a mountain name for the Salzburg Kalkhochalpen ). From the Salzburg side, however, they break down into two distinct floors, which are then also more precisely named from the Saalachtal, seen from Lofer from the north and Leogang from the south. Already in the Moriggl division (Josef Moriggl 1928) as group 9 of the Eastern Alps, the Steinberge (Loferer and Leoganger) can be found , and in the newly revised joint structure of the German, Austrian and South Tyrolean Alpine Association (AVE) from 1984 they were named Loferer and Keep Leoganger Steinberge .

Traditionally, these mountains, together with the sticks from Steinplatte and Fellhorn to the north, are named after the village Waidringer Alpen in the middle of this group - according to the AVE, these mountains already belong to the Chiemgau Alps .

Boundary and neighboring mountain groups

The group is defined as follows:

• in the north Erpfendorf an der Großache - Griesbach - Waidring - Strubache (Loferbach ) - Lofer in the Saalachtal against the Chiemgau Alps  (AVE 11)
• in the east Saalach via Lofer , Sankt Martin bei Lofer , Weißbach bei Lofer to the confluence of the Leoganger Ache in Uttenhofen against the Berchtesgaden Alps  (AVE 10)
• in the south Leoganger Ache - Hochfilzen - Rothache - Pillersee-Ache (Fieberbrunner Ache) - St. Johann in Tirol to the Kitzbühel Alps  (AVE 34)
• Kössener Ache (Großache) St. Johann in Tirol via Kirchdorf iT to Erpfendorf to the Kaiser Mountains  (AVE 8)

Outline and summit

The group is divided into the following subgroups:

• Loferer Steinberge north of the Saalachtal and to Waidring and St. Ulrich am Pillersee : Großes Ochsenhorn ( 2511  m above sea level ), Mitterhorn / Großes Hinterhorn ( 2506  m above sea level ), Großes Reifhorn ( 2480  m above sea level ), Breithorn ( 2413  m above sea level )
• Leoganger Steinberge in the southeast adjoining Saalach and Leoganger Ache: with the Birnhorn ( 2634  m above sea level ) as the highest peak
  , the two levels are separated by the north-east-south-west sweeping valley line Schidergraben (Saalachtal north-west Weissbach near Lofer ) - Römerbach - Römersattel - Schüttachgraben - Hochfilzen
• Buchensteinwand ( 1462  m above sea level ), a small, free-standing massif near Hochfilzen and St. Jakob in Haus (in the Pillerseetal)
  separatedfrom the Leoganger Steinbergeby the Wiesenseetal St. Jakob-Hochfilzen, and also partly included in these and partly limestone
• Kirchbergstock (also limestone massif ) in the west, from St. Johann iT to Waidring, with Wallerberg ( 1682  m above sea level ), Kirchberg ( 1678  m above sea level ), limestone ( 1506  m above sea level )
  from Loferer and Leogang mountains is north-south it through the Pillerseetal Waidring - Fieberbrunn separated

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  Loferer Steinberge , from St. Ulrich aP

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  Leoganger Steinberge , from the south

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  Buchensteinwand and western edge of the Kirchbergstock , view from the Steinplatte through the Pillerseetal to the south

tourism

Paths and huts

• Schmidt-Zabierow-Hütte (1963 m, DAV) in the Loferer Steinberge
• Passauer Hütte (2057 m, DAV) in the Leoganger Steinberge.

Ascent is possible from all of the mentioned valley locations, the whole group is well developed. Numerous climbing tours are also described.

Winter sports

The Buchensteinwand is a small ski area, the Pillersee mountain railway . In the valley town of Hochfilzen - in combination with a military training area for the armed forces - there is the cross-country skiing and biathlon center Hochfilzen , a world cup and world championship location.

Natural sights

• Loferer Schacht near Lofer, 650 m deep fall shaft and spacious horizontal system, largest cave in the Loferer Steinberge
• Lamprechtsofen : Cave in the Leoganger Steinberge near Weißbach near Lofer , 14,650 m long and 1000 m deep (there also Lamprechtsofen cave restaurant of the DAV)
• Prax ice cave near Maria Kirchental , through cave in the black wall
• Vorderkaserklamm northeast of the Römersattels
• Teufelsklamm (Loferer Steinberge)
• Pillersee and Öfenschlucht of the Grieselbach (Haselbach, Stubache)

literature

• Adi Stocker: Loferer and Leoganger Steinberge. Panico Alpinverlag, Köngen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95611-057-3 .
• Adi Stocker, Nikolaus Stockklauser: Loferer and Leoganger Steinberge . 3. Edition. Bergverlag Rother, 1991, ISBN 978-3-7633-1249-8 ( digitized - path and climbing guide).
• Sepp Brandl: Berchtesgaden and Chiemgau Alps: Kaiser Mountains, Loferer and Leoganger Steinberge, Dientner Mountains . 50 selected ski tours between Kufstein and Salzburg, Chiemgau and Pinzgau. 3. Edition. Bergverlag Rother, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7633-5906-6 .
• Toni Dürnberger: Loferer and Leoganger Steinberge. A guide for valleys, huts and mountains with 19 pictures, 3 ascent sketches and an overview map 1: 100,000; Series: Northern Limestone Alps. 2nd Edition. Bergverlag Rother, 1976, ISBN 3-7633-1221-8 (Alpine Club Guide).

Cards:

• AV card 9 Loferer and Leoganger Steinberge 1: 25,000
• Austrian map (ÖK) 1: 50,000, sheets 91  Sankt Johann in Tirol , 92  Lofer , 122  Kitzbühel , 123  Zell am See , 124  Saalfelden

Web links

Commons : Loferer Steinberge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Leoganger Steinberge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

Entry on Loferer and Leoganger Steinberge in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

1. ↑ Josef Moriggl: Guide for Alpine Hikers in the Eastern Alps . With refuge directory. Ed .: Main Committee of the D. u. Ö. Alpine Club . 2nd Edition. Lindauer, Munich 1928 (Class-8 °, paperback, 456 pages - Moriggl classification , forerunner of today's Alpine Club classification).
2. ↑ Franz Graßler : Alpine Association Division of the Eastern Alps (AVE) . Alpine Club Yearbook. In: DAV , OeAV , AVS (ed.): Berg '84 . tape 108 , 1984, pp. 215-224 . Quoted from Mathias Zehring: Alpine club division of the Eastern Alps. In: bergalbum.de. Retrieved August 26, 2009 . 
3. ↑ Pillersee mountain railway