Obersulzbachtal

Obersulzbach
Obersulzbachtal from the Berndlalm with the Great Geiger ( 3360  m above sea level )
Data
location	Pinzgau , Salzburg ; Venediger Group , Hohe Tauern
River system	Salzach
Drain over	Salzach  → Inn  → Danube  → Black Sea
source	Sulzsee (glacial lake below the Großer Geiger 3360  m above sea level ) 47 ° 7 ′ 10 ″  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 46 ″  E
Source height	2204  m above sea level A.
Mouth height	850  m above sea level A.
Height difference	1354 m
Bottom slope	82 ‰
length	16.5 km
Catchment area	approx. 81 km²
Discharge at the Sulzau A Eo gauge : 80.7 km² Location: 1.52 km above the mouth	NNQ (02/25/1987) MNQ 1961–2011 MQ 1961–2011 Mq 1961–2011 MHQ 1961–2011 HHQ (08/25/1987)	80 l / s 320 l / s 4.74 m³ / s 58.7 l / (s km²) 44.1 m³ / s 119 m³ / s
Left tributaries	Hinterjaidbach, Vorderjaidbach, Foißbach, Seebach
Reservoirs flowed through	Blausee ( ⊙ )
Communities	Neukirchen am Großvenediger
Hohe Tauern National Park

The Obersulzbachtal is a 13 km long right side valley of the upper Salzach valley in the southwest of the Austrian state of Salzburg . It is located in the Zell am See district , or more precisely: in Oberpinzgau , and belongs entirely to the Neukirchen am Großvenediger community . The Obersulzbachtal is an uninhabited alpine region and part of the Hohe Tauern National Park .

Naming

The geographical name Sulz- is closely related to Sulz, Sülze and describes either a salty body of water or gelatinous, swampy soil. The latter applies to the area around Neukirchen, and the word can also be found in the field and place name Sulzau for a village and cadastral community of Neukirchen and in the neighboring Untersulzbachtal . The name suggests that the soil was originally thick and swampy in this region.

geography

In the upper Pinzgau there is a whole series of right tributaries of the Salzach, all of which flow from the main Alpine ridge to the north and thus form valleys that run parallel to each other. The Obersulzbachtal is the westernmost of these after the Krimmler Achental . The valley is dominated by the Great Geiger ( 3360  m above sea level ) at its southern end.

Viewed upstream, the valley begins in the Sulzau at around 900 meters above sea level. Shortly before the Obersulzbach flows into the Salzach Valley, it gathers in the Blausee ( ⊙ ) and at a small dam. Above the lake, there is the hop field floor ( ⊙ ). Up to the following Berndlalm the valley has a dense forest. Above the Berndalm lies the Kampriesenalm , below it is the Gamseckfall with a height of 80 meters. Above this, the valley opens up over the Poschalm , Foißenalm and Aschamalm and reaches as far as the Upper Keesboden . The valley head is formed by the Obersulzbachkees , the glacier that descends from the Großvenediger ( 3657  m above sea level ).

Up until a few decades ago there was a mighty ice wall above the head of the valley and below the Kürsingerhütte , which was known as the Turkish tent city . The ice wall has meanwhile disappeared due to the constant glacier retreat in the Sulzbach valleys. In its place there is now the Sulzsee, a glacier lake up to 40 m deep.

The entire valley area is part of the Hohe Tauern National Park , with the valley floor itself counting as part of the outer zone and the lateral mountain heights belonging to the strictly protected core zone.

The Obersulzbach

The 16.5 km long Obersulzbach rises below the Keeskogel (in the east) or the Großer Geiger (in the south) as a drain of the Sulzsee at an altitude of 2,204 meters. After an initial steep drop, the stream runs steadily downhill. On its course through the valley it takes in some small, almost exclusively left side streams. The largest of these are (in the direction of the river) the Hinterjaidbach, the Vorderjaidbach, the Foißbach and the Seebach. A few hundred meters before it emerges from the valley, a barrier built in 1910 creates a damming up of the water. The area is under protection together with the closest Blausee in the form of three biotopes . The Obersulzbach already covers the last two kilometers of its course on the Salzachhöhe in the Sulzau area on flat terrain before it flows into the Salzach south of Neukirchen.

history

O (beres) and U (nteres) Sulzbach Th (al). Franzisco-Josephinische Landesaufnahme , sheet 30–47 Bruneck , around 1900

The Obersulzbachtal was the starting point for the first attempt to climb the Großvenediger in 1828 by Archduke Johann of Austria . The Archduke attempted the ascent under the direction of Paul Rohrgger and the hunter Christian Rieß. The project was prevented by an avalanche.

The former ownership of the Naturschutzpark Verein , the national park pioneer, which it had acquired in the Unter- and Obersulzbachtal since 1913 and which the State of Salzburg took over in 2016, is to become a wilderness area.

Development, sport and leisure

Attachments from the Sattelkar on the bottom of the Obersulzbachtal

The Obersulzbachtal is developed for tourism. The area around the Blausee is an easily accessible destination and recreational area with appropriate facilities, including a campfire site. The Hopffeldboden above is the last parking lot that can be reached by private car. An alpine path that is closed to public traffic leads further into the valley. It ends at the valley station of the material cable car to the Kürsingerhütte , located on the Upper Keesboden . After rock falls from the Sattelkar in 2006, 750 m of the alpine path were relocated to the orographic left side of the valley.

Hut taxis can continue to the Berndlalm ( 1514  m above sea level ) and the Postalm ( 1699  m above sea level ), which, like the Kampriesenalm and the Kürsingerhütte, are managed during the summer months. Other unmanaged huts or alps are the Hofrat-Keller-Hütte , the Schiedhofalm , the Poschalm and the Obersulzbachhütte .

Above the end of the valley, there are several high-alpine crossings for mountain hikers into the neighboring valleys:

• to the east over the Kürsingerhütte and the Zwischenensulzbachtaltörl into the rearmost Untersulzbachtal
• to the southeast over the main Alpine ridge below the Kleinvenediger to the Neue Prager Hütte and further into the East Tyrolean Tauern valley ( Felber Tauern )
• to the south to Obersulzbachtörl: there is a convenient transition point from the south to the north side of the Venediger group and thus also into the East Tyrolean Virgental
• to the southwest over the Krimmler Törl and the Warnsdorfer Hütte into the Krimmler Achental upstream of the Salzach

In addition, the Bettlersteig from the Berndlalm connects this valley with the Untersulzbachtal .

Web links

Commons : Obersulzbachtal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (ed.): Hydrographisches Jahrbuch von Österreich 2011. 119th volume. Vienna 2013, p. OG 121, PDF (12.9 MB) on bmlrt.gv.at (Yearbook 2011)
2. ^ Franz Hörburger : Salzburg Place Name Book , edited by Ingo Reiffenstein and Leopold Ziller, ed. from the Salzburg Society for Regional Studies, Salzburg 1982 (without ISBN)
3. ↑ Cf. Official Geographical Information System of the State of Salzburg ( SAGIS ) on [1] .
4. ↑ Official maps of the Austrian map , available online at austriamap.at . The official geographic information system of the state of Salzburg SAGIS shows a somewhat less precise representation in this regard, and the coordinates of the source differ somewhat from those of the Austrian map.
5. ↑ Biotope No .: 57025 2176; Name: Blausee
6. ↑ Biotope No .: 57025 2179; Name: Water horsetail reed W Blausee
7. ↑ Gravel floor in the river bed
8. ↑ Hohe Tauern National Park: Valleys for sale. Anton Kaindl in: Salzbuerger Nachrichten , December 23, 2014;
   In the Hohe Tauern National Park, Salzburg is using Chance for wilderness areas. On salzburg24.at , June 16, 2016.
9. ^ Bridge found under rubble , PressReader, Salzburger Nachrichten, September 5, 2014, accessed on March 10, 2017.