Salzkammergut mountains
Salzkammergut mountains | |
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Gamsfeld vom Hornspitz, bottom left is the town of Russbach |
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Highest peak | Gamsfeld ( 2027 m above sea level ) |
location | Upper Austria and Salzburg , Austria |
part of | Northern Limestone Alps |
Classification according to | AVE 17a |
Coordinates | 47 ° 42 ' N , 13 ° 35' E |
surface | 2,173.9 km² |
The Salzkammergut Mountains are a mountain group of the Northern Limestone Alps in the Eastern Alps , but also include the pre-Alpine peaks of the flysch zone on the northern edge . The mountains are located entirely in Austria . The mountains around the salt towns Bad Ischl and Hallstadt lie v. a. in the federal state of Upper Austria , at the edge the mountains also extend into the state of Salzburg . Historically, the Salzburg share is likely to be better when it comes to the very similar, widely used term Osterhorngruppe .
To the subject
The definition and demarcation of the Salzkammergut Mountains as a mountain group follows the Alpine Association classification of the Eastern Alps (AVE) from 1984. In other states of the Alpine region or outside, as well as with other specialist and interest groups, other classifications of the Alps and demarcations of subgroups are sometimes used. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 1888 still speaks of the Salzkammergut Alps and includes the Tennengebirge , a Dachstein group with the Kammergebirge , Sengsengebirge and the Pyhrgas . This late romantic division is no longer used today. The Salzkammergut is originally the old Habsburg estate, including the mountains around the Hallstatt and Ischl salt sites, as an economic counterpoint to the Salzburg estate around the salt sites on the Dürrnberg.
Boundary
In the north, the Alpine foothills form the border between the exit of the Salzach into the Alpine foothills near Salzburg and the exit of the Traun into the Alpine foothills near Gmunden . The border in the east is formed by the Traun from the Traunsee upstream to the Hallstätter See . In the south, the border runs from Lake Hallstatt along the Gosaubach to Gosau and the Gschütt Pass . From there it goes down along the Rußbach to the Lammer and the confluence with the Salzach near Golling . In the west the border runs along the Salzach from the confluence of the Lammer downstream to Salzburg. (The archbishop's salt town Hallein in its eastern part to the Salzkammergut, i.e. to the extended estate to include the salt warehouses of Bad Ischl and Hallstatt, does not seem historically comprehensible.)
Neighboring mountain groups
The Salzkammergut Mountains border on the following other mountain groups in the Alps:
- Berchtesgaden Alps (in the west)
- Tennengebirge (in the south)
- Dachstein Mountains (in the south)
- Dead Mountains (in the southeast)
- Upper Austrian Pre-Alps (in the east)
In the north, the Salzkammergut Mountains border the Alpine foothills , the Gschütt Pass connects the Salzkammergut Mountains with the Dachstein Group.
Mountain groups and peaks
The Salzkammergut Mountains are divided into two areas, which are not orographically defined but politically:
- Salzkammergut Pre-Alps i. e. S. (Upper Austrian spatial planning zone), as part of the Upper Austrian Prealps in the regional sense
- Salzburg foothills , the eastern part of the Osterhorn group and its foothills to the foothills of the Alps, to the borders of the Salzburg basin
The state border roughly follows the ridge lines Kolomannsberg - northern edge of the Almkogel group - right through the Schafberg group - western part of the Osterhorn group and then Gosaukamm to the Dachstein.
The mountain group is divided into:
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Osterhorn group between Lammer , Salzach , Postalm , Wolfgangsee :
- Egelsehörndl ( 1782 m )
- High tines ( 1764 m )
- Osterhorn ( 1748 m )
- Faistenauer Schafberg ( 1559 m )
- Schmittenstein ( 1695 m )
- Wieserhörndl ( 1567 m )
- Zwölferhorn ( 1522 m )
- Sparber ( 1502 m )
- Schwarzenberg ( 1334 m )
- Gaisberg ( 1287 m )
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Gamsfeld group between Traun , Postalm and Lammer :
- Gamsfeld ( 2027 m ), the highest mountain in the entire group
- Rinnkogel ( 1822 m )
- Braunedlkogel ( 1894 m )
- Kater Mountains (Rosskopf 1659 m )
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Schafberg group between Wolfgangsee, Attersee , Mondsee and Fuschlsee:
- Schafberg ( 1782 m )
- Leonsberg ( 1745 m )
- Schober ( 1328 m ) and Drachenwand ( 1176 m )
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Hell Mountains
- Großer Höllkogel ( 1862 m )
- Brunnkogel ( 1708 m )
- Traunsee-Attersee Mountains ( Traun and Atterseer Flysch Mountains ) , Flysch zone between Traunsee and Attersee:
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Mondsee Flysch Mountains
- Attersee-Mondsee mountains between Attersee and Mondsee: Hochplett 1134 m , Kulmspitze 1095 m and Roßmoos 1015 m
- Kolomannsberg ( 1114 m ) between Mondsee and Wallersee
- According to AVE, the Aussee Mountains are counted among other mountain groups:
- Sarstein ( 1975 m ), striking floor near Bad Aussee to the Dachstein Mountains (AVE No. 14, Dachstein Group i. W. S.)
- Sandling ( 1717 m ), the Altaussee salt mountain as a foothill to the Dead Mountains (AVE No. 15)
List of peaks by Schartenhöhe
No. | summit | Height (m) | Notch height (m) | Reference chart |
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1. | Great Höllkogel | 1862 | 1294 | Stehrerau 568 m |
2. | Schafberg | 1782 | 1178 | Scharflinger height 604 m |
3. | Gamsfeld | 2027 | 1070 | Pass Gschütt 957 m |
4th | Leonsberg (Zimnitz) | 1745 | 973 | Moosalm 772 m |
5. | Black Mountain | 1584 | 720 | Plaster builder 864 m |
6th | Schwarzenberg | 1334 | 668 | Hinterwinkl 666 m |
7th | Egelseohrndl | 1781 | 597 | Lienbachhof 1185 m |
8th. | Gaisberg | 1293 | 592 | Hinterschroffenau 701 m |
9. | Rinnkogel | 1822 | 578 | Scharte to the Kleiner Schoberstein 1245 m |
10. | Hochplettspitz | 1134 | 569 | Haarberg 565 m |
11. | Schober | 1328 | 568 | Einsiedl 760 m |
12. | Savers | 1502 | 522 | Schartenalm 980 m |
13. | Breitenberg | 1412 | 515 | Fachbergsattel 897 m |
14th | Faistenauer Schafberg | 1559 | 514 | Schafbachalm 1045 m |
15th | Filbling | 1307 | 485 | Perfalleck 822 m |
16. | Kolomansberg | 1114 | 478 | Bärental 636 m |
tourism
The summit height of the Salzkammergut mountains is comparatively modest. With the exception of one summit, the 2000 meter mark is not reached. The mountains lie in the region of the Northern Limestone Alps, the Salzkammergut , with the greatest number of lakes . The diversity of the landscape as well as the distant view of the higher neighboring mountain groups make the Salzkammergut mountains an ideal area for mountain hikers.
Huts
The following Alpine Club huts are located in the Salzkammergut Mountains:
- Braunauer Hütte near St. Gilgen
- Goiserer Hut near Bad Goisern
- Hochleckenhaus near Taferlklause
- Kranabethhütte near Ebensee
- Rieder hut on the Feuerkogel / Ebensee
- Schoberhütte near Fuschl (unmanaged emergency accommodation)
Long-distance / long-distance hiking trails
- The Via Alpina , a cross-border long-distance hiking trail with five partial trails through the entire Alps, runs through the Salzkammergut mountains in one stage. The violet path of Via Alpina runs with stage A32 from Bad Goisern to Gosau via the Goisererhütte.
- The long-distance hiking trail 04 Voralpenweg crosses the Salzkammergut Mountains on the Traunsee - Feuerkogel - Höllengebirge - Weißenbach and Burgau am Attersee - Schafberg - Wolfgangsee - Fuschlsee - Faistenau - Ebenau - Gaisberg - Salzburg route .
- The Rupertiweg (long-distance hiking trail 10) touches the Salzkammergut Mountains on the Haunsberg .
- The Via Nova runs over Mondsee and ends in Sankt Wolfgang .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salzkammergut Mountains . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 14, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 246.