Salzkammergut mountains

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Salzkammergut mountains
Gamsfeld vom Hornspitz, bottom left is the town of Russbach

Gamsfeld vom Hornspitz, bottom left is the town of Russbach

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 Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '  N , 13 ° 35'  E
surface 2,173.9 km²
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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 .

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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:

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

Osterhorn group from Faistenau
Gennerhorn ( 1735  m ), Gruberhorn ( 1732  m ) and Regenspitz ( 1675  m ) from the northwest
Genneralm above Osterhorn ( 1746  m , in the background), in front of it Hoher Zinken 1764  m

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:

Summit cross on the 1060 meter high pre-summit of the Drachenwand . Right of the summit cross the Schafberg and left of it the Höllengebirge
According to AVE, the Aussee Mountains are counted among other mountain groups:

List of peaks by Schartenhöhe

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No. summit Height (m) Notch height (m) Reference chart
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:

Long-distance / long-distance hiking trails

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salzkammergut Mountains . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 14, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 246.

Web links

Commons : Salzkammergut Mountains  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Osterhorngruppe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files