Goldberg Group

Goldberg Group
Location of the Goldberg group in Austria
Hocharn from the south
Highest peak	Hocharn ( 3254  m above sea level )
location	Carinthia and Salzburg , Austria
part of	Central Eastern Alps
Classification according to	AVE  42
Coordinates	47 ° 4 '  N , 12 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 4 '  N , 12 ° 56'  E
rock	Tauern window and old crystal ( Sadnig group )
surface	731.3 km²

The Goldberg Group is a mountain group in the central Eastern Alps . The Goldberg Group is located in Austria in the federal states of Salzburg and Carinthia . The highest peak is the Hocharn , 3254  m above sea level. A. Other well-known peaks are the Hohe Sonnblick with the observatory at 3106  m above sea level. A. Höhe and the Schareck at 3123  m above sea level. A.

The Goldberg Group is located in the eastern half of the Hohe Tauern . In the west of the group is the Grossglockner High Alpine Road , in the east of the group is the Tauern Railway .

Concept history

The concept and name of the Goldberg Group was introduced in 1845 by Adolf Schaubach in his standard work The German Alps , the Korntauern ( 2459  m ) served as the eastern border . Schaubach chose the name after the importance of mining in the mountain group:

“We choose this name [Goldberggruppe] because of the wealth of gold that made this group an Eldorado , especially in earlier times , and gold mining is still a source of income; here are the highest mines in Germany [sic!] and next to those on Monterosa the highest in Europe. "

- Adolf Schaubach : The German Alps, Volume I, Jena 1845, p. 78

In 1864 Anton von Ruthner introduced the eastern demarcation with the somewhat lower Mallnitz Tauern ( 2414  m ), which is still used today, in his work From the Chain of the Hohe Tauern . This reduced the mountain range from 800 km² to 731 km².

Boundary

The delimitation of the Goldberg Group is formed as follows according to the Alpine Club division of the Eastern Alps , where it represents Group No. 42:

• Salzach from Taxenbach to the confluence with the Gasteiner Ache
• Gasteiner Ache ( Gasteiner Tal ) - Naßfeld - Niederer Tauern - Mallnitzbach to the confluence with the Möll
• Mölltal (first east-southeast to Winklern , then northwards) to Heiligenblut - Guttalbach - Tauernbach - Hochtor - Seidlwinkltal - Raurisertal - Taxenbach

According to the mountain group structure for the Austrian cave directory according to Trimmel , in which the group bears the number 2580, the delimitation is not made on the Mallnitzer Tauern (Naßfeld), but on the Hohen Tauern ( Anlauftal ).

The southern part of the Goldberg group is called the Sadnig group.

The term Sonnblickgruppe is either used synonymously for the Goldberg group, or for the northern part of the Goldberg group in contrast to the Sadnig group.

Neighboring mountain groups

Together with the Ankogel Group , the Glockner Group , the Schober Group , the Kreuzeck Group , the Granatspitz Group , the Venediger Group , the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserferner Group , the Goldberg Group forms the large group of the Hohe Tauern.

The Goldberg group borders the following other mountain groups in the Alps:

	Salzburg Slate Alps	Radstadt Tauern
Glockner group		Ankogel Group
Schobergruppe	Kreuzeckgruppe

structure

According to the mountain group structure for the Austrian cave directory , the group is structured as follows:

• Sadnig group in Möllknie
• Sonnblick – Böseckgruppe between Hüttwinkltal and Mölltal
• Gamskarlspitze Group between Gastein Valley and Mallnitz Valley
• Edelweißspitze group between Fuschertal and Raurisertal to the Salzach
• Hocharn group between Hüttwinkltal, Seidlwinkeltal and Hochtor ( Großglockner High Alpine Road )
• Bernkogel – Türchlwandgruppe between Raurisertal and Gasteinertal to the Salzach

The Edelweißspitzengruppe (Radhausberg massif) is already included in the Glockner group according to the Alpine Club division of the Eastern Alps (AVE).

summit

All named three-thousanders in the Goldberg group:

Hocharn 3254  m above sea level A. Schareck 3123  m above sea level A. Grieswies-Schwarzkogel 3116  m above sea level A. Hoher Sonnblick 3106  m above sea level A. Baumbachspitze 3105  m above sea level A. Krumlkeeskopf 3101  m above sea level A. Roter Mann 3,097  m above sea level A. Sandkopf 3090  m above sea level A.

Arlthöhe 3084  m above sea level A. Goldbergspitze 3073  m above sea level A. Schneehorn 3,062  m above sea level A. Goldzechkopf 3042  m above sea level. A. Schlapperebenpitzen max. 3021  m above sea level A. Wine bottle head 3008  m above sea level A. Ritterkopf 3006  m above sea level A. Noespitze 3005  m above sea level A.

Mining

Gold was mined both in the Rauris Valley (near Kolm-Saigurn ) and in the Gastein Valley (in the Radhausberg massif ), and has helped the two valleys - and the Archdiocese of Salzburg - to achieve enormous wealth since the High Middle Ages. It was not until the 19th century that the mines were finally closed due to unprofitability. Even today, however, gold can be panned in the Rauris. Peaks like Goldberg peak ( 3073  m above sea level. A. ) and Goldzechkopf ( 3042  m above sea level. A. ) are reminiscent of a bygone era of gold mining in the Hohe Tauern. In addition, silver - as the silver penny ( 2600  m above sea level ) reveals - and other precious metals were mined, as well as precious stones ( aquamarine , garnet and others) were found.

literature

• Liselotte Buchenauer , Peter Holl: Alpine Club Leader Ankogel and Goldberg Group . Bergverlag Rudolf Rother , Munich 1986. ISBN 3-7633-1247-1
• Ingeborg Auer, Reinhard Böhm , Martin Leymüller , Wolfgang Schöner: The climate of the Sonnblick - climate atlas and climatography of the GAW station Sonnblick including the surrounding mountain region , ZAMG Vienna 2002, ISSN  1016-6254 .
• Artur Hottinger: Geology of the mountains between the Sonnblick-Hocharn group and the Salzach valley in the eastern Hohe Tauern . PhD thesis. Ed .: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. 1935 ( pdf , Research Collection of ETH Zurich [accessed on August 30, 2009]).
• Franz Stelzer: Basic features of the land forms of the Goldberg group. In: Annual Geographical Report from Austria 29, pp. 75–94.

Web links

Commons : Goldberg Group  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adolf Schaubach: The German Alps , Volume I, Jena 1845, pp. 78–84
2. ^ Anton von Ruthner : From the chain of the Hohe Tauern. In: Mountain and Glacier Travel in the Austrian High Alps. Carl Gerold's son, Vienna 1864. S. XVI
3. ↑ 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 . 
4. ↑ Sadnig Group. AEIOU , accessed May 18, 2014 . 
5. ^ Goldberg Group. AEIOU, accessed May 18, 2014 . 
6. ↑ according to ÖK50 , www.austrianmap.at
7. ↑ Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics Vienna: Books (accessed on October 11, 2012)