Dachstein Mountains

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Aerial view of the Dachstein from approximately 3,600 m with Niederer Dachstein (left) and Gjaidstein (in the background )

The Dachstein Mountains are a mountain range of the Alps, as a collective designation of the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (AVE # 14 ).

It includes:

  • The actual Dachstein massif with the Hoher Dachstein ( 2995 m above sea level. A. ) as the main summit
  • Grimming ( 2351 m above sea level. A. ) in the east to the upper Styrian Enns Valley
  • Sarstein (1975 m above sea level. A. ) in the north, on the opposite bank of the Traun

Boundary

The Dachstein mountain range is limited as follows:

  • Dead Mountain range that separates the line of St. Agatha on Lake Hallstatt - Pötschenhöhe - Bad Aussee - Kainischtraun - Bad Mitterndorf - Klachau - Grimmig Bach to Enns
  • To the Rottenmanner and Wölzer Tauern and the Lower Tauern in the south is the way of Enns, about of Untergrimming, to the confluence of the White House in the Enns Valley Stream at the border
  • To Roßbrand the Salzburg Slate Alps in the south-west Weissbach - Ramsaubach - Schildlehen Bach - Cold Mandling - Warm Mandling - Marcheggsattel - Fritz Bach - Linbach - Neubach Lungötz in the Lammer Valley
  • In the west the Lammer Valley forms the border with the Tennen Mountains
  • To the Salzkammergut mountains in the northwest of the line Rußbach - Pass Gschuett - Gosaubach - Hallstatt lake - Saint Agatha

Structure

The two solitary mountains Grimmig and Sarstein were, although both are strongly separated from hydrographic - orographic point of view, already about slammed into the Moriggl division from 1924 in addition to purely organizational reasons the Dachstein floor, because both broken pieces of fairly uniform Dachsteinkalkmasse are.

As a parting lines break down:

  • Hallstatt and Koppentraun to Sarstein
  • Bad Mitterndorf the Salza river with the Salzastausee Grimming - here the Dachstein glacier has ground out a broad valley which drains the Kainischtraun to the north and the Grimmig Bach to the south, and representing the natural scenic isolation from the Dead Mountains. Between the crosses Salza quite strange the valley, and forms a narrow aperture ( Salza canyon) between Grimmig and Kemet Mountains, the eastern edge of the Dachstein plateau.
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