Mieminger Chain

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Mieminger (center left)

The Mieminger Mountains ( also called Mieminger chain) is a mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps in the Eastern Alps. It is situated entirely in Austria in Tyrol. The sub-group is located in the shadow of the more famous, directly adjacent to the north the weather stone. While the area around Coburg Cottage, Seeben and Drachensee in the West get ( Ehrwalder sun peak and Front Tajakopf with new via ferrata on the Tajakante ) and the Hohe Munde in the far east stimulate visit, it has remained very quiet in the less developed central part. The Hohe Munde is also a popular challenging ski touring destination.

Public Transportation: In Ehrwald on the west side of the mountains the Außerfernbahn holds. After Leutasch on the south side buses of Mittenwald and Seefeld in Tirol.

Geological conditions

The Mieminger Mountains are located in a geologically very interesting field. Between sun peak, Weather Stone and Daniel meet three rock units that were stacked on top of each other during the orogeny and are side by side open close today. The Mieminger Mountains are located in one of these nappe stack: the Inn Valley ceiling. Almost all the rocks of the mountains Mieminger arose once at the sea floor and consist of limestone and its conversion product, the dolomite. In addition, sandstones, shales, cherts, and volcanic tuffs roughness Wacken find.

In relation to the total age of the Earth, comprising about 4.5 billion years, the rocks come in Mieminger essentially consists of two relatively small time windows. One of them began about 250 and ended 130 million years ago ( with the Mesozoic geological eras Triassic and Jurassic ) and the other the last 10,000 years since the end of the Ice Age, (part of the Cenozoic ) includes. Older rocks are in Zwischentoren nowhere and the younger were removed by wind, weather and water since the Alps form about 35 million years ago.

First, the geological history begins in the tropical climate area, on the edge of a vast flat sea, the Tethysozean. There outsourced initially from material that has been purged from the land into the sea, to the sea and then rises calcifying organisms begin their colonization. Partly still convincing of land near sea deposits of limestone, dolomite stones, rough Wacken and breccias are in a narrow strip between Langlehn and Igelskar open ( Reichenhall layers). As they weather relatively easily, they form nicks and Törle how the Biberwier notch or Tajatörl.

In the next period of time creates a thick sequence of dark limestone, which often have a slight odor when struck by bitumen and conspicuous by their uneven, wursteligen layer surfaces: the Alpine limestone. In those limestones are irregularly formed, dark brown to black chert Knauern and greenish tuffs before that indicate nearby, the Stromboli volcanoes similar. This sequence is from a shallow, oxygen-rich sea area where reefs and basins alternating with each other. Time after which form the Partnach layers that are particularly nice to see in the " Schwärz " between Marie peaks and craggy Wampertem. They consist of light limestone benches and intervening shales.

Then begins in shallow sea water, the development of the reef, live in the small calcareous algae and corals. Your dead, chalky skeletons build on the most important rocks: the Wettersteinkalk. Clearly, this usually bright white and weather-resistant limestone stands out from the other rocks. It forms the major peaks of the Mieminger and Wettersteingebirge. Sun top, hedgehogs head and the Zugspitze consist of this rock. Since the Wettersteinkalk contains few plant nutrients, its dumps are mostly without vegetation and thus characterize the landscape above the tree line.

A special feature in Wettersteinkalk are silver-bearing lead and zinc ore. They were mined at the Silberleithe and the rest Mieminger. With the Wettersteinkalk ends in Mieminger the era of the Triassic and the Jurassic begins, whose deposits are of only minor importance. They were largely removed in the course of millions of years and have survived only in a few protected places and below ground.

At the time of their deposition, the rocks of the Northern Calcareous Alps were a few hundred kilometers south of its present position. Extreme forces acting today began to push these rock units northward about 35 million years ago. At that time were above the visible today rocks several kilometers of rock and several hundred meters of water. Consequently, a large overlay pressure set in, which prevented the underlying formations broke apart when pushed together.

To avoid the pressure formed in the rocks folds that partially tore apart and aufstapelten to rock ceilings. For example, the drop-off from the mountains to the Mieminger Ehrwalder pool or the Leutasch is the front of such a stack, which is called the Inn Valley ceiling. At the same time the rocks were squeezed upward. Taken together, these processes are called orogeny.

At the relatively young deposits in up to 70 meters deep moss are predominantly gravel, pebbles, clay, humus and peat, which should be used even once for the lead-zinc hut the union Silberleithen to Lermoos. The finishing touches were the mountains and valleys in the Würm. Approximately 1000 meters high was the ice of the glacier Loisach and after defrosting of the ice about 10,000 years ago the glacier left the typical glacial landforms: the moraines. The remaining ice remaining in the mountains were the typical Kare, in which the most recent moraines of glaciers are maintained.

The most crucial change in the landscape since the last ice age evoked the Fern Pass rockslide. He spilled the valley between Biberwier and Nassereith 200 meters high. Since then, the landscape has little changed. Occasionally, debris avalanches, rockslides or Murabgängen. Water, ice and wind access continues to be the rock on which transport their debris on the torrents down the valley and remember that the geological processes continue today.

Adjacent Mountain Ranges

The Mieminger borders the following other mountain groups in the Alps:

• Stubai Alps (South )
• Ötztal Alps (southwest )
• Lech Valley Alps ( in the west)
• Weather stone ( in the north)
• Karwendel Mountains ( to the east)

In the AVE, the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps, published in 1984, the Mieminger chain and the Wettersteingebirge are shown as a single mountain range.

Boundary

In the south of the Inn is the border of the brook at the low Inzing upstream to the confluence of the Gurglbachs in Imst. The western border runs along the Gurgltal from Imst to Reith Wet and over the Fern Pass to Ehrwald. In the north the boundary of Ehrwald runs along the Gaisbachs and Ehrwalder Alm to the Gaistal ( Leutascher Ache ) and continue on Leutasch Oberweidach and north of Simmel mountain pass to Drahnbach. The eastern border runs along the Drahnbachs and Seefeld's saddle, then down along the Lower Bach to the confluence with the Inn.

The Fern Pass connects the Mieminger chain with the Lech Valley Alps. The unnamed saddle at the Ehrwalder Alm provides the connection between Mieminger weather stone. The Seefeld saddle combines the Mieminger chain of the Karwendel.

Subgroups

The Alpine Club leader shares the Mieminger chain in the following sub- groups:

• Main ridge (of the Hohe Munde to Hochwannig )
• Northern side combs ( Wampeter Schrofen, Schartenkopf, sun top, width head, hedgehog heads, Tajaköpfe, scorpion )
• Southern side combs ( rear harrow comb, Jews head crest, castle head comb, Wankspitzen, Arzbergkamm, Höllkopf )
• Tschirgant Simmering Stock ( Tschirgant, Simmering )
• The hill country between Seefeld and the Buchener saddle at the Hohe Munde is not described in the Alpine Club leaders. Orographically but it is undoubtedly the Mieminger chain.

Summit

The 10 highest peaks of the Mieminger chain:

• Hochplattig, main peak, 2768 m
• Hochplattig, Westeck, 2749 m
• Eastern Gries peaks, 2747 m
• Western Gries peaks, 2741 m
• High wall, North Peak, 2719 m
• High wall, West Peak, 2715 m
• Eastern Mitter peak, 2705 m
• Hochplattig, Signal Peak, 2698 m
• Western Mitter peak, 2693 m
• Mean peak Mitter, 2686 m

In the Mieminger chain are over 60 named and provided with spot elevation summit. Among the best known are, in order of height:

• Greenstone, 2666 m
• Hohe Munde, 2659 m
• Wannig, 2493 m
• Front Tajakopf, 2452 m
• Ehrwalder sun peak, 2417 m
• Rear Tajakopf, 2409 m
• Tschirgant, 2,370 m
• Simmering, 2096 m

In the area of ​​1789 m high Marienbergjochs is a ski resort.

Tourism

In the Mieminger chain are three huts of the Alpine Club, only one of which is farmed.

• Alplhaus: Height: 1506 m, self-catering (special lock), not farmed, key available through the Alpine Club Munich, 16 Dormitory, valley town: Wildermieming, duration of Wildermieming: 2 hours
• Width of head hut: Height: 2040 m, self-catering (AV - key ), not farmed, 5 Dormitory, valley town: Ehrwald, walking time of Ehrwald: 3.5 hours
• Coburg Cottage: Height: 1920 meters, staffed from early June to October 80 Dormitory, winter room with 10 bearings, valley town: Ehrwald, walking distance from the Ehrwalder Alm ( cable car ): 2 hours

Remote / distance trails

The Via Alpina, a cross-border long-distance trail with five sub- paths through the whole Alps, also passes through the Mieminger Mountains.

The Red Trail Via Alpina runs with two stages through Mieminger as follows:

• Stage R46 extends from the Reintalangerhuette to Coburg Cottage. The first part of this stage is located in the weather stone.
• Stage R47 extends from the Coburg Cottage On Biberwier to Wolfratshauser hut. The second part of this stage is located in the Lech Valley Alps.

Literature and Maps

• Rudolf Wutscher: Mieminger chain. A Guide for valleys, mountains and cabins ( = Alpine Club leaders. Eastern Alps ). Bergverlag Rother, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3-7633-1099-1.
• Alpine Club Card 4 /2: Weather Stone and Mieminger. 1:25.000.