Salzkammergut Mountains

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Gamsfeld from Hornspitzbahn, bottom left the place Rußbach

The Salzkammergut Mountains are a mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps in the Eastern Alps, but also include the northern edge of the Alps peaks of the flysch zone.

You are fully in Austria. Proportion have the provinces of Upper Austria and Salzburg.

The concept

The definition and delimitation of the Salzkammergut Mountains as a mountain range follows the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (AVE ) of 1984., In other countries of the Alpine area or outside as well as other experts and stakeholders partly different divisions of the Alps and the boundaries of sub-groups are also common. Meyers Lexicon 1888 speaks about more of Salzkammergut Alps and is one Tennen Mountains, an umbrella group of stones with the Chamber Mountains, Sengsengebirge and Pyhrgas added. This classification is no longer used today.

Boundary

In the north the foothills of the Alps forms the border between the outlet of the river Salzach in Salzburg in the foothills of the Alps and the outlet of the Alpine foothills near Gmunden Traun. The eastern border is formed by the Traun River from Lake Traun upriver to Lake Hallstatt. In the south, the boundary runs from Lake Hallstatt, Gosau along the brook to Gosau and Pass Gschuett. From there it goes along the Russbach downward to the Lammer and the mouth of the River Salzach Golling. In the west the boundary runs along the Salzach River from the confluence of the Lammer downstream to Salzburg.

Adjacent Mountain Ranges

The Salzkammergut Mountains border the following other mountain groups in the Alps:

  • Berchtesgaden Alps ( in the west)
  • Tennen Mountains ( in the south)
  • Dachstein Mountains ( in the south)
  • Dead Mountains ( in the southeast )
  • Upper Austrian Alps (to the east )

In the north of the Salzkammergut mountains bordering the foothills of the Alps, the pass Gschuett connects the Salzkammergut Mountains with the Dachstein group.

Mountain ranges and peaks

The Salzkammergut Mountains are divided into two areas that are not orographic, but politically define themselves:

  • Salzkammergut foothills i.e.S. ( Upper Austrian Regional Planning Zone), as part of the Upper Austrian Alps in regional studies senses
  • Salzburg Alps, the eastern part of the Osterhorngruppe and their foothills to the alpine upland, to the limits of the Salzburg basin

The border follows the ridge lines roughly Kolomannsberg - North Rim Almkogelgruppe - right through the Sheep Mountain Group - West part Osterhorngruppe and then Gosaukammbahn the Dachstein.

The mountain range is divided:

  • Osterhorngruppe, the centrally - Southern main group of the Traun, Ischler Ache Wolfgangsee Lake Fuschl - furrow ( Wolfgangsee disorder), Salzach and Lammer Valley Postalm: Gamsfeld ( 2027 m ), the highest summit of the Group
  • But the eponymous Osterhorn ( 1,746 m ) is an insignificant side peak
  • Rinnkogel (1823 m)
  • Sheep Mountain ( 1782 m), a prominent limestone massif
  • Leonberg ( 1745 m)
  • Dragon wall ( 1176 m ), a 500 m high, in the foothills of the Alps -looking wall
  • Schober ( 1328 m)
  • Richtberg ( 1036 m)
  • Hongar ( Alps mountain 973 m)
  • Mondsee Attersee Attersee and Mondsee Mountains between: ( Hochplett Spitz 1134 m, Mondseeberg / Kulmspitze 1095 m, 1015 m Roßmoos, Saurüsselwald )
  • Kolomannsberg ( 1114 m) between the Mondsee and Wallersee
  • Sarstein (1975 m), distinctive floor near Bad Aussee to the Dachstein Mountains ( AVE # 14, Dachstein group in the broader sense )
  • Sandling ( 1717 m), the salt mines of Altausee as foothill to the Dead Mountains ( AVE # 15 )

Tourism

The peak height of the Salzkammergut mountains is comparatively modest. With the exception of a summit the 2000 meter mark is not reached. However, this is more than offset by the position of these mountains in most lakes area of the Northern Limestone Alps, Salzkammergut. The diversity of landscapes as well as the distant view of the higher adjacent mountain ranges make the Salzkammergut Mountains an ideal area for hikers.

In the Salzkammergut Mountains are the following huts of the Alpine Club:

  • Braunauer hut at St. Gilgen
  • Goisern Hut near Bad Goisern
  • Hochleckenhaus at Taferlklause
  • Kranabethsattelhütte at Ebensee
  • Riederhütte on Feuerkogelhaus / Ebensee
  • Schober hut in Fuschl ( unstaffed shelter )

Fern-/Weitwanderwege

  • The Via Alpina, a cross-border long-distance trail with five sub- paths through the whole Alps, proceeds at a stage through the Salzkammergut Mountains. The Purple Trail Via Alpina runs with the stage A32 of Bad Goisern Gosau on the Goisererhütte.
  • The long-distance trail 04 Voralpenweg crosses the Salzkammergut mountains on the route Traunsee - Feuerkogelhaus - Hell Mountain - Weissenbach am Attersee and Burgau - Sheep Mountain - Wolfgangsee - Fuschl - Faistenau - Ebenau - Gaisberg - Salzburg.
  • The Rupertiweg ( Weitwanderweg 10) clips the Salzkammergut Mountains at Haunsberg.
  • The Via Nova runs over Mondsee and ends in St. Wolfgang.
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