Tauern

The word Tauern originally meant " High transitions " ( passes) in the Austrian Central Alps and characterize the many mountain paths and passes, which intersected the parallel side of the Salzach River valleys in the mountains. Since the Middle Ages, when the mining reached a zenith, but referred to the corresponding Tauern mountain ranges. In many local names, the name remained.

• 3.1 Tauern houses

Etymology

The Naming of Tauern is interpreted differently.

• The name of the Tauern is an old word substrate (* taur - for, mountain '>' mountain pass 'transition' ), which is directly ( less likely ) or by Slavic mediation ( likely) gets into German. ( The Tauern name is probably Preslav, but there is also a common Slavic ture, swell '>, soil swelling ', ' ableitiger hill ', etc.).
• Another assumption was made that, Tauern ' the only mountain range is, which has retained its pre-Slavonic names in Carinthia in an unbroken tradition. He is a thousand - for, Taurus, great mountain derived 'from the Indo-European * (s ). The Tauern are so to speak the " bulls ", the old Taurisci Upper Carinthia, the " mountain people ", and the old Upper Carinthian town Teurnia the associated mountain town.

If the name Tauern Preslav, he would have to accept as Celtic, which is assumed to be suspected of belonging Taurisci, or as " Illyrian ", a collective term for possible pre-and early Celtic population in the Alps. In an unclear context is about the name of the village of Thaur near Innsbruck, is derived analogously from Illyrian, rock ', but also to Romansh Tgaura (' goat ').

Mountain ranges

The following mountain ranges now carry the name Tauern:

• Hohe Tauern, often only briefly mentioned Tauern.
• Low Tauern with their breakdown ( from west to east): Radstädter,
• Schladming,
• Rottenmanner and Wölzer and
• Seckauer Tauern.

High and Low Tauern have historically been - and are in some mountain subdivisions until today - collectively referred to as Tauern Alps. This extends partly within the limits Brennerpass-Liesing/Paltental, ie including the Zillertal Alps.

Transport links

The following transport links allow the crossing of the Tauern from north to south:

• The Felbertauernstraße ( B108 ) crosses under the Felbertauerntunnel the mountains in the area of ​​the Felber Tauern.
• The Tauern railway passes under the mountain in the Tauern between the Mallnitzer and the Hohe Tauern. This is the only north-south railway connecting the burner to the west and the Schober Pass in the east.
• The Grossglockner High Alpine Road crosses the Tauern in the area of ​​Hochtor.
• The Tauern motorway ( A10) passes under the Radstadt Tauern.
• The Katschberg Straße ( B99) crosses the Radstadt Tauern on the Radstadt Tauern pass.
• The Sölkpass crosses the Lower Tauern and defines the boundary between the Schladming Tauern and the Wölzer.
• The Triebener road ( B114 ) crosses the Lower Tauern Hohe Tauern in place and defines the boundary between the Rottenmanner and the Triebener ( Seckauer ) Tauern.

Transitions

The following transitions are named Tauern ( from west to east):

• In the Hohe Tauern, these are all so as not passable mule tracks: The Krimml Tauern ( 2,634 m) connects the Krimml Achen valley with the South Tyrol Ahrntal.
• The Felbertauernstraße or Windisch- Matrei Tauern ( 2,481 m) connects the Pinzgauer Felber Tauern with the East Tyrol, close to the Old Tauern ( 2498 m).
• The Kals Tauern ( 2,518 m) connects the Pinzgauer Stubachtal with the East Tyrol Kals Dorfertal.
• The Holy bleeder Tauern or Rauris ( 2,576 m), commonly called high door, connects the Pinzgau valley of Fuscher Ache with the Carinthian Mölltal.
• The Goldberg or Fraganter Tauern ( 2,754 m) connects the Pinzgauer Rauris valley with the Carinthian Fragant valley.
• The Low Tauern, also Mallnitzer Mountain and the High Tauern ( 2,459 m ), also called Korntauern, connect the Pinzgauer Gastein Valley with the Carinthian village Mallnitz and Mölltal.

• Of the Radstadt Tauern ( 1,738 m) connects Radstadt in Pongau Mauterndorf im Lungau by the two Taurachtäler.
• The Triebener Tauern ( 1,278 m ), also called Rottenmanner Tauern, connects the Paltental in shoots with the Pölstal.

• Thurn Tauern, today Pass Thurn

Such passports can be found Tauerntal as Tauernbach and Taurach several times, the latter partly surrounded by a Tauernpass in both directions.

Tauern houses

The houses of the Tauern Salzburg Archbishopric had been constructed at the transitions from the Middle Ages, they served the protection and maintenance of the then all-important trade routes, as well as accommodation and food station for the muleteers and traders. Examples are the Krimml Tauern house Krimml Tauern and the Tauern house Schößwend, the Obertauern House Hospital and the Matrei Tauern Haus am Felber Tauern. But accommodations that were built much later, as the built in 1928 Kals Tauern house of the DAV or the private Rauris Tauernhaus follow this tradition.

Places

The following places derive their names also on the concept Tauern:

• Under the Pongauer community Tauern Radstadt Tauern Pass,
• The ski resort of Obertauern directly on the Radstadt Tauern Pass,
• The cadastral Untertauern of Ossiach Ossiacher Tauern
• The Tauern hamlet of Ossiach
• The village of Matrei Tauer

Summit

Several peaks, especially in the vicinity of the transitions also contribute Tauern derived name:

• Felber Tauern mountain ( 2,988 m), west to the Felber Tauern in the Venediger. Tauern head ( 2,704 m), an insignificant pre-peak on the eastern ridge of the Felber Tauern mountain.

Others

• The Tauern Trail runs through the Ankogel and Goldberg group from Murtörl to Heiligenblut high door. It involves a continuous, marked trail system that allows experienced and properly equipped climbers to traverse the entire Tauern in this area without having to descend into the valley.
• Tauernmoossee in Stubachtal
• Hohe Tauern National Park
• Tauernkraftwerke AG ( Kaprun power plant )
• Tauern check Goat