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Tennengebirge
The Tennen Mountains (german: Tennengebirge) is a small, but rugged, mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, which lies in front of the Eastern Alps for its entire length. It is a very heavily karstified high plateau, about 60 km² in area, with many caves. The range is located in Austria in the district of Salzburg near Bischofshofen. Some 37 square kilometres of the Tennen plateau are above the 2,000 metre line and that part of the range within the state of Salzburg was turned into a nature reserve in 1982. Extent and neighbouring ranges The outline of the Tennen range is formed: * in the west by the '' Hagen Mountains'', a part of the '' Berchtesgaden Alps'', separated by the Salzach river. Here, at the northern end of the Lueg Pass, is the narrowest point of the Salzachöfen Gorge through the Limestone Alps. * in the north and northeast by the River Lammer as far as the Rußbach stream, which descends from the Gschütt Pass. Beyond the Lammer is the ''Osterh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennengebirge Karstflaeche
The Tennen Mountains (german: Tennengebirge) is a small, but rugged, mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, which lies in front of the Eastern Alps for its entire length. It is a very heavily karstified high plateau, about 60 km² in area, with many caves. The range is located in Austria in the district of Salzburg near Bischofshofen. Some 37 square kilometres of the Tennen plateau are above the 2,000 metre line and that part of the range within the state of Salzburg was turned into a nature reserve in 1982. Extent and neighbouring ranges The outline of the Tennen range is formed: * in the west by the '' Hagen Mountains'', a part of the '' Berchtesgaden Alps'', separated by the Salzach river. Here, at the northern end of the Lueg Pass, is the narrowest point of the Salzachöfen Gorge through the Limestone Alps. * in the north and northeast by the River Lammer as far as the Rußbach stream, which descends from the Gschütt Pass. Beyond the Lammer is the ''Osterh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scheffau Am Tennengebirge
Scheffau am Tennengebirge is a municipality in the Hallein district of Salzburg, Austria. Geography The municipality of Scheffau am Tennengebirge lies in the southern Tennengau of the Salzburger Land. The River Lammer flows through its territory. Its subordinate parishes are: Unterscheffau, Oberscheffau, Voregg, Wallingwinkl, Weitenau. Its Katastralgemeinde A cadastral community or cadastral municipality, is a cadastral subdivision of municipalities in the nations of Austria,Cadastral Template for Austria, web-pageCT-AT Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, ...n are Scheffau, Voregg und Weitenau. The villages lies at the foot of the Tennengebirge mountain range that rises to a height of and, to the south, forms the boundary with Pongau. To the north the municipality includes part of the Ostern Group which is up to high. The centre of the municipality is in the Lammer valley in Unterscheffau and Oberscheffau. References T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sankt Martin Am Tennengebirge
Sankt Martin am Tennengebirge is a municipality in the St. Johann im Pongau district in the Austrian state of Salzburg. Geography The village is located in the Ennspongau of the Salzburger Land, in a side valley of the Fritztal, between the southern foot of the Tennen Mountains and the Gerzkopf, a foothill of the Dachstein massif. It also belongs to the Lammer The Lammer is a river of Salzburg, Austria, a right tributary of the Salzach. The Lammer rises in the Tennen Mountains and flows from east to west, joining with the Salzach at Golling an der Salzach Golling an der Salzach is a market town in th ...tal region, in which it has shares, and to which it represents the valley pass. Culture and places of interest * Parish church of St. Martin am Tennengebirge, Gothic hall church of the 1430s with Baroque interior. References Gallery Image:Sankt Martin, wegpanorama foto2 2011-07-28 11.30.JPG, Sankt Martin am Tennengebirge, view to the village Cities and town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raucheck
At , Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen Österreich: Austrian Map online (Austrian 1:50,000 map series)'. the Raucheck is the highest peak in the Tennen Mountains in the Northern Limestone Alps. To the south rock faces up to 1,000 metres drop into the valley of the Salzach, whilst its northern side descends relatively gently over a broad plateau into the barren Pitschenberg valley where the Leopold Happisch Haus is located. Location The Raucheck rises in the southwest of the Tennen range east of the ''Lehnender Stein'' and west of the Werfener Hochthron on the edge of the extensive karst plateau. From its highest point with its summit cross there is an outstanding panorama, with particularly good views of the Hochkönig opposite, the rest of the Berchtesgaden Alps and the High Tauern mountains to the south (for example the Ankogel). Of note is that the height difference in crossing from the Raucheck to the Werfen on the opposite side of the Salzach valley is 1,900 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salzburg (state)
Salzburg (, ; bar, Soizbuag, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian) (also known as ''Salzburgerland'') is a States of Austria, state (''Land'') of the modern Republic of Austria. It is officially named ''Land Salzburg'' to distinguish it from its eponymous capital — the city of Salzburg. For centuries, it was an independent Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg, Prince-Bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire. Geography Location The state of Salzburg covers area of . It stretches along its main river — the Salzach – which rises in the Central Eastern Alps in the south to the Alpine foothills in the north. It is located in the north-west of Austria, close to the border with the Germany, German state of Bavaria; to the northeast lies the state of Upper Austria; to the east the state of Styria; to the south the states of Carinthia (state), Carinthia and Tyrol (state), Tyrol. With 529,085 inhabitants, it is one of the country's smaller states in terms of population. Running through th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osterhorn Group
The Salzkammergut Mountains (german: Salzkammergut-Berge) are a mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps, located in the Austrian states of Salzburg and Upper Austria. They are named after the Salzkammergut historic region, part of the Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Site. Geography According to the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps, the Salzkammergut Mountains (AVE 17a) lie to the east of the Berchtesgaden Alps and the city of Salzburg. To the north the Austrian Alpine Foreland is the boundary, between the points where the rivers Salzach and Traun spill out into the Foreland near Salzburg and Gmunden respectively. To the east the boundary with the Upper Austrian Prealps is formed by the Traun between the lakes of Traunsee and, further downstream, with the Totes Gebirge by the Lake Hallstatt on the foot of the Dachstein Mountains. To the south the border runs from Lake Hallstatt up the Gosau Valley to Gschütt Pass, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dachstein Mountains
The Dachstein Mountains (german: Dachsteingebirge) are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps. The term is used by the Austrian Alpine Club in its classification of the Eastern Alps as one of the 24 sub-ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps (AVE No. 14). The ''Dachstein'' range includes: * The Dachstein Massif proper with its highest peak, the Hoher Dachstein () * Grimming () in the east to the upper Styrian Enns valley * Sarstein () in the north at the other bank of the River Traun Extent The Dachstein Mountains are bordered as follows: * to the northeast by the ''Totes Gebirge'', which is separated by the line from Sankt Agatha on the Hallstättersee – Pötschenhöhe – Bad Aussee – Kainischtraun – Bad Mitterndorf – Klachau – Grimmingbach to the River Enns * to the south by the '' Rottenmanner und Wölzer Tauern'' and the ''Niedere Tauern'', which are separated by the River Enns, roughly from Untergrimming to its con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Limestone Alps
The Northern Limestone Alps (german: Nördliche Kalkalpen), also called the Northern Calcareous Alps, are the ranges of the Eastern Alps north of the Central Eastern Alps located in Austria and the adjacent Bavarian lands of southeastern Germany. The distinction from the latter group, where the higher peaks are located, is based on differences in geological composition. Geography If viewed on a west–east axis, the Northern Limestone Alps extend from the Rhine valley and the Bregenz Forest in Vorarlberg, Austria in the west extending along the border between the German federal-state of Bavaria and Austrian Tyrol, through Salzburg, Upper Austria, Styria and Lower Austria and finally ending at the Wienerwald at the city-limits of Vienna in the east. The highest peaks in the Northern Limestone Alps are the Parseierspitze () in the Lechtal Alps,Reynolds, Kev (2010). ''Walking in the Alps'', Cicerone, . and the Hoher Dachstein (). Other notable peaks in this range include the Zugs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golling An Der Salzach
Golling an der Salzach is a market town in the Hallein district of Salzburg, Austria. Geography It is located on the southern rim of the ''Tennengau'' region south of the city of Salzburg. Here at the confluence of the Salzach and its Lammer tributary, the river leaves the Salzachöfen Gorge between the Berchtesgaden Alps and the Tennen Mountains ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps and flows northwards into the broad Salzburg basin. The Hoher Göll massif of the Berchtesgaden Alps in the west comprise the Schwarzbachfall Cave and the high Golling Waterfall, a natural monument. Parallel to the Salzach River, the historic Salzachtal Straße enters the narrow gorge at Lueg Pass. Golling station is a stop on the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway, served by ÖBB trains and the Salzburg suburban S-Bahn network. The market town also has access to the Tauern Autobahn (A10) from Salzburg to Villach. The municipal area comprises the cadastral communities of Golling, Torren, and Obergäu. Golling p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annaberg-Lungötz
Annaberg-Lungötz is a municipality in the district of Hallein District, Hallein, in the Austrian state of Salzburg (state), Salzburg. Geography The municipality lies in the Lammer River valley at the foot of the Gosaukamm. History It belonged for centuries to the Pongau. Only in 1896, when Hallein became a district capital, did the municipality become part of the Tennengau. Tourism One of its subdivisions, Annaberg im Lammertal is a village especially notable for tourism. Located in the Alps, it is part of the Dachstein West ski region. Summer activities available for tourists include mountain biking, paragliding, white water rafting, walking holidays etc. References External links Official website Tennen Mountains Dachstein Mountains Cities and towns in Hallein District {{Salzburg-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werfenweng
Werfenweng is a municipality in the St. Johann im Pongau district in the state of Salzburg in Austria. Population Politics The Mayor is Dr.Peter Brandauer from the ÖVP party. See also * Alpine pearls * Salzburgerland * Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label= Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ... References External linksAlpine Pearls(Soft Mobility in the Alps)Werfenweng municipality Tennen Mountains [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
