The Durreck Group in

South Tyrol it, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige lld, Provinzia Autonoma de Balsan/Bulsan – Südtirol , settlement_type = Autonomous province , image_skyline = , image_alt ...

is an independent mountain range within the

Venediger Group The Venediger Group (german: Venedigergruppe) is a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps. Together with the Granatspitze Group, the Glockner Group, the Goldberg Group, and the Ankogel Group, it forms the main ridge of the High Tauern. The hig ...

. To the north and west it is bounded by the

Tauferer Ahrntal The Tauferer Ahrntal denotes the valley of the Ahr ( it, Aurino) River, a tributary valley of the Puster Valley in South Tyrol, Italy. It is commonly divided into the Tauferer Tal (''Val di Tures''), stretching from the confluence with the Rien ...

, behind which the peaks of the

Zillertal Alps The Zillertal Alps ( it, Alpi Aurine; german: Zillertaler Alpen) are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps on the border of Austria and Italy. Name The range is named after the Zillertal (Ziller river valley) on its north. Geography The ...

stand. To the south it is separated by the valley of Reintal from the

Rieserferner Group The Rieserferner Group ( it, Gruppo delle Vedrette di Ries, german: Rieserfernergruppe) is a mountain range in the Austrian Central Alps. Together with the Ankogel Group, Goldberg Group, Glockner Group, Schober Group, Kreuzeck Group, Granatspitz ...

. The Ochsenlenke (2,623 m) forms the eastern end of the Durreck Group where the rocky ridge drops to almost 2,600 m and completely disappears under the rolling depositional landscape. From the Schneespitze (2,925 m) the first peaks and glaciers of the rest of the Venediger Group appear and link to the main chain of the

High Tauern The High Tauern ( pl.; german: Hohe Tauern, it, Alti Tauri) are a mountain range on the main chain of the Central Eastern Alps, comprising the highest peaks east of the Brenner Pass. The crest forms the southern border of the Austrian states of S ...

, whose

orographic Orography is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain. Orography (also known as ''oreography'', ''orology'' or ''oreology'') falls within the broader discipl ...

ally western foothills are therefore the Durreck Group. The

Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps The Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (german: Alpenvereinseinteilung der Ostalpen, AVE) is a common division of the Eastern Alps into 75 mountain ranges, based on the Moriggl Classification (ME) first published in 1924 by the German a ...

also counts the range as part of the

. The Durreck Group lies entirely within the

Rieserferner-Ahrn Nature Park The Rieserferner-Ahrn Nature Park (german: Naturpark Rieserferner-Ahrn) is a nature reserve in South Tyrol, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is loca ...

Peaks

The highest peak, and the one that gives its name to the group, is the

Durreck The Durreck (, also called the ''Durreckspitze'', it, Cima Dura) is the highest mountain in the Durreck Group, a South Tyrolean range that divides the Ahrntal valley in the north from the Reintal valley in the south. Location The Durreck lies ...

(Ital. ''Cima Dura'') with a height of Other summits above 3,000 metres are: * Großer Moosstock, also ''Großer Moostock'', ''Großer Moosnock'' (Ital. ''Picco Palù''): * Hirbernock (Ital. ''Cima di Moia''): , according to other sources only

External links

* {{citation, surname1=Harald Rost, title=Zur Geologie, Petrographie und Tektonik des Pennins, der Matreier Zone und des Altkristallins zwischen Pürschbach und Grossklausenbach (Durreckgruppe, Ahrntal, Südtirol) , url=http://durreck.de/index.htm , publication-place=Erlangen , date=1989 , language=German , access-date=2010-11-06 , type=Diplomarbeit , publisher=Universität Erlangen , url-status=dead, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221032205/http://durreck.de/index.htm , archive-date=2015-02-21
The Durreck Group in 3D
Mountain ranges of the Alps Mountain ranges of South Tyrol Venediger Group Rieserferner-Ahrn Nature Park