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The Mieming(er) Range, Mieminger Chain (german: Mieminger Kette) or Mieminger Mountains (''Mieminger Gebirge''), is a mountain range of the
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. ...
in the
Eastern Alps
Eastern Alps is the name given to the eastern half of the Alps, usually defined as the area east of a line from Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine valley up to the Splügen Pass at the Alpine divide and down the Liro River to Lake Como in the ...
. It is located entirely in
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
within the state of
Tyrol
Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...
.
This sub-group is somewhat in the shadows of its more famous neighbour, the
Wetterstein
The Wetterstein mountains (german: Wettersteingebirge), colloquially called Wetterstein, is a mountain group in the Northern Limestone Alps within the Eastern Alps. It is a comparatively compact range located between Garmisch-Partenkirc ...
to the north. Whilst the region around the Coburger Hut and the lakes of
Seebensee
The Seebensee is a natural high mountain lake (an ice-age affected, rock basin lake) at a height of 1,657 metres, south of Ehrwald in the Mieming Range. It is surrounded by the Vorderer Tajakopf in the east, the Vorderer Drachenkopf in the south ...
and
Drachensee in the west (
Ehrwalder Sonnenspitze
The Sonnenspitze, also Ehrwalder Sonnenspitze, is a mountain, high, in the Mieming Chain in the Austrian state of Tyrol with a subpeak, the ''Signalgipfel'' (2,412 m) to the south. An ascent of the Sonnenspitze is one of the most popular tou ...
and
Vorderer Tajakopf
The Vorderer Tajakopf is a 2,450-metre-high mountain in the Mieming Chain in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
The normal route to the summit runs from the Coburger Hut (1,917 m) over the ''Vorderes Tajatörl'' and the south arête. More recently ...
with its new ''
klettersteig
A via ferrata (Italian language, Italian for "iron path", plural ''vie ferrate'' or in English ''via ferratas'') is a protected climbing route found in the Alps and certain other locations. The term "via ferrata" is used in most countries and ...
'' over the Tajakante) and the
Hohe Munde
The Hohe Munde is a mountain at the eastern end of the Mieming Chain in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It has two peaks: the west top (2,662 m) and the east top or ''Mundekopf'' (2,592 m).
Location
The Hohe Munde rises north of the v ...
in the extreme east receive large numbers of visitors, the less developed central area remains very quiet. The Hohe Munde is also a popular and challenging ski touring destination.
Public transport links: The
Außerfern Railway
The Ausserfern Railway (german: Außerfernbahn) is a cross-border railway line in the German state of Bavaria and the Austrian state of Tyrol. The single-tracked branch line starts from Kempten in Germany, before crossing into Austria just after p ...
stops at
Ehrwald
Ehrwald is a municipality in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Geography
Ehrwald lies at the southern base of the Zugspitze (2950 meters above sea level), Germany's highest mountain, but which is shared with Austria. The town ...
on the western side of the range. Busses run from
Leutasch
Leutasch is a municipality in the northern part of the district Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol about 30 km northwest of Innsbruck and 10 km northwest of Seefeld in Tirol
Geography
The village lies in the Leutaschtal, a ...
on the southern side of the mountains to
Mittenwald
Mittenwald is a German municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria.
Geography
Mittenwald is located approximately 16 kilometres to the south-east of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It is situated in the Valley of the River Isar, b ...
and
Seefeld in Tirol
Seefeld in Tirol is an old farming village, now a major tourist resort, in Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol with a local population of 3,312 (as of 1 January 2013). The village is located about northwest of Inn ...
.
Geology
The Mieminger Mountains lie in a particularly interesting region from a geological standpoint. Between the peaks of the Sonnenspitze, Wetterstein and Daniel, three
geological unit
A stratigraphic unit is a volume of rock of identifiable origin and relative age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it ...
s meet that, during the course of
mountain building
Mountain formation refers to the geological processes that underlie the formation of mountains. These processes are associated with large-scale movements of the Earth's crust (tectonic plates). Folding, faulting, volcanic activity, igneous intr ...
, were piled on top of one another as
nappe
In geology, a nappe or thrust sheet is a large sheetlike body of rock (geology), rock that has been moved more than or above a thrust fault from its original position. Nappes form in compressional tectonic settings like continental collision z ...
s and today are adjacent to one together. The Mieminger Mountains are located in one of these stacks: the Inn Valley or Inntal Stack. Almost all the rocks in the Mieminger range were formed at one stage on the seabed and consist of
limestone
Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...
and its derivative,
dolomite Dolomite may refer to:
*Dolomite (mineral), a carbonate mineral
*Dolomite (rock), also known as dolostone, a sedimentary carbonate rock
*Dolomite, Alabama, United States, an unincorporated community
*Dolomite, California, United States, an unincor ...
. In addition there are
sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...
s,
argillites
:''"Argillite" may also refer to Argillite, Kentucky.''
Argillite () is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed predominantly of indurated clay particles. Argillaceous rocks are basically lithified muds and oozes. They contain variable amounts ...
,
hornfels
Hornfels is the group name for a set of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and hardened by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and have been rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable. These pro ...
, carbonate
breccia
Breccia () is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.
The word has its origins in the Italian language, in which it means "rubble". A breccia may have a variety of di ...
s (rauhwackes) and
volcanic
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...
tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock cont ...
s.
In relation to the total age of the Earth, which is about 4,500 million years, the rocks of the Mieminger Mountains come mainly from two relatively small windows of time. One of these began about 250 million years ago and ended 130 million years ago (during the
Triassic
The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period ...
and
Jurassic
The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The J ...
Periods), whilst the second window is the last 10,000 years since the end of the
Würm glaciation
The Würm glaciation or Würm stage (german: Würm-Kaltzeit or ''Würm-Glazial'', colloquially often also ''Würmeiszeit'' or ''Würmzeit''; cf. ice age), usually referred to in the literature as the Würm (often spelled "Wurm"), was the last g ...
(part of the
Cenozoic
The Cenozoic ( ; ) is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history. It is characterised by the dominance of mammals, birds and flowering plants, a cooling and drying climate, and the current configura ...
). There are no older rocks that predate those from in the first window, and the more recent ones have been
eroded
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as Surface runoff, water flow or wind) that removes soil, Rock (geology), rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust#Crust, Earth's crust, and then sediment transport, tra ...
by wind, weather and water since the
Alpine orogeny about 35 million years ago.
Mesozoic Era
The mountains' geological history began in tropical climes, on the edge of a broad and shallow sea: the
Alpine Tethys
The Piemont-Liguria basin or the Piemont-Liguria Ocean (sometimes only one of the two names is used, for example: Piemonte Ocean) was a former piece of oceanic crust that is seen as part of the Tethys Ocean. Together with some other oceanic basi ...
. To begin with, material was deposited that had been washed into the sea from the land; then the sea level rose and limestone-forming organisms began to populate it. Marine deposits that were near the shore, made of limestones, dolomitic rocks and breccias, are still layered in places in a narrow strip of land between Langlehn and Igelskar (Reichenhall Strata). Because they weather relatively easily, they form
cols (''Scharte'') and ''Törle'' like the ''Biberwierer Scharte'' or the ''Tajatörl''.
During the next time period, a thick sequence of dark limestones was formed - the Alpine
muschelkalk
The Muschelkalk (German for "shell-bearing limestone"; french: calcaire coquillier) is a sequence of sedimentary rock strata (a lithostratigraphic unit) in the geology of central and western Europe. It has a Middle Triassic (240 to 230 million ye ...
s - which, when struck, often smell slightly of bitumen and are striking because of their uneven, irregular surface layers. Irregularly shaped, dark brown to black hornfels nodules (''Knauern'') and greenish tuffs occur in these limestones that indicate the presence of nearby Stromboli-like volcanoes. This sequence arose from a shallow, oxygen-rich marine environment, in which reefs and basins alternated with one another. Some time afterwards the Partnach Strata were formed that are especially attractive in the ''Schwärz'' between the ''Marienbergspitzen'' and ''Wampertem Schrofen''. They consist of light-coloured limestone
interbedded
In geology, interbedding occurs when beds (layers of rock) of a particular lithology lie between or alternate with beds of a different lithology. For example, sedimentary rocks may be interbedded if there were sea level variations in their sedimen ...
with
argillite
:''"Argillite" may also refer to Argillite, Kentucky.''
Argillite () is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed predominantly of indurated clay particles. Argillaceous rocks are basically lithified muds and oozes. They contain variable amounts ...
s.
Next,
reef
A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic processes— deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock out ...
s began to develop in the shallow waters of the sea, in which small coralline
algae
Algae (; singular alga ) is an informal term for a large and diverse group of photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. It is a polyphyletic grouping that includes species from multiple distinct clades. Included organisms range from unicellular mic ...
(
haptophyte
The haptophytes, classified either as the Haptophyta, Haptophytina or Prymnesiophyta (named for ''Prymnesium''), are a clade of algae.
The names Haptophyceae or Prymnesiophyceae are sometimes used instead. This ending implies classification at t ...
s) and
coral
Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and sec ...
s lived. Their dead, limy skeletons form the most important rock: Wetterstein limestone. This mostly bright white and weather-resistant limestone contrasts strongly with the other rocks. It forms the striking summits of the Mieminger and Wetterstein Mountains, not least the Sonnenspitze, Igelskopf and Zugspitze. Because Wetterstein limestone contains few plant nutrients, its
scree
Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall. Landforms associated with these materials are often called talus deposits. Talus deposits typically ha ...
and
talus slope
Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall. Landforms associated with these materials are often called talus deposits. Talus deposits typically h ...
s are largely unvegetated and this tends to characterise the scene above the
tree line
The tree line is the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing. It is found at high elevations and high latitudes. Beyond the tree line, trees cannot tolerate the environmental conditions (usually cold temperatures, extreme snowp ...
.
A feature of Wetterstein limestone is
silver
Silver is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag (from the Latin ', derived from the Proto-Indo-European wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂erǵ-, ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, whi ...
-containing
lead
Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cu ...
and
zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. Zinc is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed. It is the first element in group 12 (IIB) of the periodi ...
ore
Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.Encyclopædia Britannica. "Ore". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 7 April 2 ...
. These were mined at
Silberleithe and in the rest of the Mieminger Mountains. The
Triassic
The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period ...
Period in the Mieminger Chain ends with Wetterstein limestone and is then followed by the
Jurassic
The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The J ...
whose deposits are of less importance. They were largely carried off in the course of the millions of years and only still exist in a few sheltered sites or underground.
Alpine Orogeny
At the time of their deposition the rocks of the Northern Limestone Alps were located several hundred kilometres south of their present position. About 35 million years ago, tectonic forces, that are still active today, began to push these geological units northwards. At that time several kilometres of rock and several hundred metres of water lay on top of the rocks visible today. As a result there was a massive overlapping pressure that prevented the formations underneath from breaking up as they were pushed together.
As a result of the compressional forces,
thrust fault
A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.
Thrust geometry and nomenclature
Reverse faults
A thrust fault is a type of reverse fault that has a dip of 45 degrees or less.
If ...
ing occurred piling the rock layers up into
nappe
In geology, a nappe or thrust sheet is a large sheetlike body of rock (geology), rock that has been moved more than or above a thrust fault from its original position. Nappes form in compressional tectonic settings like continental collision z ...
s (''Gesteinsdecken''). For example, the steep slopes falling away from the Mieminger Mountains into the
Ehrwald
Ehrwald is a municipality in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Geography
Ehrwald lies at the southern base of the Zugspitze (2950 meters above sea level), Germany's highest mountain, but which is shared with Austria. The town ...
Basin or the Leutasch River are the front of such a nappe, also called the Inn Valley Stack (''Inntaldecke''). At the same time the rocks were uplifted. Taken together these processes are referred to as
orogeny
Orogeny is a mountain building process. An orogeny is an event that takes place at a convergent plate margin when plate motion compresses the margin. An ''orogenic belt'' or ''orogen'' develops as the compressed plate crumples and is uplifted t ...
or mountain building.
Ice ages
The relatively recent deposits in the up to 70 metre deep moors are predominantly gravels, shingles, clay, humus and peat; the latter even being used at one time near
Lermoos
Lermoos is a municipality in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
It consists of two subdivisions: Unterdorf and Oberdorf.
Lermoos is most popular for its skiing and snowboarding in the winter and is very popular resort in th ...
for the lead-zinc smelter of the Silberleithen cooperative (''Gewerkschaft''). The finishing touches to the mountains and valleys took place during the
Würm glaciation
The Würm glaciation or Würm stage (german: Würm-Kaltzeit or ''Würm-Glazial'', colloquially often also ''Würmeiszeit'' or ''Würmzeit''; cf. ice age), usually referred to in the literature as the Würm (often spelled "Wurm"), was the last g ...
. The ice sheet of the
Loisach
The Loisach is a river that flows through Tyrol, Austria and Bavaria, Germany. Its name might be Celtic in origin, from Proto-Celtic ''*lawo'' and ''*iskā'', both of which mean "water". The Loisach goes through the great swamp .
The Loisach is a ...
Glacier was about 1,000 metres thick and, after the ice had melted about 10,000 years ago, it left behind that typical feature of ice age terrain: moraines. The remnants of the ice sheet in the mountains formed classic
cirque
A (; from the Latin word ') is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic , meaning a pot or cauldron) and (; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform ...
s, in which the last moraines of the glacier have survived.
The major change to the landscape since the last ice age was the Fern Pass landslide that filled the valley between Biberwier and Nassereith to a depth of 200 metres. Since then the scenery has changed very little. Occasionally there are rock avalanches, landslides or mudflows. Water, ice and wind continue to attack the rocks, transporting their debris down the mountain torrents into the valleys and reminding us that these geological processes continue today.
Neighbouring ranges
The Mieminger Chain borders on the following other mountain ranges of the Alps:
*
Stubai Alps
The Stubai Alps (in German ''Stubaier Alpen'') is a mountain range in the Central Eastern Alps of Europe. It derives its name from the Stubaital valley to its east and is located southwest of Innsbruck, Austria. Several peaks form the border betwee ...
(to the south)
*
Ötztal Alps
The Ötztal Alps ( it, Alpi Venoste, german: Ötztaler Alpen) are a mountain range in the Central Eastern Alps, in the State of Tyrol in western Austria and the Province of South Tyrol in northern Italy.
Geography
The Ötztal Alps are arrayed at ...
(to the southwest)
*
Lechtal Alps
The Lechtal Alps (german: Lechtaler Alpen) are a mountain-range in western Austria, and part of the greater Northern Limestone Alps range. Named for the river Lech which drains them north-ward into Germany, the Lechtal Alps occupy the Austrian stat ...
(to the west)
*
Wetterstein
The Wetterstein mountains (german: Wettersteingebirge), colloquially called Wetterstein, is a mountain group in the Northern Limestone Alps within the Eastern Alps. It is a comparatively compact range located between Garmisch-Partenkirc ...
(to the north)
*
Karwendel
The Karwendel is the largest mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps. The major part belongs to the Austrian federal state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol, while the adjacent area in the north is part of Bavaria, Germany. Four mountain chain, chain ...
(to the east)
In the ''AVE'', 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 ...
, published in 1984, the Mieminger and Wetterstein ranges are shown as a single unit.
Boundaries
To the south the
River Inn forms the boundary of the range from the Niederbach stream near
Inzing
Inzing is a town in the Austrian Federal State Tyrol.
Geography Location
Inzing is located in the Inntal between Innsbruck in east and Telfs in west. It lies on the southern bank of the Inn River. In the south of the town you see the Rangger ...
upstream as far as its confluence with the Gurglbach near
Imst
Imst (; Southern Bavarian: ''Imscht'') is a town in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol. It lies on the River Inn in western Tyrol, some west of Innsbruck and at an altitude of above sea level. With a current population (2013) of 9,552, Imst ...
. Its western boundary runs along the
Gurgltal valley from Imst to
Nassereith
Nassereith is a municipality and a village in the Imst district of Austria and is located 11 km north of Imst on the upper course of the Gurgl brook
The Gurglbach is a river of Tyrol, Austria.
The Gurglbach originates on the rock face near ...
and over the
Fern Pass
Fern Pass (elevation 1212 m) is a mountain pass in the Tyrolean Alps in Austria. It is located between the Lechtal Alps on the west and the Mieming Mountains on the east. The highest peak in Germany, the Zugspitze is only 13.5 km away to th ...
to
Ehrwald
Ehrwald is a municipality in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Geography
Ehrwald lies at the southern base of the Zugspitze (2950 meters above sea level), Germany's highest mountain, but which is shared with Austria. The town ...
. To the north its boundary runs from Ehrwald along the Gaisbach stream and the Ehrwalder Alm into the Gaistal (
Leutascher Ache
The Leutascher Ache (also: ''Leutasch'', in its upper range Gaistalbach) is a river of Tyrol, Austria and of Bavaria, Germany, a left tributary of the Isar.
The Leutascher Ache springs in the Mieming Range in the region of Ehrwald in Tyrol and flo ...
) and continues through
Leutasch
Leutasch is a municipality in the northern part of the district Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol about 30 km northwest of Innsbruck and 10 km northwest of Seefeld in Tirol
Geography
The village lies in the Leutaschtal, a ...
–Oberweidach and past the Simmelberg to the north to the Drahnbach. The eastern boundary runs along the stream of Drahnbach and over the Seefelder saddle, then downhill along the Niederbach to its confluence with the Inn.
The
Fern Pass
Fern Pass (elevation 1212 m) is a mountain pass in the Tyrolean Alps in Austria. It is located between the Lechtal Alps on the west and the Mieming Mountains on the east. The highest peak in Germany, the Zugspitze is only 13.5 km away to th ...
links the Mieminger range with the Lechtal Alps. The unnamed saddle near the Ehrwalder Alm is the link between the Mieminger Chain and the Wetterstein. The Seefelder saddle links the Mieminger Chain with the Karwendel.
Sub-divisions
The Alpine Club Guide divides the Mieminger Chain into the following sub-groups:
* Main crest (''Hauptkamm'') (from the
Hohe Munde
The Hohe Munde is a mountain at the eastern end of the Mieming Chain in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It has two peaks: the west top (2,662 m) and the east top or ''Mundekopf'' (2,592 m).
Location
The Hohe Munde rises north of the v ...
to the
Hochwannig
The Wannig (also Hochwannig or Wanneck) is a 2,493-metre-high mountain in the Mieming Chain in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Location
The Wannig forms the western end of the Mieming Range. To the southwest lies the village of Nassereith in the ...
)
* Northern side ridges (''Nördliche Seitenkämme'') (Wampeter Schrofen, Schartenkopf, Sonnenspitze, Breitenkopf, Igelsköpfe, Tajaköpfe, Drachenköpfe)
* Southern side ridges (''Südliche Seitenkämme'') (Hintereggenkamm, Judenkopfkamm, Schlosskopfkamm, Wankspitzen, Arzbergkamm, Höllkopf)
* Tschirgant-Simmering massif (''Tschirgant-Simmering-Stock'') (Tschirgant, Simmering)
* The hills between Seefeld and the Buchener Saddle near the Hohe Munde are not described in the guide. Orographically they are definitely part of the Mieminger Chain.
Peaks
![Blick von Munde nach Westen HQ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Blick_von_Munde_nach_Westen_HQ.jpg)
The 10 highest peaks in the Mieminger Chain are the:
*
Hochplattig
The Hochplattig is a mountain, high,Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen Österreich: Austrian Map online (Austrian map series 1:50,000)''. and the highest summit in the Mieming Chain, a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps in the ...
, main summit, 2768 m
* Hochplattig, Westeck, 2749 m
* Östliche Griesspitzen, 2747 m
* Westliche Griesspitzen, 2741 m
*
Hochwand
Hochwand (2,719 m) is a mountain in the Mieming Range in Tyrol
Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of ...
, Nordostgipfel, 2719 m
* Hochwand, Südwestgipfel, 2715 m
* Östliche Mitterspitze, 2705 m
* Hochplattig, Signalgipfel, 2698 m
* Westliche Mitterspitze, 2693 m
* Mittlere Mitterspitze, 2686 m
In the Mieminger Mountains there are over 60 named peaks with spot heights. The best known, in order of height, are the:
* Grünstein, 2,666 m
*
Hohe Munde
The Hohe Munde is a mountain at the eastern end of the Mieming Chain in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It has two peaks: the west top (2,662 m) and the east top or ''Mundekopf'' (2,592 m).
Location
The Hohe Munde rises north of the v ...
, 2,659 m
*
Wannig, 2,493 m
*
Vorderer Tajakopf
The Vorderer Tajakopf is a 2,450-metre-high mountain in the Mieming Chain in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
The normal route to the summit runs from the Coburger Hut (1,917 m) over the ''Vorderes Tajatörl'' and the south arête. More recently ...
, 2,452 m
*
Ehrwalder Sonnenspitze
The Sonnenspitze, also Ehrwalder Sonnenspitze, is a mountain, high, in the Mieming Chain in the Austrian state of Tyrol with a subpeak, the ''Signalgipfel'' (2,412 m) to the south. An ascent of the Sonnenspitze is one of the most popular tou ...
, 2,417 m
*
Hinterer Tajakopf
The Hinterer Tajakopf is a mountain, 2,408 metres high, in the Mieming Range in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
The Hintere Tajakopf may be ascended from the Coburger Hut (1,917 m) via the ''Hinteres Tajatörl'' (2,259 m) to the south ...
, 2,409 m
*
Tschirgant, 2,370 m
*
Wankspitze
Wankspitze (elevation ) is a summit of the Mieming Range in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It separates the Griessspitzen to the north from the Mieming Plateau {{Coord, 47, 19, N, 10, 59, E, type:mountain_region:AT-7_dim:15000_map:right_maptype: re ...
, 2,208 m
* Simmering, 2,096 m
In the area of the 1,789 m high Marienbergjoch is a
ski area
A ski area is the terrain and supporting infrastructure where skiing and other snow sports take place. Such sports include alpine and cross-country skiing, snow boarding, tubing, sledding, etc. Ski areas may stand alone or be part of a ski resort.
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Tourism
Huts
There are three Alpine Club huts in the Mieminger Mountains, only one of which is managed.
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Alplhaus: height: 1,506 m, self-catering (special lock), not managed, key obtainable from the Munich Alpine Club, 16 mattress spaces, base: Wildermieming, duration from Wildermieming: 2 hours
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Breitenkopf Hut: height: 2,040 m, self-catering (Alpine Club key), not managed, 5 mattress spaces, base: Ehrwald, duration from Ehrwald: 3.5 hours
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Coburger Hut
The Coburger Hut (german: Coburger Hütte) is an Alpine hut owned by the Coburg Branch of the German Alpine Club. It is located in the Mieming Range in the Austrian state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and lies only a few metres in height above the lak ...
: height: 1,920 m, managed from the start of June to October, 80 mattress spaces, winter room with 10 bedspaces, base: Ehrwald, duration from the Ehrwalder Alm (cable car): 2 hours
Long-distance trails
The
Via Alpina
The Via Alpina is a network of five long-distance hiking trails across the alpine regions of Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Monaco. The longest of trails is the red trail, whose termini are in Trieste a ...
, a cross-border long-distance trail with five sections through the whole Alps, runs through the Mieminger Mountains.
The Red Path (''Rote Weg'') of the Via Alpina has two stages running through the range as follows:
* Stage R46 runs from the Reintalanger Hut to the Coburger Hut. The first part of this stage runs through the Wetterstein.
* Stage R47 runs from the Coburger Hut through Biberwier to the Wolfratshauser Hut. The second part of this stage runs through the Lechtal Alps.
References
* Rudolf Wutscher: ''
Alpenvereinsführer
The ''Alpine Club Guides'' (german: Alpenvereinsführer, commonly shortened to ''AV Führer'' or ''AVF'') are the standard series of Alpine guides that cover all the important mountain groups in the Eastern Alps. They are produced jointly by the Ge ...
Mieminger Kette.'' Verlag Rother Ottobrunn, 1989,
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Alpenvereinskarte
Alpine Club maps (german: Alpenvereinskarten, often abbreviated to ''AV-Karten'' i.e. AV maps) are specially detailed maps for summer and winter mountain climbers (mountaineers, hikers and ski tourers). They are predominantly published at a scale o ...
4/2: ''Wetterstein- und Mieminger Gebirge'', 1:25.000
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Mountain ranges of the Alps
Northern Limestone Alps
Mountain ranges of Tyrol (state)
Innsbruck-Land District
Imst District