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 (2,995 m (AA))
• Grimming (2,351 m above sea level (AA)) in the east to the upper Styrian Enns valley
• Sarstein (1,975 m above sea level (AA)) in the north at the other bank of the River Traun

The Dachstein Mountains are bordered as follows:^[1]

• 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 confluence with the Weißenbach near Haus im Ennstal
• to the southwest by the Roßbrand in the Salzburg Slate Mountains along the line from Weißenbach – Ramsaubach – Schildlehenbach – Kalte Mandling – Warme Mandling – Marcheggsattel – Fritzbach – Linbach – Neubach  to Lungötz in the Lammer valley
• to the west the Lammer valley forms the boundary of the mountains with the Tennengebirge
• to the northwest the Salzkammergut Mountains are separated by a line from Rußbach – Gschütt Pass – Gosaubach – Hallstätter See  to Sankt Agatha

Los dos picos individuales de Grimming y Sarstein se incluyeron en la cordillera de Dachstein porque ambos se desprendieron del bloque de piedra caliza de Dachstein , aunque desde una perspectiva hidrográfica y orográfica están bastante separados . Esta clasificación apareció ya en 1924 en la División de Moriggl de los Alpes.

Vista panorámica del Dachstein con descripción de los picos principales.

Contenido multimedia relacionado con las montañas de Dachstein en Wikimedia Commons.