The Hagen Mountains (german: Hagengebirge) are a subrange of the
Berchtesgaden Alps. They lie mainly in the Austrian state of
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 ...
, the western quarter is in the Bavarian county of
Berchtesgadener Land
Berchtesgadener Land ( Central Bavarian: ''Berchtsgoana Land'') is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the district of Traunstein and by the state of Austria.
History Middle ages and early modern era
The southern ...
.
The steep western flanks of the Hagen lie in
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
and drop in height to the basin of the Berchtesgadener
Königssee
The Königssee is a natural lake in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. Most of the lake is within the Berchtesgaden National Park.
Description
Situated within the Berch ...
.
Geography
The mountain range has an area of about 12 kilometres by 10 kilometres. Its highest peaks are located at its perimeter, its interior peaks being slightly lower. The two highest summits are the
Großes Teufelshorn (2,363 m) south of the
Röth and
Kahlersberg (2,350 m). The Hagen mountains are linked
Steinernes Meer
The Steinernes Meer (literally "Rocky Sea") is a high karst plateau in the Northern Limestone Alps. As one of the nine sub-ranges of the Berchtesgaden Alps the Steinernes Meer belongs partly to Bavaria and partly to Salzburg.
Location
To the no ...
by the ''Teufelshörner'' peaks, and to the Göll massif (
Hoher Göll) via the col of Torrener Joch. In the north the Hagen is bordered by the Bluntau valley, in the east the
Salzach
The Salzach (Austrian: ˆsaltsax ) is a river in Austria and Germany. It is in length and is a right tributary of the Inn, which eventually joins the Danube. Its drainage basin of comprises large parts of the Northern Limestone and Central ...
valley forms a
deeply incised boundary with the
Tennen Mountains. In the south, facing the
Hochkönig
The Hochkönig is a mountain group containing the highest mountain (Mount Hochkönig) in the Berchtesgaden Alps, Salzburgerland, Austria. The Berchtesgaden Alps form part of the Northern Limestone Alps.
Location
It lies to the west of the town ...
massif - the boundary is formed by the , a
side valley
Side valleys and tributary valleys are valleys whose brooks or rivers flow into greater ones.
Upstream, the valleys can be classified in an increasing order which is equivalent to the usual orographic order: the tributaries are ordered from tho ...
of the Salzach. About 25 square kilometres of the Hagen Mountains and about a dozen peaks lie above the
2,000 metre mark, other large areas are a little lower.
Literature
*
Hermann von Barth
Hermann von Barth (5 June 1845 – 7 December 1876) was a famous German mountaineer.
Life and career
Hermann von Barth was born on 5 June 1845 at Eurasburg (Oberbayern), Eurasburg Castle. He initially studied law in Munich, where he was affili ...
: ''Aus den Nördlichen Kalkalpen''. Munich, 1874.
* Österreichischer Alpenverein (publ.): ''Alpenvereinsjahrbuch'', 97th annual, 1972.
* Walter Klappacher, Karl Mais: ''Salzburger Höhlenbuch''. Vol. 3, 1979.
* Ewald Langenscheidt: ''Höhlen und ihre Sedimente in den Berchtesgadener Alpen. Dokumente der Landschaftsentwicklung in den nördlichen Kalkalpen''. Berchtesgaden, 1986.
;Guide:
* Sepp Brandl: ''Rund um Salzburg. Die schönsten Tal- und Höhenwanderungen''. Rother Bergverlag, 2008.
*
;Maps:
* Alpenvereinskarten : Hochkönig, Hagengebirge.
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Berchtesgaden Alps
Berchtesgadener Land
Mountain ranges of Bavaria