The Dachstein Mountains () 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:
Alpenvereinseinteilung der Ostalpen
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* 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
Divisions
The two individual peaks of Grimming and Sarstein were counted as part of the Dachstein range because both have been broken off the Dachstein limestone block, even though they are quite separate from a hydrographic and orographic perspective. This classification appeared as early as 1924 in the ''Moriggl Division'' of the Alps.
Climate
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Mountain ranges of the Alps
Northern Limestone Alps
Mountains of Salzburg (federal state)
Mountain ranges of Styria
Mountains of Upper Austria