Niedere Tauern#

Niedere Tauern Mountains, part of the central Alpine massif between the Rivers Enns and Mur/Mura from the Murtoerl Pass to the Schobersattel Pass, northeastern prolongation of the Hohe Tauern Range; they are divided into Radstaedter, Schladminger, Woelzer, Rottenmanner Tauern mountains and the Seckauer Alps. The western part is situated in the province of Salzburg and forms the border between the Lungau und Pongau regions, and a small part of the Salzburg/Styrian border. The main part of the Niedere Tauern Mountains belongs to Styria. Today, an unglaciated mountain range mainly consisting of gneiss and micaceous schist, in the Ice Age heavily glacierized; numerous small glacial tarns. Highest peak: Hochgolling mountain (alt. 2,862 m) at the Styrian/Salzburg border. Passes: Soelk Pass (alt. 1,788 m), Triebener Tauern Pass (alt. 1,278 m), Radstaedter Tauern Pass (alt. 1,738 m) and the Tauernautobahn highway. Sparsely populated range with forestry and alpine farming, tourism (skiing area). Magnesite and graphite deposits at the northeastern edge. (Sunk and Trieben mountains).