!!!Totes Gebirge

Totes Gebirge mountains: imposing mountain range of the Northern 
Limestone Alps formed mainly by fissured Dachstein limestone and with 
pronounced karst features. The Totes Gebirge Mountains extends for 
1,130 km%%sup 2/% from the Traun valley to the Stoder valley and 
the Windischgarsten basin and stretches out far to the east to the  
Warscheneck Mountains. As the name Totes Gebirge (dead mountains) 
suggests, the whole of the eastern plateau is bleak, with karrens, 
small lakes and almost no vegetation, the lower western part is 
greener and richer in water. The highest elevation of the main part of 
the Totes Gebirge is the  Priel Mountain (2,515 m) lies in Upper 
Austria. Other imposing peaks are: Spitzmauer (2,446 m), 
Schermberg (2,396 m). The Tauplitzalm skiing resort in the Totes 
Gebirge is in part of Styria. Many mountain lakes: the two Oedsee 
lakes, Offensee, Almsee, Wildensee, Elmsee, Lahngangsee lakes, 
Schwarzensee and Steirersee. There are several mountain refuges. In 
the west: Ischler Huette (1,368 m), Lambacher Huette 
(1,432 m), Ebenseer-Hochkogelhuette (1,558 m), 
Wildenseehuette (1,525 m), Albert-Appel-Haus (1638 m); in 
the east: Puehringerhuette on the Elmsee lake (1,637 m), Almtaler 
Haus (714 m), Welser Huette (1,726 m), Prielschutzhaus 
(1,420 m), Hollhaus (1,621 m), Linzer-Tauplitzhaus 
(1,638 m). Villages and holiday resorts situated in the valleys: 
Hinterstoder (Upper Austria); Altaussee, Grundlsee, Goessl, Tauplitz 
(all in Styria). The Totes Gebirge Mountains were made a nature 
reserve in 1991 (by order of the provincial government of Styria). 
Many caves:  Gassl Cave (open to visitors), Schoenberg Ice Cave, etc.


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