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Text: Kurzthaler, Mussnig Design: www.designundkonzept.at Translation: Sprachen Service Schatz, Klagenfurt Stand: 2013 Financed through National Park funds of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environmental and Water Management and the provinces of Carinthia, Salzburg and Tyrol nach Innsbruck / München nach Salzburg / München zur Tauernautobahn nach Salzburg / Villach / Wien Rettenstein Gaisstein St.Veit St.Johann NORDTIROL + 2366 + 2363 Hochkogel Schmittenhöhe im Pongau im Pongau + 2249 + 1965 Stuhlfelden ZELL am See Salzachgeier Paß Thurn Schwarzach + 2469 Goldegg Stuhlfelden Piesendorf Taxenbach im Pongau NP-Besucherzentren / Verwaltung Bramberg Uttendorf Nationalpark-Gemeinden am Wildkogel Schüttdorf Lend ins Zillertal / Inntal Neukirchen MITTERSILL Bruck Nationalpark-Einrichtungen Wald Hollersbach Niedernsill Königsleiten im Pinzgau am Großvenediger Nationalparkzentrum Kaprun an der Glocknerstraße Bundesbahn im Pinzgau Mittersill PONGAU Autobahn P INZGAU Hauptverbindungsstraße Gerlos Paß Fusch Dorfgastein Rauris Großarl Landesstraße Krimml an der Glocknerstraße Fahrweg - nicht öffentl. SALZBURG Mosermandl Draugstein Nationalparkgrenze + 2358 m + 2680 m Kitzsteinhorn Landesgrenze ZILLERTALER Staatsgrenze Larmkogel + 3203 Hoher Tenn ALPEN + 3368 + 3022 Schwarzkopf Bad Hofgastein Tauernkogel G. Wiesbachhorn + 2765 Hüttschlag Weißeck + 2988 + 2711 m Tauernautobahn Reichenspitze + 3564 Zederhaus + 3303 VENEDIGER GRUPPE Felbertauernstraße Edlenkopf Murtörl Granatspitze Edelweißspitze + 2923 2260 m LUNGAU Rainbachspitze Großvenediger + 3086 + 2572 + 3129 m + 3666 GLOCKNER GRUPPE Bad Gastein Großer Geiger Großglockner Hochalpenstraße Arlscharte Muhr Rauchkofel + 3360 2252 Weißspitze Hochtor Böckstein + 3251 Muntanitz Großglockner 2504 Hocharn Kolm Saigurn Dreiherrenspitze + 3300 + 3254 Hafner + 3499 + 3232 + 3798 Hoher Eicham GRANAT- + 3076 Hoher Sonnblick Ankogel + 3371 SPITZ + 3106 Tauernschleuße GRUPPE Schareck Gamskarspitze + 3252 HAFNER GRUPPE Rötspitze + 3123 + 2883 ANKOGEL GRUPPE + 3495 Nationalparkhaus Heiligenblut GOLDBERGGRUPPE Hochalmspitze Matrei Prägraten Virgen Maresenspitz + 3360 Rennweg am Großvenediger Apriach Klamml Joch MATREI Kals + 2913 2298 m in Osttirol am Großglockner BIOS Nationalparkzentrum Lasörling Hornkopf GROSSKIRCHHEIM Keeseck + 3098 + 3251 Mallnitz Mallnitz + 3173 Tristenspitze LASÖRLING GRUPPE Gr.Zunig SCHOBER GRUPPE + 2929 + 2776 Petzeck Reißeck Hochschober + 3283 Sadnig RIESERFERNER + 3242 + 2965 Malta GRUPPE Huben + 2745 KÄRNTEN Hochgall Außerfragant Obervellach + 3436 St.Veit Hopfgarten Mörtschach St.Jakob in Defereggen in Defereggen Gmünd Naturpark in Defereggen Schleinitz Polinik St.Johann + 2905 Stall + 2784 Rieserferner- Reißeck Ahrn Staller Sattel Weiße Spitze im Walde Trebesing + 2962 TIROL Schlaiten Ainet Winklern Rotstein Mühldorf + 2702 Oberlienz Nußdorf- Rangersdorf SÜDTIROL O STTIROL Debant Iselsberg- Kreuzeck + 2701 Möllbrücke Gölbner Stronach + 2943 LIENZ Dölsach O B ERKÄRNTEN Sachsenburg Innervillgraten Leisach Tristach Seeboden Millstatt Assling Amlach Nikolsdorf Baldramsdorf Außervillgraten Anras Lavant Lind SPITTAL Pustertal Thal Sandspitze Kleblach im Drautal an der Drau ITALIA nach Sillian / Bozen / Verona Spitzkofel nach Spittal a.d.Drau nach Villach / Klagenfurt / Graz + 2717 + 2770 Our National Park A Trip into the National Park Fascination in white With a surface area of 1,856 square A walking tour which starts in the The Rangers of the Hohe Tauern Complete silence and the spell of kilometres, the Hohe Tauern National valley an leads up into the mountains National Park are highly experienced an undisturbed nature, only accompanied Park is by far the largest nature is equivalent to a 4,000 km journey to well trained. An extensive programme by a soft crunching noise at each step, reserve in the entire Alpine region. the Arctic. of fi eld trips offers the best walking will revive a long-forgotten awareness The National Park is home to 10,000 tours and list of destinations for anyone of life. A human being once more varieties of animals and 1,500 with an interest innatural history. encounters nature in its pristine sense varieties of plants; it accommodates The range of what’s on offer stretches and in the process fi nds an oasis of numerous glaciers, glacial streams, from half-day walking tours to tours peace in the hustle and bustle of every- high-alpine lakes and tarns and of several days in the high mountains, day life. Both the head and body can offers impressive mountain pan- General Information with wildlife observation, identifi ying take time out. oramas. This large alpine nature www.hohetauern.com plants, meteorology, risk assessment In contrast to skiing or snowboarding, reserve is characterised by a huge guided tours and visitor centers and much more. In this way you will be snowshoe walking is easily learnt by diversity of habitats. www.nationalparkerlebnis.at able to enjoy this experience. everybody, no matter how old. 35% mountain pasture The protection of the cultivated landscape is one component of Over 300 giants conservation philosophy. The mountain hay meadows and The Hohe Tauern region is mountain pastures, so rich in the roof of Austria. With the different species, are extremely country’s highest mountain - valuable, endangered throughout Grossglockner, which reaches the Alps and are increasingly to 3,798 m above sea level, disappearing. Not so in the Hohe more than 300 other peaks Tauern National Park! tower over 3,000 m into the sky. Our Skyline Our Culture is a Sea of 3000 metre Peaks has been shaped through living Side by Side The Cradle of Alpinism For the Edifi cation of the People Land Shaped by the Farmer’s Hand National Park is an eldorado of enjoy- able walks in the midst of a landscape The cradle of mountaineering is The natural wonders of the National For 5,000 years, man has been settled natural landscapes, but also cultivated for which man has always felt affection, located in the Hohe Tauern: Park especially reveal themselves permanently in the valleys of the Hohe landscapes created by farmers, lie despite the most strenuous labour, and as far back as 1761, the 3,251 m high to mountain-lovers on its hundreds of Tauern. It was the search for ores which within the protected area. which he has always needed in order to Ankogel became the fi rst glacier- kilometres of hiking trails, ranging from once led him here. In the course of survive. Mountain hay meadows in their covered Alpine peak to be climbed. contemplative valley paths to high many centuries, wide mountain pasture Not only an extraordinary variety of full fl owering glory, strong, healthy Today climbers can scale the Alpine trekking routes. The National landscapes came into being high above animal and plant species, but also domestic animals, delicious products mountainous world of rock and ice Park visitors’ programmes offer the forest line, grazed on by domestic an abundance of profane and sacred from mountain pastures, Alpine huts via innumerable routes - preferably participants a very special experience animals and painstakingly cultivated by cultural treasures of farming life are the and chapels, crystalclear air and the accompanied by a state-certifi ed of nature. Our team of specially trained the hard-working hands of farmers. result of this long-standing symbiosis complete seclusion convey an archaic mountain and skiing guide from the National Park staff is at your disposal One special feature of the Hohe Tauern between wild nature and the cultivated picture of a landscape where it is National Park region. on these programmes. National Park is that not only purely landscape. The outer zone of the certainly rewarding to linger a while. Our Rush-Hour has already lasted Millions of Years... Our Master Builders Treasures of the Ice Mountains were Fire and Ice Although the glaciers of the Alps have been retreating for decades, the Hohe Tauern region still retains impressive The Tauern Window treasures from the ice mountains today: such as the Pasterze Glacier - which, with The “Tauern Window” is a geological a length of 9 km and an area of almost sensation: the highest mountains of the 180 km2 19 km2, is the biggest single glacier in Hohe Tauern consist of rock strata which form 2 Austria. Or the Grossvenediger Mountain, the lowest geological layers in the Alps. Almost 180 km of the National which is crusted with the ice of the largest In addition, there are four massive gneiss Park - almost 10 % connected glacial area in the Eastern Alps. cores at the centre of this “geological of its area - are still window”. Moulded from liquid magma, today covered by glacial they form such famous peaks as the Gross- ice today. venediger or the Hoher Sonnblick. After fi re, A Landscape in Metamorphosis ice then became the formative force in the Where glaciers have retreated, a fast- Hohe Tauern, as during the ice ages the Alpine changing landscape comes into being: glaciers extended over a much larger