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25-623: The peak is situated slightly south the main ridge of the Central Eastern Alps and the Alpine divide . It actually consists of two pinnacles, the Schneeige Hochalmspitze and the higher Apere ("snowless") Hochalmspitze with the summit cross. It has glaciers on its eastern and southern sides. The neighbouring Großelendkopf peak, at 3,317 m (10,883 ft), today counts as a separate mountain. Like most of

50-680: Is a river in Switzerland , Austria and Germany . The 518 km (322 mi) long river is a right tributary of the Danube , being the third largest tributary of the Danube by discharge. The highest point of its drainage basin is the summit of Piz Bernina at 4,049 m (13,284 ft). The Engadine , the valley of the En, is the only Swiss valley whose waters end up in the Black Sea (via

75-550: Is named after the river ( Romansh Engiadina ; Latin vallis Eniatina ). Shortly after it leaves its source, the Inn flows through the largest lakes on its course, Lake Sils and Lake Silvaplana . It runs north-eastwards, entering Austria, and from Landeck eastwards through the Austrian state of Tyrol and its capital, Innsbruck ( bridge over the Inn ), and crosses the border into Bavaria near Kufstein . On Bavarian territory

100-761: The Liechtenstein shore of the Rhine in the west as far as to the lower promontories east of the river Mur including the Hochwechsel in Austrian Styria . The valleys of the rivers Inn , Salzach and Enns mark their northern boundary, the Drau river (roughly corresponding to the Periadriatic Seam ) their southern border. In the proposed SOIUSA system, the "Central-eastern Alps" include

125-853: The Northern Limestone Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps , from which they differ in geological composition. The term "Central Eastern Alps" may also be used more broadly to refer to a larger area of the Eastern Alps , mainly located in Austria , extending from the foot of the Bergamasque Alps at Lake Como and the Bernina Range in the Graubünden canton of eastern Switzerland along

150-831: The Pannonian Basin . This fracture zone exhibits active volcanism (e.g. in the Styrian thermal region). The Central Eastern Alps also comprise the following ranges of the West Eastern Alps according to AVE classification, which geologically belong to the Southern Alps and are also subsumed under the Western Limestone Alps division.: The Ortler Alps as well as the Sobretta-Gavia Group are also sometimes classified with

175-892: The Rhaetian Alps , of which the Bernina Range includes the 4,049-meter Piz Bernina in Switzerland, the easternmost 4,000-meter peak of the Alps. In the AVE system, however, the full list of mountain groups in the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps includes the Bernina and neighboring ranges within the Western Limestone Alps, not the Central Eastern Alps as the Alpine Club defines them. In Austria,

200-573: The main chain of the Eastern Alps in Austria and the adjacent regions of Switzerland , Liechtenstein , Italy and Slovenia . South of them is the Southern Limestone Alps . The term "Central Alps" is very common in the Geography of Austria as one of the seven major landscape regions of the country. "Central Eastern Alps" is usually used in connection with the Alpine Club classification of

225-624: The 16th century, for example in the Tyrolian Landreim of 1557, and since the 18th century this spelling and pronunciation with a short vowel has been customary. The mentions in Roman times refer to the lower course. The Tyrolean section was first called Aenus by Venantius Fortunatus in the 6th century. The name Engadin and the Romansh name En indicate that the upper reaches of the river have always been called this way. Even though it

250-588: The Black Sea (via the Danube). The average discharge at the mouth of the Inn is 735 m /s (26,000 cu ft/s). On 3 June 2013 the discharge of the Inn in Passau reached 6,820 m /s (241,000 cu ft/s) and the water levels reached 12.85 m (42.2 ft), the highest recorded historic flood level since 1501. The historic centre of Passau, where the Danube , Inn and Ilz converge,

275-649: The Central Alps – unlike the case in the Western Alps. The aforementioned granite intruded near the fracture zone of the Periadriatic Seam . The Western Alps do not have this division into the Northern Limestone Alps , Central Alps and Southern Limestone Alps . The Austroalpine submerges itself at the eastern edge of the Alps under the Tertiary sediments of the Alpine Foreland in the east and

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300-731: The Central Alps, because they lie north of the geological fault of the Periadriatic Seam; in a general regional geographic sense, however, they are seen as part of the Southern Limestone Alps , because they are found south of the longitudinal trough Veltlin (Adda)– Vintschgau (Etsch). Also in terms of rock, the Ortler main crest is part of the Southern Limestone Alps. [REDACTED] Media related to Central Eastern Alps at Wikimedia Commons Inn (river) The Inn ( Latin : Aenus ; Romansh : En )

325-410: The Danube). The name Inn is derived from the old Celtic words en and enios , meaning water . In a document of 1338, the river was named Wasser (German for water). The first written mention from the years 105 to 109 (Publii Corneli Taciti historiarium liber tertius) reads: " ... Sextilius Felix... ad occupandam ripam Aeni fluminis, quod Raetos Noricosque interfluit, missus... " ("... Sextilius Felix

350-486: The Eastern Alps ( Alpenvereinseinteilung , AVE). The Central Alps form the eastern part of the Alpine divide , its central chain of mountains, as well as those ranges that extend or accompany it to the north and south. The highest mountain in the Austrian Central Alps is Grossglockner at 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The Central Alps have the highest peaks of the Eastern Alps, and are located between

375-981: The Eastern Alps are divided into the Northern Alps , the Greywacke zone , the Central Alps and the Southern Alps . The latter lie partly in South Carinthia , but mainly in Northeast Italy . The Central and Northern Alps are separated by the Northern Longitudinal Trough ( nördliche Längstalfurche ), the line Klostertal – Arlberg – Inn Valley– Salzach Valley as far as Lake Zell – Wagrain Heights–Upper Enns Valley– Schober Pass – Mürz Valley Alps– Semmering –southern Vienna Basin . The Central Alps and Southern Alps are separated from one another by

400-714: The High Tauern, the Hochalmspitze massif is formed of granite and gneiss , and many unusual rock formations can be found on its slopes. The mountain lies at the Eastern end of the range. In the northwest, a ridge connects it to Großer Ankogel , the third highest peak in its group, and to the Kölnbrein Dam . In the south, the Mallnitz Ridge leads to the neighbouring Reisseck Group . From the summit,

425-561: The Inn finally enters the Danube (as does the river Ilz there). Although the Inn has a greater average flow than the Danube when they converge in Passau, and its watershed contains the Piz Bernina, the highest point in the Danube watershed, the Inn is considered a tributary of the Danube, which has a greater length, drains a larger surface area, and has a more consistent flow. The Inn is the only river originating in Switzerland that ends in

450-666: The Southern Longitudinal Valley ( südlichen Längstalzug ) Puster Valley ( Rienz Valle– Toblach Field–upper Drava ( Drau ) Valley)–Drava Valley– Klagenfurt Basin– Meža ( Mieß ), or the Periadriatic Seam, which is not entirely identical with the Southern Longitudinal Trough. The range has the highest summits in the Eastern Alps and is the most glaciated . In the transition zone between the East and West Alps, its peaks clearly dominate

475-663: The region to the west ( Piz d'Err , Piz Roseg ). On the perimeter, however, there are also less high, often less rugged mountain chains, like the Gurktal Alps and the eastern foothills. The Eastern Alps is separated from the Western Alps by a line from Lake Constance to Lake Como along the Alpine Rhine valley and via the Splügen Pass . The Central Alps consist mainly of the gneiss and slate rocks of

500-553: The river runs northwards and passes Rosenheim , Wasserburg am Inn , and Waldkraiburg ; then it turns east, runs through Mühldorf and Neuötting and is enlarged by two major tributaries, the Alz and the Salzach . From here to the Danube , it forms the border between Germany (Bavaria) and Austria ( Upper Austria ). Towns on this last section of the river are Marktl am Inn , Simbach on Inn , Braunau am Inn and Schärding . In Passau

525-637: The southeastern slope at a height of 2,215 m (7,267 ft). In the 1970s plans for a glacier ski resort were developed, but finally abandoned in 1988 when the Austrian Alpine Club was able to purchase large parts of the area. This Carinthia location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Central Eastern Alps The Central Eastern Alps (German: Zentralalpen or Zentrale Ostalpen ), also referred to as Austrian Central Alps (German: Österreichische Zentralalpen ) or just Central Alps , comprise

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550-563: The various Austroalpine nappes (Lower and Upper Austroalpine), with the exception of the Hohe Tauern and Engadine windows , where they are composed mostly of Jurassic rock and limestones and, locally, ( Bergell and Rieserferner ) also of granite . The Austroalpine nappes are thrusted over the Penninic nappe stack . Massifs of autochthonous , crystalline rock , which hardly moved at all during Alpine folding , do not occur in

575-634: The views stretch as far as the Salzburg Alps, the Dolomites and the Julian Alps . The first official ascent was made in 1859 by the Austrian mountaineer Paul Grohmann , although letters found in 2010 bring this claim into disrepute, as the mountain may have first been climbed four years earlier. In 1913 a mountain hut ( Gießener Hütte ) was erected by the German and Austrian Alpine Club on

600-741: Was occasionally believed that the Inn originated near the Adige at the Reschen Pass , since the 16th century at the latest the origin has been seen uniformly in the area of the lakes at the Maloja Pass . A connection may exist between the name Inn and the name of the French river Ain . The source of the Inn is located in the Swiss Alps , west of St. Moritz in the Engadine region, which

625-624: Was sent to capture the banks of the Inn, which flows between the Rhaetian people and the Noric people.") The river is also mentioned by other authors of the Roman Empire as Ainos (Greek) or Aenus (Latin). In medieval Latin it was written as Enus or Oenus . The change in the old Bavarian language from e to i turned Enus to In . Until the 17th century, it was written like this or Yn , but also Ihn or Yhn . The double-n appeared only in

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