Hochgründeck - Panorama view

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The Hochgründeck mountain (1,827 m), the highest elevation of the greywacke zone in the Ore of the Alps UNESCO Global Geopark, is approx. 1,300 meters above the Salzach Valley near Bischofshofen. From the summit, you can see the fascinating Salzburg - Upper Austrian - Styrian mountain landscape with its deeply carved valleys in all its diversity.

At the culmination of the last Ice Age, around 20,000 years ago, the ice of the Salzach Glacier even covered the summit of the Hochgründeck mountain. The ice thickness was approx. 1,300 m! The ice erosion is one reason why the summit, created in the soft shales and phyllites of the graywacke zone, has its present rounded appearance we see today.

From here you can see about 300 Alpine peaks. The northern side is formed by the Northern Calcareous Alps. From west to east, these are the Hochkönig, the Watzmann, the Hagengebirge, the Tennengebirge, the Bischofsmütze, the Gosaukamm and the Dachstein. The crystalline ranges of the Schladminger and Niedere Tauern connect to the east and south-east. The southern silhouette is formed by the main Alpine ridge with the Hohe Tauern, namely crystalline mountain ranges: Ankogel, Sonnblick, Glockner and Venediger Groups.