Oberberg - Panorama View

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The farm Oberberg (approx. 1,040 m) is located on a terraced level surface of the Grauwacke zone in the Ore of the Alps UNESCO Global Geopark 500 meters above the Salzach valley floor in the municipality of Bischofshofen. The rocks of the greywacke zone are covered here by till from the Würm Ice Age that is around 20,000 years old. From this vantage point, we attain a magnificent panoramic view of the Hochkönig, Hagen- and Tennengebirge mountains. In the foreground are the gentle peaks of Hochkeil and Jägerköpfl.

The Hochkönig massif belongs geologically to the Northern Calcareous Alps and is mainly built up from mountainous Dachstein limestone. This rock was formed during the Upper Triassic, approximately 200 million years ago, when coral, calcareous sponges and algae formed reefs in a tropical sea. The reef in the area of the Mandlwand is particularly spectacular, a ridge ensemble broken up into towers and columns. The wooded Hochkeil (1,782 m) is part of greywake zone. The summit levels comprise what is known as the Fellersbach formation (Palaeozoic, reddish-purple clay slate and quartzite).