Dachstein Mountains

• The Dachstein Massif proper with its highest peak, the Hoher Dachstein
• Grimming in the east to the upper Styrian Enns valley
• Sarstein in the north at the other bank of the River Traun

  Extent

• to the northeast by the Totes Gebirge, which is separated by the line from Sankt Agatha on the Hallstättersee – Pötschenhöhe – Bad Aussee – Kainischtraun – Bad Mitterndorf – Klachau – Grimmingbach to the River Enns
• to the south by the Rottenmanner und Wölzer Tauern and the Niedere Tauern, which are separated by the River Enns, roughly from Untergrimming to its confluence with the Weißenbach near Haus im Ennstal
• to the southwest by the Roßbrand in the Salzburg Slate Mountains along the line from Weißenbach – Ramsaubach – Schildlehenbach – Kalte Mandling – Warme Mandling – Marcheggsattel – Fritzbach – Linbach – Neubach to Lungötz in the Lammer valley
• to the west the Lammer valley forms the boundary of the mountains with the Tennengebirge
• to the northwest the Salzkammergut Mountains are separated by a line from Rußbach – Gschütt Pass – Gosaubach – Hallstätter See to Sankt Agatha

  Divisions

• Hallstättersee and Koppentraun to Sarstein
• from Bad Mitterndorf on the Salzabach including the Salza Reservoir to Grimming – here the Dachstein Glacier has carved out another valley which is drained by the Kainischtraun to the north and the Grimmingbach to the south, and which forms the natural landscape division with the Totes Gebirge. In between the Salza crosses the valley in a curious way, and forms a narrow gorge between Grimming and Kemetgebirge, the eastern edge of the Dachstein plateau.

  Climate