Bregenz Forest Mountains

Bregenz Forest Mountains

Damülser Mittagsspitze, 2,095 m (6,873 ft)
Highest point
Peak Glatthorn
Elevation 2,134 m (7,001 ft)
Geography

Bregenzerwald region within Austria

Country Austria
State Vorarlberg
Range coordinates 47°16′N 9°53′E / 47.27°N 9.88°E / 47.27; 9.88Coordinates: 47°16′N 9°53′E / 47.27°N 9.88°E / 47.27; 9.88
Parent range Northern Limestone Alps
Bavarian Alps

The Bregenz Forest Mountains,[1] also the Bregenzerwald Mountains (German: Bregenzerwaldgebirge), are a range of the Northern Limestone Alps, named after the town of Bregenz. The Bregenz Forest Mountains are entirely located in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.

Definition

The term Bregenz Forest Mountains refers to the range according to the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (AVE); the term Bregenz Forest, by contrast, refers to a landscape or region which is part of the Bregenzer Ache basin area. As a result, the Bregenz Forest Mountains and the Bregenz Forest are not conterminous.

The Bregenz Forest region also includes the southwestern parts of the Allgäu Alps. On the other hand, the Bregenz Forest Mountains reach, to an extent, into the landscapes of the eastern Rhine Valley, as well as to the Walgau Valley of the Ill River and the Großes Walsertal in the south.

As the range is not geologically uniform, the name is rarely used outside of Alpine literature, is also not used in Vorarlberg state geography and land-use planning and belongs to one of the most disputed mountain groups in the AVE. According to an alternative orographically and hydrologically-oriented mountain range classification (Hubert Trimmel, 1962), the mountains belong to a Rhine Valley–Walgau–Bregenz Forest group.

Geography

The mountain range is part of a landscape arranged in several tiers rising from the Rhine Valley in the west up to the adjacent Lechquellen Mountains. Most of the area is shaped by a Mittelgebirge character with extended forests and Alpine pastures, except for small High Alpine region in the southeast.

Neighbouring ranges

The Bregenz Forest Mountains are bordered by the following other Alpine ranges:

Peaks

Glatthorn
Klippern

The main peaks of the Bregenz Forest Mountains include the following: see Coordinates Bregenz Forest Mountains

Other important and well-known peaks in the Bregenz Forest Mountains (in order of height):

Literature / Maps

References

  1. The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 14, p. 503.

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