Geography Of Grundlsee

Grundlsee is a 732-meter-high lake in Ausseerland, in the Styrian Salzkammergut region, on the southern side of the Totes Gebirge. With the Dead Mountains’ slopes on three sides, the community consists of five communities spread over a broad valley along the Grundlsee. With its single opening westward to the Bad Ausseer basin, the valley runs roughly ten kilometers from east to west and one kilometer from north to south.

To the north are Hundskogel, Backenstein, Reichenstein; to the east are Elm, Große Hochkasten, Weiße Wall; and to the south are Turkenkogel, Röthelstein. Standing 2389 meters high, the highest point delineates the border with Upper Austria. With an average elevation of 750 meters, the municipality is made up of around 75% alpine wastelands and the remaining area is made up of woods, grassland, and other terrain.

Largest lake in Styria, Grundlsee is 4.22 km2 and is supplied by the Grundlseer Traun, a parent river of the Traun. Among the water sources it depends on are Stimitz, Zimitzbach, Toplitz, and the Toplitzsees communal drainage stream. Several lakes, including Dreibrüdersee, Elmsee, Henarsee, Kammersee, Lahngangseen, and the Traun’s source waters, are also located in the municipality.

Primarily, limestone and dolomite from Mesozoic seas—more especially, the Triassic and Jurassic periods—make up the Dead Mountains that encircle Grundlsee. Different parts of the municipal territory are dominated by various kinds of limestone. From Grundlsee, towards Bad Aussee, are glacial moraines from the Würm glacial era. Alpine Haselgebirge is the source of the gypsum and anhydrite deposit in Wienern (Gößl), which dates back to the Upper Permian to the Scythian era. When the Würm iced over, the Grundlsee lake basin was a glacier tongue basin.

The settlement cores of Bräuhof, Archkogel, Mosern, and Untertressen in the western portion of the municipality are located on alluvial plains, slope debris areas, and mostly Würm-glacial, occasionally postglacial, ground moraines. The Gößl settlement is centered on a low Pleistocene terrace.