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18-543: It is from 400 m (1,300 ft) to 2 km (1.2 mi) wide and about 18 km (11 mi) long, with an elevation between 450 and 455 m (1,476 and 1,493 ft) above sea level. It is situated in the larger Klagenfurt Basin of the Central Eastern Alps and extends along the Glan River from north of Klagenfurt to Sankt Veit an der Glan . The plain is confined by surrounded by four prominent peaks of

36-725: The Liechtenstein shore of the Rhine in the west as far as to the lower promontories east of the river Mur including the Hochwechsel in Austrian Styria . The valleys of the rivers Inn , Salzach and Enns mark their northern boundary, the Drau river (roughly corresponding to the Periadriatic Seam ) their southern border. In the proposed SOIUSA system, the "Central-eastern Alps" include

54-801: The Northern Limestone Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps , from which they differ in geological composition. The term "Central Eastern Alps" may also be used more broadly to refer to a larger area of the Eastern Alps , mainly located in Austria , extending from the foot of the Bergamasque Alps at Lake Como and the Bernina Range in the Graubünden canton of eastern Switzerland along

72-785: The Pannonian Basin . This fracture zone exhibits active volcanism (e.g. in the Styrian thermal region). The Central Eastern Alps also comprise the following ranges of the West Eastern Alps according to AVE classification, which geologically belong to the Southern Alps and are also subsumed under the Western Limestone Alps division.: The Ortler Alps as well as the Sobretta-Gavia Group are also sometimes classified with

90-846: The Rhaetian Alps , of which the Bernina Range includes the 4,049-meter Piz Bernina in Switzerland, the easternmost 4,000-meter peak of the Alps. In the AVE system, however, the full list of mountain groups in the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps includes the Bernina and neighboring ranges within the Western Limestone Alps, not the Central Eastern Alps as the Alpine Club defines them. In Austria,

108-626: The Southern Calcareous Alps , are the ranges of the Eastern Alps south of the Central Eastern Alps mainly located in northern Italy and the adjacent lands of Austria and Slovenia . The distinction from the Central Alps, where the higher peaks are located, is based on differences in geological composition. The Southern Limestone Alps extend from the Sobretta - Gavia range in Lombardy in

126-557: The main chain of the Eastern Alps in Austria and the adjacent regions of Switzerland , Liechtenstein , Italy and Slovenia . South of them is the Southern Limestone Alps . The term "Central Alps" is very common in the Geography of Austria as one of the seven major landscape regions of the country. "Central Eastern Alps" is usually used in connection with the Alpine Club classification of

144-570: The Central Alps – unlike the case in the Western Alps. The aforementioned granite intruded near the fracture zone of the Periadriatic Seam . The Western Alps do not have this division into the Northern Limestone Alps , Central Alps and Southern Limestone Alps . The Austroalpine submerges itself at the eastern edge of the Alps under the Tertiary sediments of the Alpine Foreland in the east and

162-780: The Central Alps, because they lie north of the geological fault of the Periadriatic Seam; in a general regional geographic sense, however, they are seen as part of the Southern Limestone Alps , because they are found south of the longitudinal trough Veltlin (Adda)– Vintschgau (Etsch). Also in terms of rock, the Ortler main crest is part of the Southern Limestone Alps. [REDACTED] Media related to Central Eastern Alps at Wikimedia Commons Southern Limestone Alps The Southern Limestone Alps ( Italian : Alpi Sud-orientali , German : Südliche Kalkalpen ), also called

180-525: The Eastern Alps ( Alpenvereinseinteilung , AVE). The Central Alps form the eastern part of the Alpine divide , its central chain of mountains, as well as those ranges that extend or accompany it to the north and south. The highest mountain in the Austrian Central Alps is Grossglockner at 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The Central Alps have the highest peaks of the Eastern Alps, and are located between

198-943: The Eastern Alps are divided into the Northern Alps , the Greywacke zone , the Central Alps and the Southern Alps . The latter lie partly in South Carinthia , but mainly in Northeast Italy . The Central and Northern Alps are separated by the Northern Longitudinal Trough ( nördliche Längstalfurche ), the line Klostertal – Arlberg – Inn Valley– Salzach Valley as far as Lake Zell – Wagrain Heights–Upper Enns Valley– Schober Pass – Mürz Valley Alps– Semmering –southern Vienna Basin . The Central Alps and Southern Alps are separated from one another by

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216-715: The Roman cemetery in Virunum. Following the Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps about 600, the Karnburg ( Krnski grad ) fortress became the center of the Principality of Carantania , which about 740 was vassalized by Duke Odilo of Bavaria . With Bavaria, a part of the Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne from 788 onwards, a Kaiserpfalz at Karnburg was erected about 830. It remained

234-638: The Southern Longitudinal Valley ( südlichen Längstalzug ) Puster Valley ( Rienz Valle– Toblach Field–upper Drava ( Drau ) Valley)–Drava Valley– Klagenfurt Basin– Meža ( Mieß ), or the Periadriatic Seam, which is not entirely identical with the Southern Longitudinal Trough. The range has the highest summits in the Eastern Alps and is the most glaciated . In the transition zone between the East and West Alps, its peaks clearly dominate

252-908: The administrative center after the Duchy of Carinthia had been split off Bavaria in 976. Inside the castle was a meeting place, where the Prince's Stone , the base of an ancient Roman Ionic column , stood and the Dukes of Carantania were installed . Near Maria Saal stands the Duke's Chair , where the newly installed dukes distributed their land among the vassals. 46°43′20″N 14°22′11″E  /  46.72222°N 14.36972°E  / 46.72222; 14.36972 Central Eastern Alps The Central Eastern Alps (German: Zentralalpen or Zentrale Ostalpen ), also referred to as Austrian Central Alps (German: Österreichische Zentralalpen ) or just Central Alps , comprise

270-668: The basin: the Ulrichsberg (1,022 m; 3,353 ft) in the south and the Magdalensberg (1,059 m; 3,474 ft) in the east as well as the Gößeberg (1,171 m; 3,842 ft) and the Lorenziberg in the north (971 m; 3,186 ft). Since about 500 years the mountains are stops on the annual Vierbergelauf procession celebrated on second Friday after Easter . The oldest archaeological findings at Magdalensberg originate from

288-639: The region to the west ( Piz d'Err , Piz Roseg ). On the perimeter, however, there are also less high, often less rugged mountain chains, like the Gurktal Alps and the eastern foothills. The Eastern Alps is separated from the Western Alps by a line from Lake Constance to Lake Como along the Alpine Rhine valley and via the Splügen Pass . The Central Alps consist mainly of the gneiss and slate rocks of

306-460: The time of Hallstatt culture (8th to 6th centuries BCE). The area was the cultural and political centre of the Celtic kingdom and the later Roman province of Noricum , when under the rule of Emperor Claudius (41–54 AD) the city of Virunum was established as the province's capital, replacing - or maybe identical with - ancient Noreia . Since 2015 archaeological excavations have been carried out in

324-552: The various Austroalpine nappes (Lower and Upper Austroalpine), with the exception of the Hohe Tauern and Engadine windows , where they are composed mostly of Jurassic rock and limestones and, locally, ( Bergell and Rieserferner ) also of granite . The Austroalpine nappes are thrusted over the Penninic nappe stack . Massifs of autochthonous , crystalline rock , which hardly moved at all during Alpine folding , do not occur in

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