Hochkönig
Sign in to saveThe Hochkönig is a mountain group containing the highest mountain (Hochkönig) in the Berchtesgaden Alps, Salzburgerland, Austria. The Berchtesgaden Alps form part of the Northern Limestone Alps.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_region, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Berchtesgaden Alps, Mountains of Salzburg (state) and Mountains of the Alps.
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Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Hochkönig
- Mountain.photo
- Hochkoenig.jpg
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 2941
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 2181
- Mountain.prominence_ref
- Ranked 6th in the Alps
- Mountain.listing
- Ultra
- Mountain.translation
- high king
- Mountain.language
- German
- Mountain.map
- Austria
- Mountain.map_caption
- Austria
- Mountain.location
- Salzburg, Austria
- Mountain.range
- Berchtesgaden Alps
- Mountain.topo
- BEV ÖK50 124; ÖAV 10/2
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 1826
- Mountain.easiest_route
- Hike
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 2941
- Image
- Hochkönig 2025 (2).jpg
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- Commons category
- Hochkönig
- topographic prominence
- 2181
- topographic isolation
- 33.9
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The Hochkönig is a mountain group containing the highest mountain (Hochkönig) in the Berchtesgaden Alps, Salzburgerland, Austria. The Berchtesgaden Alps form part of the Northern Limestone Alps.
==Location== It lies to the west of the town of Bischofshofen in the Austrian state of Salzburg, 42 km due south of the city of Salzburg. Hochkönig is separated from the rest of the Berchtesgaden Alps, and more specifically from the Steinernes Meer (stone ocean) by the mountain pass Torscharte at 2246 m. The summit itself is at the southern edge of a large limestone plateau, which is covered by the glacier known as the "Übergossene Alm", however this glacier is currently shrinking at a rate of 6.2% per year, and is likely to vanish in the relatively near future.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hochkönig” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations