Torsäule
Sign in to saveThe Torsäule () is a very steep, about 500-metre-high limestone formation on the eastern flank of the Hochkönig massif in the Berchtesgaden Alps.
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- Torsäule
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- The Torsäule from the west
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- Hochkönig, Berchtesgaden Alps
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- Salzburg, Austria
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- Austria
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- 1882 by Anton von Posselt-Czorich and J. Aigner
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- East flank (II)
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- 324x300px|The Torsäule seen from the Gamsleitenkopf. Behind: the [[Schoberköpfe]]The Torsäule seen from the Gamsleitenkopf. Behind: the Schoberköpfe
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The Torsäule () is a very steep, about 500-metre-high limestone formation on the eastern flank of the Hochkönig massif in the Berchtesgaden Alps.
The imposing column (Torsäule means "gateway column"), which bears a summit cross, lies immediately north of the ascent route to the Hochkönig from the Arthurhaus, a thousand metres below, and measures about 500 × 200 metres at its base. In an east-west direction it looks like a giant column, but on reaching the high plateau of the Übergossene Alm it slowly disappears below the local horizon.