Obersulzbachkees Glacier

With a length of about 4 kilometers and an area of about 11 km², the glacier is the largest glacier in the Venediger Group and the second largest of the Hohe Tauern after Pasterze. It consists of four large, north-facing firn hollows that extend from the north side of the Großvenediger to the further west part below the Maurerkeeskopf. As a result of the decline in glaciers, these four parts, which previously united below the Kürsingerhütte, now represent four separate glacier areas.
The Obersulzbachkees became famous through Ignaz von Kürsinger, who in his reports of the first ascent of the Großvenediger in 1841 called the ice quarry below the Kürsinger Hütte still known as "Turkish tent city". At this point there is a glacial lake.
The Obersulzbachkees is one of the first glaciers in the Eastern Alps to be mapped. In 1883, Eduard Richter published a map on a scale of 1: 5000 - the first exact glacier map of an Eastern Alpine glacier. Richter attempted to compare the glacier levels of 1880 and 1882.

The Obersulzbachkees is located in the state of Salzburg, north of the main ridge of the Hohe Tauern in the Obersulzbach valley.
With a length of about 4 kilometers and an area of about 11 km², the glacier is the largest glacier in the Venediger Group and the second largest of the Hohe Tauern after Pasterze. It consists of four large, north-facing firn hollows that extend from the north side of the Großvenediger to the further west part below the Maurerkeeskopf. As a result of the decline in glaciers, these four parts, which previously united below the Kürsingerhütte, now represent four separate glacier areas.
The Obersulzbachkees became famous through Ignaz von Kürsinger, who in his reports of the first ascent of the Großvenediger in 1841 called the ice quarry below the Kürsinger Hütte still known as "Turkish tent city". At this point there is a glacial lake.
The Obersulzbachkees is one of the first glaciers in the Eastern Alps to be mapped. In 1883, Eduard Richter published a map on a scale of 1: 5000 - the first exact glacier map of an Eastern Alpine glacier. Richter attempted to compare the glacier levels of 1880 and 1882.

The Obersulzbachkees became known by the first ascent of the Großvenediger in 1841. Especially by Ignaz von Kürsinger.The Obersulzbachkees is one of the strongest melting glaciers. From 1850 until today the glacier tongue has declined sharply. The Turkish tent city has completely disappeared.
At that time this was a strong ice break on the glacier tongue.gen .:
The Obersulzbachkees lies in the province of Salzburg north of the main ridge of the Hohe Tauern.