Name: Birnbachloch Glacier
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Birnbachloch Glacier

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Birnbachloch Glacier

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Location: Leogang, Bezirk Zell am See, Salzburg, Austria

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1. Birnbachloch Glacier – Birnbachloch Natural Monument loop from Leogang

6.95km

02:48

350m

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2. Birnbach Riverbed – Birnbachloch Natural Monument loop from Leogang

9.01km

03:31

470m

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3. Birnbachloch Natural Monument – Birnbach Riverbed loop from Sonnberg

13.2km

04:37

510m

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Tobias ⛰️🏃‍♂️

June 3, 2023

The Birnbachloch is a worthwhile destination, but not suitable for prams. Good walking shoes are a must.

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Anette

August 26, 2022

It is hard to believe that the Munich breweries extracted the ice for their ice cellars from this glacier at the end of the 19th century – it is the lowest in Central Europe. It was transported down the mountain via wooden slides. That would no longer be possible today, because the glacier has melted extremely strongly due to climate change.

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SaRie

May 4, 2017

The Birnbach Glacier just below the Birnbachloch is the lowest glacier in Central Europe. Throughout winter, avalanches slide down from the Birnhorn and form a piled-up glacier within the tree line.

Ice degradation: The snow from these avalanches does not melt off completely in summer, but forms a small “glacier”. From 1884 to around 1900, the Munich ice works quarried up to 1,000 wagons of ice a year to supply the Munich ice cellar from >Birnhornkees<. The ice was blasted out by about 100 mostly local workers in large blocks from shafts and tunnels drilled into the glacier at a depth of two to 15 m and on a wooden slide that led through the Ullachgraben about 1.6 km long into the valley. brought down to the valley with a loud roar that can be heard from afar. Once there, the blocks were loaded onto horse-drawn carriages and finally transported by train to Munich, where they cooled the drinks and food supplies of the inns over the summer. (Source: SalzburgWiki)

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Location: Leogang, Bezirk Zell am See, Salzburg, Austria

Birnbachloch Glacier

1. Birnbachloch Glacier – Birnbachloch Natural Monument loop from Leogang

2. Birnbach Riverbed – Birnbachloch Natural Monument loop from Leogang

3. Birnbachloch Natural Monument – Birnbach Riverbed loop from Sonnberg

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