The Granatspitze Group is a sub-group of the Central Alps within the Eastern Alps

Eastern Alps

Eastern Alps is the name given to the eastern half of the Alps, usually defined as the area east of the Splügen Pass in eastern Switzerland. North of the Splügen Pass, the Posterior Rhine forms the border, and south of the pass, the Liro river and Lake Como form the boundary line.-Geography:The...

. Together with the Ankogel Group

Ankogel Group

The Ankogel Group is a sub-group of the Central Eastern Alps. Together with the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group, the Schober Group, the Kreuzeck Group, the Granatspitze Group, the Venediger Group, the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserferner Group the Ankogel Group forms the mountain range of...

, the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group

Glockner Group

The Glockner Group is a sub-group of the Austrian Central Alps in the Eastern Alps, and is located in the centre section of the High Tauern on the main chain of the Alps....

, the Schober Group

Schober group

The Schober Group is a sub-range of mountains in the Central Austrian Alps. Most of the range is located inside Hohe Tauern National Park. Its highest peak is Petzeck at ....

, the Kreuzeck Group

Kreuzeck Group

The Kreuzeck Group is a mountain range in Carinthia, Austria, which forms part of the Central Eastern Alps. It may be considered a part of the Hohe Tauern....

, the Venediger Group

Venediger Group

The Venediger Group is a sub-group of the Austrian Central Alps in the Eastern Alps. Together with the Ankogel Group, the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group, the Schober Group, the Kreuzeck Group, the Granatspitze Group, the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserferner Group the Venediger Group forms...

, the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserferner Group, the Granatspitze Group forms the main range known as the High Tauern

Hohe Tauern

The Hohe Tauern or High Tauern are a mountain range on the main chain of the Central Eastern Alps, comprising the highest peaks east of the Brenner Pass. The crest forms the southern border of the Austrian state of Salzburg with Carinthia and East Tyrol, while a small part in the southwest belongs...

. The Granatspitze Group is located in Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 in the federal states of Salzburg and Tyrol. Its highest summit is the Großer Muntanitz,

The Granatspitze Group is located in the central part of the High Tauern. The Felbertauernstraße road is the boundary of the group in the west. The group is rather overshadowed by its more famous neighbours which include the Großglockner

Großglockner

The Grossglockner is, at 3,798 m above sea level, Austria's highest mountain and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass...

 and the Großvenediger

Großvenediger

Großvenediger is generally considered to be Austria's fourth highest mountain...

. The range takes its name from the Granatspitze

Granatspitze

The Granatspitze is the mountain giving its name to the Granatspitze Group in the High Tauern, the Alpine backbone of Austria. This, despite the fact that several peaks in this group are actually higher, for example the Stubacher Sonnblick which is less than a kilometre to the north and two metres...

,

Neighbouring ranges

The Granatspitze Group is bordered by the following other mountain ranges of the Alps:

• Kitzbühel Alps (to the north)
• Glockner Group
  Glockner Group
  The Glockner Group is a sub-group of the Austrian Central Alps in the Eastern Alps, and is located in the centre section of the High Tauern on the main chain of the Alps....
  
   (to the east)
• Schober Group
  Schober group
  The Schober Group is a sub-range of mountains in the Central Austrian Alps. Most of the range is located inside Hohe Tauern National Park. Its highest peak is Petzeck at ....
  
   (to the southeast)
• Villgraten Mountains (to the southwest)
• Venediger Group
  Venediger Group
  The Venediger Group is a sub-group of the Austrian Central Alps in the Eastern Alps. Together with the Ankogel Group, the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group, the Schober Group, the Kreuzeck Group, the Granatspitze Group, the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserferner Group the Venediger Group forms...
  
   (to the west)

Summits

All named three-thousanders (main peaks in the Granatspitze Group):

• Großer Muntanitz 
• Kleiner Muntanitz 
• Oberer Muntanitzpalfen 
• Luckenkogel 
• Stubacher Sonnblick 
• Granatspitze
  Granatspitze
  The Granatspitze is the mountain giving its name to the Granatspitze Group in the High Tauern, the Alpine backbone of Austria. This, despite the fact that several peaks in this group are actually higher, for example the Stubacher Sonnblick which is less than a kilometre to the north and two metres...
  
   
• Vordere Kendlspitze 
• Hintere Kendlspitze 
• Kalser Bärenkopf 
• Gradötz 
• Stellachwand 
• Grauer Schimme 
• Wellachköpfe 
• Äußerer Knappentröger

Source

• Georg Zlöbl: Die Dreitausender Osttirols im Nationalpark Hohe Tauern. Verlag Grafik Zloebl, Lienz-Tristach 2007, ISBN 3-200-00428-2