Scheffau am Tennengebirge is a municipality in the Hallein district of Salzburg

Salzburg (state)

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Austria

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Geography

The municipality of Scheffau am Tennengebirge lies in the southern Tennengau in Salzburger Land. The River Lammer flows through its territory. Its subordinate parishes are: Unterscheffau, Oberscheffau, Voregg, Wallingwinkl, Weitenau. Its Katastralgemeinden

Katastralgemeinde

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 are Scheffau, Voregg und Weitenau.
The villages lies at the foot of the Tennengebirge

Tennengebirge

The Tennengebirge is a small, but rugged, mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, which lies in front of the Eastern Alps for its entire length. It is a very heavily karstified high plateau, about 60 km² in area, with many caves...

mountain range that rises to a height of 2300m and, in the south, forms the boundary with Pongau. To the north the municipality inclues part of the Ostern Group which is up to 1600m high. The centre of the municipality is in the Lammer valley in Unterscheffau and Oberscheffau.