page_title: Salzach
section_title: Course
hierarchical_section_title: Salzach / Course
caption_attribution_description: English: The image shows the river Salzach, which forms the border between the German town of Laufen, Bavaria (below and right) and the Austrian town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg (above and left). The camera is pointing roughly northeast. The location of the Europa bridge (built 2007) is within the frame.
context_page_description: The Salzach is a river in Austria and Germany. It is a right tributary of the Inn and is 227 kilometres in length, its flow eventually joins the Danube. Its drainage basin of 6,829 km² comprises large parts of the Northern Limestone and Central Eastern Alps. 83% of its drainage basin lies in Austria, the remainder in Germany. Its largest tributaries are Lammer, Berchtesgadener Ache, Saalach, Sur and Götzinger Achen.
  By international visitors, it is often incorrectly referred to as "Salzburg River". This is probably due to the similarity in the names.
context_section_description: The Salzach is the main river in the Austrian state of Salzburg. The source is located on the edge of the Kitzbühel Alps near Krimml in the western Pinzgau region. Its headstreams drain several alpine pastures at around 2,300 metres (7,500 ft) (metres above the Adriatic), between Krimml and the Tyrolean state border, 3–5 kilometres (2–3 mi) north of the Gerlos Pass on the slopes of the Salzachgeier (2,466 m (8,091 ft)) and the nearby Schwebenkopf peak 2,354 m (7,723 ft)).
  From here, it runs eastwards through a large valley via Bruck south of Lake Zell to Schwarzach im Pongau. It then turns northwards and passes Sankt Johann im Pongau.  North of here, the Salzach forms the narrow Salzachöfen Gorge between the Berchtesgaden Alps and the Tennen Mountains and then flows to Hallein and the city of Salzburg. 
  From the junction with its Saalach tributary in the northern Salzburg basin, the Salzach forms the border between Bavaria, Germany and the Austrian states of Salzburg and Upper Austria for almost 70 kilometres (43 mi). Cities on the banks in this lower section include Laufen and its sister town Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Tittmoning, and Burghausen. All these towns have border crossings.
  The river finally joins the Inn in Haiming between Burghausen and Braunau.
caption: Lower Salzach between Laufen and Oberndorf
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