Zugspitze

The Zugspitze is a top located in the chain of the the Alps, in the solid mass of the Wetterstein, in the Bavarian Alps . It is the culminating point of the Germany, with 2.962 meters. Zugspitze is located exactly on the Austrian border but the culminating point is in Germany. It belongs to the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Zugspitze is located in an area of winter sports and has a small glacier, Schneeferner, which narrowed during the last years because of the Greenhouse effect. Highly tourist site, this top is in particular accessible by the Railroad of Zugspitze and by cable cars, as well on the German side as on the Austrian side. The average temperatures are assembled to -11,2°C in January and 2,0°C in July. The cover of snow reaches on average 385 cm in March.

The first rise

It is the Lieutenant Josef Naus, on mission for the royal Bureau of topography of Bavaria ( Königlich Bairisches Topographisches Bureau , accompanied by the Maier surveyor's assistant and the mountain guide Joh. Georg Deutschl which officially reached the first the top the August 27th 1820. But a former rise by inhabitants of the area is possible, which would have remained anonymous.

The first winter rise was carried out the January 7th 1882 per F. Kilger, H. and J. Zametzer and H. Schwaiger. Whatever the borrowed way, the uneven one of 2.200 meters holds the pedestrian rise of Zugspitze to the trained mountain dwellers.

Weather station of altitude

With the autumn 1898, Adolf Wenz planned the construction of an observatory weather on Zugspitze. This observatory was the result of a co-operation between the weather Institute of Munich and the club alpine Austrians and German ( Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenvereins (DuÖAV) ). Work began in 1899 and the observatory was inaugurated on July 19th 1900 by the royal government of Bavaria. The meteorologist, mountaineer and later researcher in Antartique Josef Enzensperger spent there the winter 1900 like first observer on the new observation station of time.

Separately a short interruption after the end of the Second world war, of the permanent teams of observation take turns in this observatory. Not far from there, Austria maintains an automatic observation station.

Exact altitude

For a long time, the altitude of Zugspitze varied between 2960 and 2970 meters according to the sources. The value of 2 962,06 meters from now on is officially attested by the federal Office of measurement of Bavaria ( Bayerischen Landesvermessungsamt ).

Seen Austria Zugspitze has 27 cm less than in Germany. Indeed Austria still takes as reference the level of Trieste whereas Germany fixes its measurements on the level of Amsterdam.

External bonds

  • Banner page of the Bavarian Company of Zugspitze ('' Bayerischen Zugspitzbahn '' (cable car)
  • Banner page of the Company tyrolienne of Zugspitze ('' Tiroler Zugspitzbahn '')
  • Jubiläumsgrat Zugspitze
  • Höllental Klettersteig auf die Zugspitze
  • Zugspitze on the site Steinmandl.de
  • Zugspitze on the site bergzeit.de
  • Image of an excursion on Reintal
  • Jubiläumsgrat - eine Winterbegehung
  • Description of the rise with curve of profile
  • Research station on the Schneefernerhaus environment on Zugspitzplatt

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