Waxenstein

View from the Hammersbacher meadows

The Waxenstein is a mountain range in the northwestern Wettersteingebirge.

Location

The mountain range rises just south of the leisure resort Grainau, near Garmisch- Partenkirchen.

The Little Waxenstein forms with the sloping steeply to the north-east wall of the Hammerbach Manndls the conclusion of the Waxensteinkammes. The Great Waxenstein, the highest peak of the Waxensteinkammes lies west of it. The distinctive rock summit between the Zwölferkopf. The Mittagsscharte is the conspicuous incision between the Little and the Waxenstein Zwölferkopf.

Northwest of the mountains lies the Eibsee (approximately 970 m above sea level. NN ), the largest mountain lake in the region. At the foot of steep slopes extending in a southerly direction the famous Hell Valley.

Immediately at the end of about five kilometers long valley dominates the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, up. This forms the border to the Austrian Tyrol.

Summit

• Big Waxenstein, first ascent ( 2277 m above sea level. ): H. v. Barth, M. Ostler 1871
• Small Waxenstein, first ascent ( 2136 m above sea level. ): O. Schuster, J. Ostler 1892
• Zwölferkopf ( 2232 m above sea level. NN )
• Lunch Charter ( 2045 m above sea level. NN )
• Manndl (1889 m above sea level. NN )

For inexperienced tourists, there is no way to access the peaks by cable cars and hiking trails.

View from Jubiläumsgrat in foreground Höllentalbahn