Herzogstand

View from the home garden to the Duke level in winter

The Duke of jurisdiction is a mountain in the Bavarian Alps with 1731 m above sea level. NN northwest of Walchensee. It belongs to the municipality of Kochel am See and forms with its neighbors home garden a ridge, which is upstream of the Estergebirge and falls to the north in the Bavarian foothills of the Alps.

The Duke booth was a so-called Nunatak, so a mountain whose summit stood out about 330 m from the ice stream during the Würm glaciation. The boiler Mountain, the incision between Herzogstandbahn and Jochberg, was a Alpentor; Here flowed a tributary of the Isar- Loisach glacier, which in turn was a tributary of the Inn glacier, passing at an altitude of about 1400 m above sea level.

View of the mountain driving head

The Duke status in 1900

The Wittelsbach built in 1857, below the present Herzogstandbahn house a hunting lodge. King Ludwig II built in 1865 built the so-called royal family. The Herzogstandbahn, 1994 a renewed cable car to ride mountain head to 1627 m. Slightly below the newly built after a fire in 1992 Herzogstandhaus lies in 1575 m height.

The Duke of jurisdiction is one of the famous Munich mountains and is celebrated much with and without cable car support in all seasons.

Transmitter on the summit

The Duke status is used for radio transmission since 1920 - from 1920 to 1934 was Herzogstandbahn a transmitting antenna for long waves attached. Today is 900 meters südöstwärts of Herzogstandbahn Summit on driving head mountain ( 1627 m), the transmitter Herzogstandbahn.

Trails

The shortest ascent ( AV path 446) leads from the south from the valley station of the cable car in the town of Walchensee to Herzogstandhaus and on to the summit (2.5 hours). From the east called the bridle path from the boiler mountain pass summit to Herzogstandhaus leads ( also given 2.5 hours). Much longer and committed rarely is access from the north from Lake Kochel on the Pionierweg. Finally, the summit of the Duke article also from the west is the somewhat exposed, but well secured by the home garden ridge (1790 m) accessible; this popular balancing act is characterized in that it also has a chance of Kochel and Walchensee, the Munich Plain and on the high mountains. If arriving by car, the round trip Walchensee Home Garden Herzogstandbahn - Walchensee offers, when using public transport the excess from Ohlstadt.

Exceeding Home Garden Herzogstandbahn ( but with the much longer ascent from Eschenlohe by the Judental ) is part of the Maximilian pathway and thus also of the European long-distance hiking trail E4. After Kesselberg this path continues over the Jochberg Tutzinger hut at the Benediktenwand. The Via Alpina on these stages coincides with the Maximilansweg.