Petersberg (Flintsbach)

Petersberg seen from Flint creek from

The Peter Berg ( also: Little Madron ) is a mountain in Flintsbach in the Inn Valley. It is 847 meters high and geographically assigned to the Bavarian Alps, where the Mangfallgebirge.

At the top of Peter Berg's are an inn and a church. Both were part of a Benedictine monastery in the Middle Ages, which had been founded by the Counts of Falkenstein. This monastery was in 1997 the subject of a teaching and research excavation of the Institute of Prehistory and Early History and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces of the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. During this excavation, the older settlement periods on the Petersberg and the medieval land development were explored in its environment.

The name derives from the Petersberg was the patron saint of the Church, Saint Peter in the last century. The original name "Little Madron " is used today any more.

At the foot of the Peter Berg can be reached on a forest road from Flint Bach from in about an hour. The path leads to the ruins of the castles sub -Falkenstein and upper -Falkenstein past (Rachel Castle ). In the last ten minutes of the footpath there are 13 pillars with bas-reliefs of the Rosenheim image Hauser Josef Hamberger, representing Jesus Christ and the apostles. The " Apostelweg " ends at a church dedicated to St. Peter as the 14th station. In winter the snow-covered forest road is a popular toboggan run.

Surrounding mountain peaks or day trips to Big Giant Head, the Maiwand, the High Asten, the Rehleitenkopf and Madron.

Inn on the Petersberg in the background of the giant head with Maiwand