Stadelhorn

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Reiter Alm The Reiter Alpe (also ''Reiter Alm'' or ''Reither Steinberge'') is a mountain range of the Berchtesgaden Alps, named after the village Reit. it is located on the German–Austrian border in Bavaria, Germany, and Salzburg, Austria Austria, ...

Berchtesgaden Alps The Berchtesgaden Alps (, ) are a mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps, named after the market town of Berchtesgaden located in the centre. It is crossed by the Austria–Germany border: the central part belongs to the Berchtesgadener Lan ...

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Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

Salzburg Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps moun ...

, map = Germany Bavaria , map_image = , coordinates = {{coord, 47.59333, N, 12.79583, E, type:mountain_region:DE-BY/AT-5_scale:100000, format=dms, display=inline,title , range_coordinates = , coordinates_ref = , first_ascent = touristically by Karl Thurwieser in 1825 , easiest_route = Western arête from the Mayrberg gap ( I, marked) The Stadelhorn (2,286 m) is the highest and most prominent peak in the

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. The Stadelhorn is a popular, but rather exposed hiking summit. The view from the top extends from the

Untersberg The Untersberg is the northernmost massif of the Berchtesgaden Alps, a prominent spur straddling the border between Berchtesgaden, Germany and Salzburg, Austria. The highest peak of the Table (landform), table-top mountain is the Berchtesgadener ...

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Hochkalter At ,According to information from the Bavarian Survey Office (''Bayerischen Landesvermessungsamt'') in 2008, the exact height is 2,606.9 m. The figure of 2,606 m given on many maps is due to the decimal place being deleted without rounding t ...

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Watzmann The Watzmann () is a mountain in the Berchtesgaden Alps south of the village of Berchtesgaden. It is the third highest in Germany, and the highest located entirely on German territory. Three main peaks array on a N-S axis along a ridge on the ...

over the

Leoganger Steinberge The Leogang MountainsLichtenberger, Elisabeth (2000). ''Austria: society and regions'', Austrian Academy of Sciences, p. 173. . (, lit. "Leogang Rock Mountains") are a mountain range in Austria in the state of Salzburg and form part of the Nor ...

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Loferer Steinberge The Lofer Mountains or Loferer MountainsHeuss, Theodor (1955). ''Preludes to life: early memoirs'', University of Michigan, p. 143. (, lit. "Lofer Rock Mountains") are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps in the Eastern Alps of central ...

to the

Sonntagshorn The Sonntagshorn, at 1,961 metres above sea level, is the highest mountain in the Chiemgau Alps. The international border between Germany and Austria, and hence between the states of Bavaria and Salzburg Salzburg is the List of citie ...

as well as large parts of the Lower

Saalach The Saalach is a river in Austria and Germany, and a left tributary of the Salzach. Course The river begins, as the stream, in the Austrian state of Tyrol in the Kitzbühel Alps at the lake below the high Gamshag. From there it flows ini ...

valley. In addition, on clear days, the Stadelhorn offers a view from the Großer Priel in the east over the

Dachstein Hoher Dachstein () is a strongly karstic mountain in central Austria and the second-highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. It is situated at the border of Upper Austria and Styria, and is the highest point in each of those states. Par ...

and the

High Tauern The High Tauern (plural, pl.; , ) are a mountain range on the Main chain of the Alps, main chain of the Central Eastern Alps, comprising the highest peaks east of the Brenner Pass. The crest forms the southern border of the Austrian states of Salz ...

- including the

Großglockner The Großglockner ( ), or just Glockner, is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), the highest mountain in Austria and highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It is part of the larger Glockner Group of the Hohe Tauer ...

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Großvenediger Großvenediger () is the main peak of the Venediger Group within the Hohe Tauern mountain range, on the border of the Austrian state of Tyrol (East Tyrol) with Salzburg. It is generally considered to be Austria's fourth highest mountain (although ...

- to Germany's highest peak, the

Zugspitze The Zugspitze ( , ; ), at above Normalhöhennull, sea level, is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains and the highest mountain in Germany. It lies south of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, and the Austria–Germany border ...

, in the west. At the foot of the Stadelhorn on the Austrian side are the villages of St. Martin b. Lofer,

Lofer Lofer is a market town in the district of Zell am See in the Austrian state of Salzburg. Geography Lofer is located in the historic Pinzgau region, in the valley of the Saalach river between the Chiemgau Alps and Reiter Alpe in the north and eas ...

and the parish of

Unken Unken is a municipality in the district of Zell am See (Pinzgau region), in the state of Salzburg in Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federat ...

; on the Bavarian side is the Klausbach valley and the Hintersee lake. The normal route to the top of the Stadelhorn runs along the western arête (''Westgrat'') beginning at the Mayrberg gap (''Mayrbergscharte, 2055 m''). From here there are various options: Direct climbs: * along the Loferer Steig (path) from the Austrian side. * along the Schaflsteig (path) from the Bavarian side (Engert Alm). Ascents via the Roßkar gap (''Roßkarscharte'') and the upper Wagendrischel cirque (''Wagendrischelkar''): * from the Neue Traunsteiner Hut along the Roßgasse or the Steinberggasse. * From the lake of Hintersee along the Böselsteig (path) Unlike its eastern neighbour, the ''Großes Mühlsturzhorn'', the Stadelhorn has fewer climbing options, although an ascent does require a

head for heights To have a head for heights means that one has no acrophobia (irrational fear of heights), and is also not particularly prone to fear of falling or suffering from vertigo (the spinning sensation that can be triggered, for example, by looking down ...

and

sure-footedness Sure-footedness is the ability, especially when hiking or mountain climbing, to navigate difficult or rough terrain safely. Such situations place demands on a person's coordination and reserves of strength as well as requiring sufficient appreciati ...

. Only a sports climbing tour up the southwest face is used more often. Mountains of the Alps Berchtesgaden Alps Mountains of Bavaria Mountains of Salzburg (federal state) Two-thousanders of Austria Berchtesgadener Land Two-thousanders of Germany