The Aggenstein is a mountain, 1,986 metres high (according to German survey: ) in the Allgäu Alps on the border

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Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

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. It is located in the

n part of the

Tannheim Mountains The Tannheim Mountains Pfronten Pfronten ( Swabian: ''Pfronte'') is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. Geography Pfronten is one of a total of 45 towns, markets and municipalities in the district of Ostallgäu. Pfronten is located on the n ...

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Ostallgäu Ostallgäu is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Oberallgäu, Unterallgäu, Augsburg, Landsberg, Weilheim-Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and by the Au ...

Location and surrounding area

The

prominence In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...

of the Aggenstein is at least 266 metres,Its exact value is not known; the given value is a minimum - it could be up to 19 metres higher - derived from the

contour interval A contour line (also isoline, isopleth, or isarithm) of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value, so that the curve joins points of equal value. It is a plane section of the three-dimensional grap ...

(20 metres) in the 1:25,000 scale map. its isolation is 1.8 kilometres, the Brentenjoch being the reference peak.

Routes to the summit

* Via

Pfronten Pfronten ( Swabian: ''Pfronte'') is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. Geography Pfronten is one of a total of 45 towns, markets and municipalities in the district of Ostallgäu. Pfronten is located on the n ...

– Breitenberg – Böser Tritt – Bad Kissinger Hut (

Alpine Club hut Alpine club huts (german: Alpenvereinshütten) or simply club huts (''Clubhütten'') form the majority of the over 1,300 mountain huts in the Alps and are maintained by branches, or sections, of the various Alpine clubs. Although the usual English ...

) – summit (ca. 2.5 hours) * Via Pfronten Breitenberg – Böser Tritt – Langer Strich – summit (ca. 2 hours); cable car available * Via

– Reichenbach-Klamm – Bad Kissinger Hut (

) – summit (ca. 3.5 hours) * Via Grän/Enge (

) – Bad Kissinger Hut – summit (ca. 2.5 hours) * Via Grän – Füssener Jöchle – Tannheimer Höhenweg – Bad Kissinger Hut – summit (ca. 2.5 hours); cable car available

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References

{{Authority control Mountains of Bavaria Mountains of Tyrol (state) Allgäu Alps Mountains of the Alps