The Hirschberg is a meter high

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in the Walchensee Mountains in the

Bavarian Prealps The Bavarian Prealps (german: Bayerische Voralpen) are a mountain range within the Northern Limestone Alps in south Germany. They include the Bavarian Prealp region between the river Loisach to the west and the river Inn to the east; the range is a ...

. It lies on the border between the municipalities and

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Ohlstadt Ohlstadt is a municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria, Germany. Transport The district has a railway station, , on the Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway. Notable people * Wolfgang Zimmerer (born 1940, in Ohlst ...

in the north and

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in the south.

Location and Surroundings

The Hirschberg is located about four kilometers east of

and five kilometers west of

Walchensee Walchensee or Lake Walchen is one of the deepest and largest alpine lakes in Germany, with a maximum depth of and an area of . The lake is south of Munich in the middle of the Bavarian Alps. The entire lake, including the island of Sassau, ...

. The center of the municipality of Ohlstadt is three kilometers to the north. South of the mountain runs the valley of the Eschenlaine, behind which the

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with Simetsberg and

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are connected. About 500 meters north of the summit, the meter high

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is located, from which a distinctive mountain ridge extends westward to the meter high '' Osterfeuerspitze''. The Hirschberg is forested up to the summit area. On the somewhat steeper southern side, the forest is partly interspersed with

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Trails

A forest road leads from

up the southern and eastern sides of the mountain to the ''Wankhütte'' () located north of the Ölrain. This route can also be covered by

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. From the north, from Ohlstadt, the Wankhütte can be reached via a hiking trail. From the Wankhütte, the ascent leads partly off-trail, partly on a narrow path east past the Ölrain and then further up to the Hirschberg.dullinger-web.de
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References

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