The Sigiswanger Horn (also Sigiswangerhorn) is part of the

Hörner group Hoerner or Hörner is a surname that may refer to: Spelled as Hoerner: * Dan Hoerner (born 1969), American guitarist, vocalist, and author * Dick Hoerner (1922–2010), American football player * Hanna von Hoerner (1942–2014), German astrophysici ...

in the

Allgäu Alps The Allgäu Alps (german: Allgäuer Alpen) are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, located in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany and Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria. The range lies directly east of Lake Constance. Character ...

. It reaches a height of 1,527 m and rises between

Bolsterlang Bolsterlang is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, ...

and

Ofterschwang Ofterschwang is a municipality in southern Germany, in Oberallgäu, Bavaria. It is a professional winter sports venue, regularly used for World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually in ...

. Like its neighbour, the

Rangiswanger Horn Rangiswanger Horn is a mountain of Bavaria, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member ...

, it belongs geologically to the flysch mountains of the Anterior Hörner group (''Vordere Hörnergruppe''), with their numerous boggy meadows and species-rich forested ravines.

Description

The Sigiswanger Horn is ''"a rarely visited summit, covered in forest"''. The summit of this "Horn" may be climbed in a few minutes from the Panorama Way on the so-called '' Allgäu Hörner Tour'', which runs between the

Ofterschwanger Horn Ofterschwanger Horn is a mountain of Bavaria, Germany. Mountains of Bavaria Mountains of the Alps {{Bavaria-geo-stub ...

and the

Weiherkopf The Weiherkopf is a summit in the Hörner Group within the Allgäu Alps in Bavaria, Germany, with a height of . Geography The peak rises within the Nagelfluhkette Nature Park. To the north is Immenstadt, to the east Fischen im Allgäu. To the ...

. Only a mossy cairn adorns the summit of the Sigiswanger Horn. When approaching from the north this peak is the second of four on the Hörner tour. The Hörner tour is a route that used both in summer as well as in winter (e.g. with snowshoes). In winter the route is neither waymarked nor signed, however. North of the Sigiswanger Horn is the ''Fahnengehrenalpe'' (1,329 m), to the east the ''Schwingundalpe'' (1,078 m) and the ''Kahlrückenalpe'' (1,189 m) and, to the south, the ''Sigiswangerhornalpe'' (1,407 m). The ''Sigiswanger Horn'' is named after the village of ''Sigiswang'', which lies at the eastern foot of the mountain. Sigiswang is part of the municipality of Ofterschwang. According to Thaddäus Steiner the first half of the place name of Sigiswang goes back to the Old German personal name, ''Sigi''.Thaddäus Steiner, Allgäuer Bergnamen, Lindenberg, 2007, p. 194, In early 19th century maps it was still written ''Siegeswanger Horn''.

Literature and maps

Walking guides

* ''Sigiswangerhorn'', in: Dieter Seibert, ''Allgäuer Alpen alpin'', Alpine Club Guide, Munich, 2004, 16th edn., p. 145,

Maps

* Alpine Club map ''Bayerische Alpen, Allgäuer Voralpen West: Nagelfluhkette, Hörnergruppe, Wegmarkierung und Skirouten'', BY 1, 1st edn., 2012, 1:25,000 map series, publ. by the

German Alpine Club The German Alpine Club (german: links=no, Deutscher Alpenverein, DAV for short) is the world's largest climbing association and the eighth-largest sporting association in Germany. It is a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the ...

, *

Bavarian State Office for Survey and Geoinformation The Bavarian State Office for Digitizing, Broadband and Survey (german: Landesamt für Digitalisierung, Breitband und Vermessung Bayern) or LDBV, until 31 December 2013 Bavarian State Office for Survey and Geoinformation (german: Landesamt für Ve ...

, UK L 8, ''Allgäuer Alpen'', area map, scale 1 : 50,000, Bavarian State Survey Office, Munich,

References

{{reflist One-thousanders of Germany Mountains of the Alps Mountains of Bavaria Allgäu Alps Oberallgäu