Stadelhorn

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Berchtesgaden Alps The Berchtesgaden Alps (german: Berchtesgadener Alpen) are a mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps, named after the market town of Berchtesgaden located in the centre. The central part belongs to the Berchtesgadener Land district of southe ...

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Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian) is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the ...

, 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 Reiter Alm on the Austro-German border, lying on the boundary between the states of

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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-top mountain is the Berchtesgaden Hochthron at . T ...

, the Hochkalter and Watzmann over the Leoganger Steinberge and

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

to the Sonntagshorn 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 initi ...

valley. In addition, on clear days, the Stadelhorn offers a view from the

Großer Priel The Großer Priel () is, at 2,515 metres above the Adriatic (8,251 ft), the highest mountain of the Totes Gebirge range, located in the Traunviertel region of Upper Austria.

in the east over the Dachstein and the High Tauern - including the

Großglockner The Grossglockner (german: Großglockner ; or just ''Glockner'') is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), the highest mountain in Austria and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It is part of the larger Glock ...

and

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, 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, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying i ...

; 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 and sure-footedness. 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 (state) Two-thousanders of Austria Berchtesgadener Land Two-thousanders of Germany