Taubenberg is a mountain with a height of 896 m

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and area of 1847 haWalentowski, Fischer 2006, S. 24. in the Warngau municipality in the district of

Miesbach Miesbach () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and is the capital of the Miesbach district. The district is at an altitude of 697 metres above sea level. It covers an area of approximately 863.50 km² of alpine headlands and in 2017 had a popul ...

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. It is set apart from the Tegernsee mountains of 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 is a popular hiking destination and the most important water supply area of the Bavarian capital Munich. About two-thirds of the mountain is owned by the city of Munich, the rest is freehold of local farmers and foresters.

Geography

Geologically Taubenberg belongs to the Molasse foothillsWalentowski, Fischer 2006, Seite 10 ff. with its characteristic east–west orientation and marks (as for example, the

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) the northern edge of the Subalpine Molasse(German) in the Bavarian Alpine foothills and thus the geological edge of the Alps. Taubenberg is the result of debris flows of the upper freshwater molasses, which came from the south about 10-15 million years ago - when the Alps were formed. These coarse debris cones now form characteristic mountains in front of the exits of the former tertiary Alpine rivers ( Tischberg , Hoher Peißenberg,

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and others). Through the ice of later glaciations they were later left as

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s from their softer environment of fine sands and acted as icebreakers, separating the ice flows of individual glacier termini. The distribution of

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s and the

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s in the summit area of the Taubenberg suggest that it was not overshadowed by glaciers in the last, the Würm glaciation, but emerged from the ice as

Nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...

. Taubenberg has a peculiar

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. The highest point is in the west of the ridge. From there, the small Farnbach(German) flows in a valley in the center of the terrain structure to the east and the

Mangfall The Mangfall is a river of Upper Bavaria, Germany. The Mangfall is the outflow of the Tegernsee lake and discharges in Rosenheim from the left into the Inn. It is long. Towns and villages on the Mangfall * Gmund am Tegernsee * Valley * Weyar ...

, in which it flows. The valley of the Farnbach divides Taubenberg into a northern and a southern ridge, which are connected to each other in the west. The northern ridge is higher, in its east is the second highest point of the mountain. The southern ridge drops almost equally from west to east. In front of it is the Steinbachtal(German), a broad sloping hollow with fen.

References

Mountains of Bavaria Mountains of the Alps {{Bavaria-geo-stub