Thierberg is a mountain located in the north and southwest of the town of
Kiefersfelden
Kiefersfelden is a municipality with about 7000 inhabitants located in the district of Rosenheim in Bavaria in Germany on the border with Tyrol, Austria.
Geography
Geographical location
Kiefersfelden is located in the foothills of the Alps, in ...
and thus extends over the border between Austria and Germany and it extends up to
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 ...
,
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 state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
but the most part is in
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 ...
. In the not-too-high mountain, the
Inn Valley
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, mo ...
is located at approximately 500 meters above sea level. There are several lakes:
Egelsee,
Hechtsee and
Längsee.
Thierberg mountain is named after the village and
cadastral community
A cadastral community or cadastral municipality, is a cadastral subdivision of municipalities in the nations of Austria,Cadastral Template for Austria, web-pageCT-AT Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, ...
"Thierberg" .
On the mountain, the
Thierberg castle (721
m.a.s.l) is one of the popular pilgrimage destination of the mountain that was built approximately 1280 A.C.
Image:Thierbergkapelle-1.jpg, Theirberg chapel in the background is Spitzstein
Spitzstein 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 state o ...
(left) and Geigelstein
Geigelstein is a mountain in Bavaria, Germanywith an elevation of 1,808 meters. It is a mountain within the Chiemgau Alps
The Chiemgau Alps (german: Chiemgauer Alpen) are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps and therefore belong to t ...
.
Image:Thierbergkapelle-2.jpg, Theirberg chapel (inside).
Image:Thierbergkapelle-3.jpg, An altar at Theirberg chapel.
Image:Thierberg Kaiser-Panorama-1.jpg, Kaiser Mountains seen from Thierberg.
External links
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www.thierberg.at
Mountains of Bavaria
Kufstein
Mountains of the Alps
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