The Großer Beil, is a high mountain at the head of the

Wildschönau Wildschönau is a municipality within the district of Kufstein in the state of Tyrol 6 km south of Wörgl. The 24 km long high valley near Wörgl is one of the district's tourist centers. Besides a few hamlets, the municipality cons ...

valley in the Austrian state of

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. It belongs to the

Kitzbühel Alps The Kitzbühel Alps ( or ''Kitzbühler Alpen'') are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps surrounding the town of Kitzbühel in Tyrol, Austria. Geologically they are part of the western slate zone ( greywacke zone). Location Two-thirds of ...

and is the highest summit on the ridge that separates the Wildschönau from the neighbouring valley of the

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to the west. Around 500 metres north is the 2,189 m high ''Seekopf'' and a further 500 metres beyond that is the ''Kleine Beil'' at 2,197 m. The next mountain to the south is the 2,216 m high ''Gressenstein''. On the other side of the valley is the Wildkarspitze (1,961 m). The Großer Beil is a popular hiking mountain and may be reached on marked trails from the north or south. The usual start point is the ''Schönangeralm'' (1,173 m) at the head of the Wildschönau valley behind Auffach. In winter the Großer Beil is a popular

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, accessed on 18 Feb 2010 The name of the mountain is not derived from the German word ''Beil'' (="hatchet") but from a dialect word for a place near which animals are held during a hunt.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grosser Beil Mountains of the Alps Mountains of Tyrol (federal state) Two-thousanders of Austria Kitzbühel Alps