The Schafalpenköpfe are a small mountain formation, consisting of three

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, the

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(2,272 m),

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(2,302 m) and Third Schafalpenkopf (2,320 m). A 2.4-kilometre-long

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of medium difficulty (grade C), the Mindelheimer Klettersteig, runs over them.

Origin of the name

The naming of the mountains as ''Die Wilden'', "the Wild Ones" probably comes from the valley of

Kleinwalsertal Kleinwalsertal is a valley in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg and part of the Bregenz district. It includes the municipality of Mittelberg and consists of three villages along the River Breitach. Due to the geographic location in the All ...

to the north, because they do not appear to be of agricultural value from that side. They were first mentioned in 1783 as the ''Wilden Köpf'' in Blasius Hueber's Vorarlberg map. The name of "Schafalpenköpfe" comes from the south and refers to the rocky summits (''Felsköpfe'') above the alpine sheep pastures (''Schäfalpen'') of the Taufersbergalpe, an alpine meadow. The name first appears as ''Schäfalpenkopf'' and ''Schäfalpenköpfl'' in 1819 in an old survey sheet of the Bavarian State Office for Survey and Geoinformation in Munich. An 1844 description of the border includes the words: ''über den ersten Schafalpenkopf, über den zweiten Schafalpenkopf, bis zu dem dritten Schafalpenkopf'' ("over the first Schafalpenkopf, over the second Schafalpenkopf to the third Schafalpenkopf"). In an Austria special map for the

Biberkopf The Biberkopf is a 2,599 m high mountain in the Alps on the border between Germany and Austria. Location and area The Biberkopf lies on the main crest of the Allgäu Alps on the border between the Bavarian district of Oberallgäu and the ...

region they are also named as the ''Walser Kerle''.Thaddäus Steiner: ''Allgäuer Bergnamen''. 2nd edn., Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg, 2008, (pp. 178f).

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