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A fact from Zugspitze appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 April 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the first recorded ascent of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze (pictured) on 27 August 1820, was led by a Bavarian Army officer, Josef Naus?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/April.

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Is there still a "border checkpoint" there? While I didn't go to the Zugspitze, I crossed the border from Germany to Austria. There's a few signs saying "welcome to Austria" or whatever the German equivalent is, a warning that the speed limit is 130 km/h (ah, German autobahns...), and that's about it. It's like crossing from one US state to another. --Robert Merkel 00:20, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not the one to do this but boy does this page need a change - http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1877123,00.html

) 21 September

Austria and Germany are both signatories to the Schengen Agreement so there should be no border checkpoint.

The old checkpoint from before the Schengen Agreement is still there but there are no guards

I was there 1993 and 1994 and recall the stupefying crossing over narrow steel gantries well. Two things spring to mind, firstly, that the border post was unoccupied (there were probably two, but I only recall one) and secondly, that even if there were a need for a manned post down in the valley, two or three thousand metres above sea level, well over the snow line on a man made platform designed as a cable-car terminus, there is no need. Sure, you could be smuggling something... ice cream? Drugs to suppress vertigo? I'd have to guess there have always been easier crossing places on this section of the border. I recall the guard's hut as being a very small kiosk. I'm a little disappointed this page doesn't mention the nearby town of Wank,_Bavaria, a source of amusement and a distraction from the immediate drop (it's clearly marked on a map on the crossing). :)

Großes Höllental (Large Valley of Hell)

Can any of you offer any information on the Großes Höllental (Large Valley of Hell) as I would like to create a Wikipedia article on this area. I know what the Höllental (Valley of Hell) is. I am not good at German but this is what I have found: here and it has soemthing to do with Klobenwand? Thanks! FK0071a 11:17, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Bayerische Zugspitzbahn" nicht in anderen Sprachen verlinkt

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayerische_Zugspitzbahn

213.52.175.218 (talk) 08:51, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

German parameters in infobox

Does anyone else have a problem with the mountain infobox parameters being in German? It appears that when this infobox was created, the data was copy/pasted from the German page version. I wanted to make some edits to the infobox (actually addding a parameter was one of them}, but was unsure how to do it in this unfamiliar format and language. Also the infobox appears different on the visible page than any other mountain infobox I've dealt with (I've made perhaps hundreds of infobox edits).

What I would like to do is take all the existing data from the current infobox and place it the standard English Wikipedia mountain infobox template so it will be like virtually every other mountain article here. Anyone object to me doing this? --Racerx11 (talk) 03:17, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Racer, you are welcome to do this so long as information is not lost. The reason many of these infoboxes are in German is that it speeds up the process of transferring information from de.wikipedia. The translator doesn't have to laboriously and repetitively change the infoboxes every time and can get on with his/her forte i.e. translating the article. The infobox can later be converted to Infobox Mountain at any stage by anyone familiar with infoboxes. HTH. --Bermicourt (talk) 06:44, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I understand. This was the first one I ran across. Im wondering about how many pages are like this. I do not plan to hunt them all down and change them, but just curious how many more I may run into as I move through different groups of mountains.

Done, maybe, on the infobox switch. I understand why one wouldn't want to go through this too often. Took me a while to get everything right. I used the regular Germany locator map instead of the more detailed previous map. Also I didn't include the fact about the mountain having its own zip code. Other than that, I think I managed to preserve all the data. Like I said, it was a fairly labor intensive edit, hopefully I didn't screw anything up too bad. --Racerx11 (talk) 01:03, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

mountain views...

I see many images already in the article so I won't add this directly. An involved editor may chose this high-res view if it fits the article better.

File:Above Garmisch-Partenkirchen.jpeg

Above Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Cheers Saffron Blaze (talk) 04:02, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

highest mt in germany

I traveled here when i was young, was wondering if there is any connection to hitler and Zugspitze hence the hitler youth. thx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mvdc1980 (talk • contribs) 18:29, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nazi Germany's highest mountain, at least as of Anschluss in 1938, was the Großglockner (3,798 m). I don't know that Hitler had anything to do with either the Zugspitze or the Großglockner, though. Any alpine references to that monster seem to swirl around Berchtesgaden and his Berghof. He had been holidaymaking in the Obersalzberg since the 1920s, before he was even the Führer. Berchtesgaden, by the way, is a full 150 km from the Zugspitze, and I don't think that Hitler had a heavily fortified summer house anywhere near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Kelisi (talk) 17:21, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Zugspitzplatt

The article's lede suggests that visitors must take a cable car ride from here to the summit. This confusion might arise from the former arrangement in which the cog railway up from Garmisch terminated at the Schneefernerhaus, whence the Zugspitzplatt (right next to the summit) could thus be reached. The Zugspitzplatt is, however, where the cog railway now terminates; the branch to the Schneefernerhaus is still there, but is now only used by research station staff (the Schneefernerhaus ceased to be a hotel and became an environmental research station in 1999). That short cableway now serves as the staff's main means of reaching the Schneefernerhaus (they have to go to the Zugspitzplatt up above first); greater numbers of staff, or heavy loads, are usually taken to the Schneefernerhaus on the cog railway. I have therefore amended the lede to reflect the current arrangement. Kelisi (talk) 16:15, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]