!!!Martinswand

Martinswand Rock Face, Tirol, alt. 1,113 m, rock face on the 
south-west side of Hechenberg Mountain (also called Kirchenbergkoepfl 
Mountain alt. 1,943 m); situated on the left bank of the River 
Inn near Zirl; southernmost point of the western ranges of the  
Karwendel Mountains; borders the town of Innsbruck to the west. The 
Martinswand Cave commemorates the occasion at the end of the 
15%%sup th/%  century when Emperor Maximilian I is said to have lost 
his way on the rockface when hunting chamois. Used by the Mittenwald 
Railway, a tunnel of 1.8 km leads through the Martinswand Rock Face, 
which separates the Upper Inn Valley from the Lower Inn Valley. 
Popular with climbers.


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