!!!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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