Tag: Chiemgau Alps
Kampenwandbahn: New Year’s Eve on the Kampenwand questionable – Bavaria
There are supposedly around 300 normal benches and 200 motif benches in Aschau im Chiemgau, which advertises itself as a “banker’s village” to day trippers and tourists. The motif bench…
Kampenwandbahn: New construction plans hanging by a thread – Bavaria
Those involved in the process do not have to wait in line for long on this rainy Thursday morning. It is precisely the long queues in the morning at the…
Forest fires in Bavaria: How fire brigades should act in the mountains – Bavaria
Sebastian Pertl almost got it himself. The Wast, as everyone here calls him, remembers well how they sat on his pasture up on the Geigelstein on a Saturday and someone…
Forest fire in the mountains: With hoe and helicopter against the flames – Bavaria
Sebastian Pertl almost got it himself. The Wast, as everyone here calls him, remembers well how they sat on his pasture up on the Geigelstein on a Saturday and someone…
Mountain rescue rescues a soldier from Hochstaufen-Jagersteig – Bavaria
A Bundeswehr soldier collapsed unconscious on a mountain march on Tuesday and was taken from the Hochstaufen-Jagersteig by the mountain rescue service and a rescue helicopter. According to the Bundeswehr,…
Bavaria: climber crashes in the Chiemgau Alps and dies – Bavaria
A mountaineer from Upper Bavaria fell and died on a hike in the Chiemgau Alps. As the police announced on Monday, the experienced alpinist set off on a demanding tour…
New construction or monument protection: tug-of-war over the Kampenwandbahn
Demolition and new construction of the well-known cable car high above Lake Chiemsee have long been approved, but the dispute about it is entering a new round. In the end,…
Paraglider caught in the mountain railway: large-scale operation of the mountain rescue service in Chiemgau – Bavaria
A paraglider who flew into the ropes of the Hochfelln-Bahn triggered a large-scale operation by the mountain rescue service in Chiemgau. The 26-year-old dangled more than 80 meters above the…
Cable car construction: more money, more people, more problems – Bavaria
It was a farewell with melancholy and brass band music: Last Sunday, the people of Ruhpolding climbed into one of the black and gray gondolas for the last time to…
Chiemsee: BN sues against new cable car on the Kampenwand – Bavaria
Anyone who has made it to the Kampenwand on foot, by mountain bike or with the cable car has been able to make themselves comfortable on seating groups made of…