Talk:Zugspitze

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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)

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). :)

[edit] Großes Höllental (Large Valley of Hell)

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