Fotoeins Friday: Zugspitze, AT-DE border (5)
In various travels throughout the years, I’ve found myself standing at the Austrian-German (AT-DE 🇦🇹🇩🇪) border, often up in the Alps. That’s a given in this part of the world, but there are low or flat parts to the border as well.
The Zugspitze summit proper makes the peak the highest point in Germany. The shared border with Austria does not mean the same; the highest point in Austria lies 135 km to the east-southeast (Grossglockner). Back at Zugspitze, the German gondola from Eibsee and the Austrian gondola from Obermoss are connected by a covered passageway. The south end of the passage is marked by signs welcoming visitors to Austrian Tirol or German Bavaria. The international border straddles the mountain ridge where a toll house used to control the flow of people and goods between the two nations.
I made the photos above on 25 Feb 2017 with a Canon EOS6D mark1. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-r60.