Benediktenwand

Benediktenwand
Benediktenwand
	North face of the Benediktenwand
Highest point
Elevation	1,800 m above sea level (NN) (5,900 ft)
Prominence	943 m
Coordinates	47°39′11″N 11°27′56″E / 47.65306°N 11.46556°E
Geography
	Benediktenwand Bavaria, Germany
Parent range	Prealps (Bavarian Prealps)
Geology
Age of rock	Triassic
Mountain type	Wetterstein limestone
Climbing
Normal route	From Benediktbeuern via the Tutzinger Hut and the western ascent to the summit

The Benediktenwand (formerly the Kirchstein) is a 1,800-metre-high (5,900 ft) mountain ridge in the Bavarian Prealps between the rivers Loisach and Isar and the Jachenau in the south and Benediktbeuern Abbey, from which it derives its name, in the north. Immediately below the North Face of the Benediktenwand is the Tutzinger Hut (1,327 m).

During the Würm glaciation, the summit of the Benediktenwand towered about 600 metres above the ice stream of the Walchensee and Isar Glaciers (branches of the Inn Valley Glacier).^[2]

^ Geologische Karte von Bayern mit Erläuterungen (1:500,000). Bayerisches Geologisches Landesamt, 1998.
^ Karte von v. Klebelsberg 1912 in Auf den Spuren der Eiszeit südlich von München – östlicher Teil, ISBN 3-931516-09-1

[1] Geologische Karte von Bayern mit Erläuterungen (1:500,000). Bayerisches Geologisches Landesamt, 1998.

[2] Karte von v. Klebelsberg 1912 in Auf den Spuren der Eiszeit südlich von München – östlicher Teil, ISBN 3-931516-09-1

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