Bärenköpfle (Nagelfluhkette)

Bärenköpfle
	The Bärenköpfle
height	1476 m
location	Bavaria , Germany
Mountains	Pre-Alps west of the Iller , Allgäu Alps
Dominance	0.9 km → Steineberg
Notch height	56 m ↓ notch to the stone mountain
Coordinates	47 ° 31 '54 " N , 10 ° 12' 40" E Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '54 " N , 10 ° 12' 40" E

The Bärenköpfle (also bear's head is called), a 1,476-meter high mountain in the north of the Allgäu Alps lying Nagelfluhkette . It is located south of Immenstadt in the Oberallgäu district in the German state of Bavaria . The height of the Bärenköpfles is at least 56 meters, its dominance 900 meters, with the stone mountain being the reference mountain in each case.

It can be climbed via the Mittagberg , the local mountain of the Immenstadt community. The bear head is mainly covered with grass, only the summit cross stands on a two meter high rock. The mountain got its name because the last bear of the Allgäu is said to have been shot on it in 1760 . The name was first mentioned in 1819 in the Bavarian first recording sheet.

Notes and individual references

↑ Exact value not known, stated value is a minimum value (can be up to 19 meters higher). It was determined from the distance between the contour lines (20 meters in altitude ) on a topographic map ( scale 1: 25,000).
^ Thaddäus Steiner : Allgäu mountain names . 2nd Edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8987-0389-5 (p. 27).

[1] Exact value not known, stated value is a minimum value (can be up to 19 meters higher). It was determined from the distance between the contour lines (20 meters in altitude ) on a topographic map ( scale 1: 25,000).

[2] Thaddäus Steiner : Allgäu mountain names . 2nd Edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8987-0389-5 (p. 27).