Gatterl Border Crossing – Knorr Hut loop from Holzbeige

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Gatterl Border Crossing – Knorr Hut loop from Holzbeige

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Gatterl Border Crossing – Knorr Hut loop from Holzbeige

09:28

18.8km

1,380m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required.

Last updated: September 25, 2026

Tips

Includes segments that may be dangerous

Parts of this route comprise highly technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience is required.

After 2.18 km for 1.15 km

After 8.51 km for 1.79 km

After 15.5 km for 1.15 km

Waypoints

Start point

Restaurant

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820 m

Max-Klotz Trail

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Most beautiful route section on the tour from Ehrwald to Knorrhütte

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3.30 km

Gatterl Border Crossing

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The Gatterl is a border crossing between Germany and Austria that is worth seeing and offers a great view of the Reintal, the Zugspitze and the surrounding mountain ranges. The …

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3.92 km

Old Customs Hut and Stone Cairns (Alte Zollhütte)

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Nice photo opportunity. Behind it you have a nice view of the Kleiner Wanner and the Hochwanner.

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5.51 km

Knorr Hut

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A rustic Alpine Club hut in the middle of a scree field in front of the Zugspitze. Here you have a beautiful view of the green Reintal, but also of …

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6.18 km

View of the Knorrhütte and the Reintal

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Very stony area. Hardly anything green.

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9.27 km

View of the Zugspitze glacier

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Shortly before the platform on the Zugspitze you have a beautiful view back of the glacier

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14.1 km

View of the Reintal Valley

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Knorrhütte is worth a detour, small but nice and good food

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15.7 km

Feldernjöchl

Mountain Pass

17.0 km

View of the Zugspitze High Valley

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Beautiful climb with magnificent mountain panoramas and lush green meadows

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18.8 km

End point

Restaurant

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

18.8 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

10.3 km

7.65 km

920 m

Elevation

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Weather

Tuesday 6 October

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Comments

September 3, 2024,44 - Über die Ehrwalder Alm und das Gatterl auf die Zugspitze (30)

Very nice tour from the Ehrwalder Alm. From the Gatterl you came into the lunar landscape of the Zugspitze but it also had something special about it 😅 the last part from the Sonnalpin up to the Zugspitze was so-so. The gravel path was just steep and slippery and not fun. Afterwards the via ferrata on solid ground brought back …

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June 30, 2024,Zugspitze 🇦🇹🇩🇪: Hochfeldern Alm über's Gatterl hoch zum Gipfel 😅🐶🐶🐶🐶🏔

After we had already climbed a few meters in altitude the day before, today we went over the Gatterl with fantastic views, first to the Zugspitze plateau. The weather held up against all forecasts, and so we climbed the last, not easy, ascent to the top with helmets and crampons. The last few steps were then no longer needed at …

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July 27, 2024,Zugspitze Gatterl-Tour

I have to say that was quite exhausting, especially the last part with crawling in rubble

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August 31, 2024,Zugspitze 16S#16 🚡

My last, most spectacular and most difficult summit. Only possible with alpine experience. But the cable cars run reliably.

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October 23, 2023,übers Gatterl auf die Zugspitze

SUPAGUADE, challenging hike with Jonas over the "Gatterl" nauffi to the Zugspitze. Good weather, great views, exciting route.

We started at the alpine station of the Ehrwalder Almbahn and from then on we walked mainly uphill for 4 to 5 hours (a little more than the 1100 meters on komoot in total, but in between it also goes downhill and …

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June 20, 2025,Dort wo Deutschland am Höchsten ist

A short vacation in the Wetterstein Mountains. Finally, one might almost say. Because the thought of spending a few days here had been with me for ages.
The rest of the family was with me in varying numbers. Everything not part of the current household was summoned here from Munich. In the end, it was my eldest and the "little …

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August 23, 2023,Zugspitze übers Gatterl

The walking time of 4:40 is nonsense. It was 6:50. No idea what Komoot calculates here.

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August 29, 2024,Von der Zugspitze obi zur Ehrwalder Alm

With the Tiroler Zugspitzbahn up to the highest mountain in Germany.....and then across the scree and Gatterl to the Ehrwalder Alm and with the Almbahn down and with the bus back to the valley station of the Zugspitzbahn....I don't want to go anymore

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