Location: Berchtesgadener Land

The Wimbachklamm lies at the mouth of the Wimbach valley in Ramsau, in the Berchtesgaden National Park. Since 1847 a roughly 200 m path has led over walkways and bridges through the gorge carved out by the Wimbach.HighlightsRoaring Wimbach with eddies, pools and waterfalls in a tight spaceHistoric walkways and bridges right above the white waterEntrance to the wide Wimbach valley…

A former Nazi-era reception building on the Kehlstein (built 1937–1938), today a restaurant offering a wide view over the Berchtesgaden Alps.HighlightsPanoramic view over the Berchtesgaden region, Watzmann and UntersbergAscent via the spectacular Kehlstein road by special busHistoric brass lift through the rock tunnelA factual look at the Nazi history on the ObersalzbergRestaurant and café in the…

The Hintersee is a small mountain lake about two kilometres west of the centre of Ramsau. It formed around 3,500 to 4,000 years ago, when a rockslide from the Hochkalter massif dammed the Klausbach.HighlightsClear, turquoise-green water reflecting the Hochkalter and Reiter AlpeZauberwald: a geotope of moss-covered rockslide blocks on the shoreHistoric 19th-century painters’ colonyCircular path around…

The Königssee is regarded as one of the cleanest and, at up to 190 metres, deepest lakes in Germany. Set between the steeply rising walls of the Watzmann massif and the Hagen mountains, it looks like a Nordic fjord that has strayed into the Alps. What makes the Königssee special Electric boats since 1909: for conservation reasons…

Founded in 1978, Berchtesgaden National Park is the only national park in the German Alps and one of the best places in the country to watch large wild animals in the wild. Anyone who brings time, patience and good binoculars has a realistic chance of encountering species that have long since vanished elsewhere. Which animals…