Königssee, the Watzmann and the Kehlstein. 3 guides.
Königssee banned combustion engines in 1909 to preserve echoesThe Königssee lies inside a national park, its passenger boats have been electric since 1909, and the reason given is the echo off the Watzmann's east face.
Two thousand metres of east face separated WatzmannThe Watzmann east face is the highest in the Eastern Alps and it is the reason the mountain is written about in a different register from the ones around it.
Kehlsteinhaus took thirteen months because Todt blasted through winterThe Kehlsteinhaus is approached by a road and a brass-lined lift driven into the rock. It is a documented piece of Nazi-era construction and is written about here as engineering and record, not as spectacle.