2024-01-11 13:55:49
Your Majesty, the Zugspitze: View of Germany’s highest mountain, at whose feet Garmisch-Partenkirchen spreads out. Image: Interfoto
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is and remains Germany’s most famous winter sports resort. But the days when alpine skiing was the focus are coming to an end. And the care robots are already waiting in the valley.
Postal address: At the Zugspitze 6. But you are on the Zugspitze, at least almost when you sit on the terrace of the “Sonnalpin” glacier restaurant at 2,600 meters above sea level and look pensively at a maypole that stands out in the steel-blue sky. The 18 meter high spruce tree was erected by the Hammersbach Maypole Association. You wouldn’t have expected them up here, but even in the high mountains, many things are no longer as they seem and as they once were. There is still only self-service.
A glacier on the verge of death
Last summer, two clergymen celebrated an ecumenical requiem for the Zugspitze glacier here, and a group of journalists followed them stumbling from the Maria Visitation chapel through the stone desert to the glacier tongue of the Northern Schneeferner. The glacier, which is threatened with death, is currently hiding under a meter-high blanket of snow. All the misery of climate change is on pause for a few winter months. If things go well.
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