Zugspitze, Bavaria · Travel Poster

Not just a view, the heritage behind it. Ella writes about the place, its hidden history, and the details that never make it into the guidebooks, all printed on the poster.

Germany's highest peak has the German-Austrian border running right across its summit, and for decades that meant a genuine passport check at the top of a mountain, right up until the Schengen Agreement scrapped it in 1995. It also triggered one of the odder rivalries in alpine engineering: the Austrians built a cable car to their side of the summit first, so a few years later German engineers drilled straight through the mountain and laid a cogwheel railway to the glacier just below their own terrace. Two separate summit platforms, Bavarian and Tyrolean, joined by a narrow walkway that used to be a border post.

An original illustration, available in colour or black and white, created for the Ella's Adventures travel poster series.

No frame included.

Please note that, to protect the original artwork from copyright infringement, the images shown on this website are low resolution. The poster you receive is printed in high resolution, with all the detail and clarity of the original.