page_title: Mittenwald Railway
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Mittenwald Railway / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Schlossbachgrabenbrücke der Mittenwaldbahn mit dem Schlossbachtunnelportal und S5 Richtung Scharnitz &#160; Dieses Bild wurde anlässlich des Spezialpreises „Bahninfrastruktur“ zum österreichischen Tag des Denkmals 2016 in Tirol hochgeladen. &#160; This media shows the protected monument with the number 95664 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata) &#160; This media shows the protected monument with the number 95657 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata)
context_page_description: The Mittenwald Railway, popularly known as the Karwendelbahn, is a railway line in the Alps in Austria and Germany. It connects Innsbruck via Seefeld and Mittenwald to Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
  The Mittenwald railway was built as an electric local railway from 1910 to 1912 by the engineers and contractors Josef Riehl and Wilhelm Carl von Doderer. The route was opened on 28 October 1912 and operated jointly by the Austrian Federal Railways and the Royal Bavarian State Railways. It was one of the first lines operated with high-tension single-phase AC-powered trains. Thus it had a substantial impact on the development of standards for electric railway operations in Central Europe. Together with the Ausserfern Railway it connects the Austrian district of Außerfern with the Tyrol through Germany.
context_section_description: The Mittenwald railway runs mainly in the south-north direction between several mountain ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps. In the south it runs from the Inn valley from Innsbruck via Hochzirl and past the Zirler Berg mountain to Seefeld; the Mieminger Mountains lie to the west and the Karwendel range lies to the east.
  From there it runs between the Karwendel range to the east and the Wetterstein range to the west over the Scharnitz pass and the Austria-Germany border to Mittenwald; at the Scharnitz pass it runs for a short distance along the upper reaches of the Isar river. It then bends to the west, running to Garmisch-Partenkirchen between the Wetterstein range to the south and the Ester Mountains to the north.
  The most remarkable thing about the route of the Mittenwald Railway is the long section with many tunnels along the edge of the Martinswand (Martin’s wall), a rock face between Kranebitten and Hochzirl station, including the passage of the Martinswand Tunnel  (1810.23 m) through the rock wall; it is the longest tunnel on the line. Slightly northwest of Hochzirl, the line runs over the southern flank of the Rauenkopf and southwestern flank of the Brunstkopf, crossing the Schlossbach on an elongated hairpin built with bridges and tunnels. Not far southwest of the bend, it passed the Zirl mountain.
caption: The Schlossbach bridge of the Mittenwald Railway
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