Herzogstand - Germany

This is constructed of either tin or aluminum and is an used medallion/stocknagel.

From the largest single collection of stocknagel/medallions that I have obtained from Europe to this day. This is from a group of items that have been collected over the last 45 years. The ages of each individual item can not be determined unless they are date stamped.

This stocknagel is to be mounted on a walking stick with two nails to show the places that they had visited. These are called either pins, mounts, shields, stocknagel, medallions, placckette/scudetti or badges and do the same thing as lapel or hat pins, they tell everyone where you have been and what you have seen.

The Herzogstand is a mountain in the Bavarian foothills of the Alps, 75 km south of the city of Munich. It has an elevation of 1731 metres and is situated northwest of Lake Walchen. Maximilian II of Bavaria had a hunting lodge built underneath today's so-called Herzogstand-house in 1857. His successor, King Ludwig II, had a royal lodge built further up the mountain in 1865. The Herzogstand Aerial Tramway, renewed in 1994 following a fire in 1992, runs to Herzogstand-house in 1.575 m height, and then continues on to the summit of Farnkopf situated on 1.627 m.

Due to its vicinity to the city of Munich, the Herzogstand is considered to be its "house mountain" and used for recreational purposes by its residents.

The most popular ascent (AV way 446) leads from the valley station of the aerial tramway across the south side to Herzogstand house an on to the summit of the mountain. An alternative descent leads across the somewhat suspended, but well secured ridge to the Heimgarten mountain (1,790 m), passing a lodge to the south of the Ohlstaedter Alm (1,423 m). The descent east of the Rotwandkopf continues down, ending at spa town of Walchensee.

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