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MartinswandMartinswand Rock Face, Tirol, alt. 1,113 m, rock face on the south-west side of Hechenberg Mountain (also called Kirchenbergköpfl Mountain alt. 1,943 m); situated on the left bank of the River Inn near Zirl; southernmost point of the western ranges of the Karwendel Mountains; borders the town of Innsbruck to the west. The Martinswand Cave commemorates the occasion at the end of the 15th century when Emperor Maximilian I is said to have lost his way on the rockface when hunting chamois. Used by the Mittenwald Railway, a tunnel of 1.8 km leads through the Martinswand Rock Face, which separates the Upper Inn Valley from the Lower Inn Valley. Popular with climbers.
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