The Zugspitze ist the highest peak of Germany, but
only half of it is German. The border between Bavaria and Tyrol runs over the summit. It belongs to the Wetterstein range (which means weather rock, because it is hit first by incoming bad weather from the northwest, overshadowing the neighboring mountains to the north and west by more than 600 m).
On the Zugspitz Platt (a limestone plateau south east of the summit, gently descending to the east), there is a ski resort.