오스트리아인들이 먼저 추크슈피체에 케이블카를 설치했고 독일인들은 1931년 산 꼭대기 바로 밑 에까지 톱니바퀴 열차가 올라갈 수 있도록 레일을 설치했다.
As if waging an epic battle of alpine engineering, just a few years after the Austrians built a cable car to their Zugspitze station, the Germans drilled through the mountain in 1931 so that a cogwheel train could deposit nature lovers on a glacier just below their side of the summit.