Events Panoramastraße
Current presentation-tours
& nostalgic journeys through time
Overnight stays in vehicles and camping
along the entire route of the Rossfeld Panoramastraße and the associated car parks is not permitted!
Events
International Edelweiss Bergpreis Roßfeld Berchtesgaden
The Edelweiss Bergpreis offers a nostalgic journey back in time to the 1960s with historic vehicles and presentation runs against the backdrop of the Berchtesgaden Alps. The charity idea supports mentally handicapped people.
Against the magnificent backdrop of the Berchtesgaden Alps, the “International Edelweiss Mountain Prize Rossfeld Berchtesgaden” will be a nostalgic journey back in time to the 1960s with its unforgettable European Mountain Championship races at Rossfeld. With this “Goodwood on the mountain”, we are also building a bridge to the legendary Salzberg races on the gravel road between Berchtesgaden and Obersalzberg.
With the new edition on the last weekend of September 2013, we are creating a unique stage for the fascinating sports, touring, racing and formula cars of this era. Historic service vehicles, race transporters, police cars, fire engines and ambulances will provide the backdrop for the paddocks. Many car manufacturers and collectors will open their treasure troves and bring their jewels to Berchtesgaden. Furthermore, contemporary witnesses – such as racing drivers, speakers and officials – will contribute to an impressive atmosphere in addition to the authentic decorations.
Visitors are part of the event with the appropriate clothing and their classic cars, where historic buses take them to the individual stations along the route or to the two paddocks. Three presentation runs on regularity and a demonstration run of motorbikes built before 1930 are planned each day, as well as regular demonstrations by courageous steep-sided drivers with their old Indians.
However, the best and most meaningful aspect of the “International Edelweiss Mountain Prize Rossfeld Berchtesgaden” is the charity idea! All net proceeds go to mentally handicapped people in Berchtesgadener Land and help to make their lives easier and more beautiful.
Salzberg and Rossfeld races
As early as the 1920s, the Salzberg race attracted renowned racing drivers to Berchtesgaden. The road became the venue for international hill climbs until the energy crisis in 1973 heralded the end of these spectacular competitions.
Between 1925 and 1928, mountain races with motorbikes and cars took place on the steep sandy track from Berchtesgaden to Obersalzberg. The Salzberg race attracted renowned racing drivers to Berchtesgaden, including the unforgettable duel between Hans Stuck and Rudolf Caracciola in 1928.
From 1958, the race on the Roßfeldstraße near Berchtesgaden was an international competition for touring cars, Grand Tourisme vehicles and sports and Formula Junior cars, and from 1961 it was categorised as a round of the European Hillclimb Championship. Well-known racing drivers such as Sepp Greger, Edgar Barth, Gerhard Mitter, Hans Herrmann, Rolf Stommelen and Johannes Ortner won the “International Alpine Mountain Prize Rossfeld”.
On 8 June 1968, the Italian mountain specialist Ludovico Scarfiotti lost his life at the wheel of a Porsche 910 Bergspyder during training here at Roßfeld. The race was organised by the Automobilclub von Deutschland (AvD) together with the Berchtesgadener Automobilclub (BAC).
In addition to the well-known works drivers from the major car manufacturers, ambitious private drivers – including local motorsport enthusiasts – competed in the various classes. Almost everything with four wheels – from Porsches to Goggomobiles – was chased uphill. The Hartmann Spyder and Formula Junior racing cars produced in Berchtesgaden were a speciality – powerful and reliable vehicles that definitely found their fans.
The energy crisis put an end to the hill climb for good in 1973 and with it one of the biggest spectator attractions in Berchtesgaden.
25 years later, Günter and Heidi Hansmann revived the spirit of the Roßfeld race and in 1998 the first Roßfeld Historic took place, during which the hill climb on the Roßfeld took place again – naturally as a regularity event.
