Schlern

The Schlern (Austrian German: [ʃlɛrn]; Italian: Sciliar [ʃiˈljar]; Ladin: Sciliër; 2,563 m) is a mountain of the Dolomites in South Tyrol, Italy.

[1] The peak at the north west end of the mountain (left, in the image at right) was first ascended in July 1880 by Johann Santner.

Its characteristic profile appears on the Der Schlern - Zeitschrift für Südtiroler Landeskunde (Magazine for South Tyrolean Regional Studies) and the logo pressed into Loacker's wafer biscuits.

The etymology of the mount probably predates Germanic and even Roman times, from a common Old European root *sala ("stream, ditch, canal, etc.

The name was borrowed and Germanized over centuries (and to this day, a Bavarian dialect variant is written with the initial palatized Sch-, but the original S-).