Paschberg, Mountain summit in Tyrol, Austria

Paschberg is a wooded ridge at the foot of the Patscherkofel south of Innsbruck, its highest point the Lanser Kopf at 930 m. It extends from the Sillschlucht and Viller Bach in the west to the Lanser Bach near Ambras Castle in the east, rising from the Inn valley floor to ice-age-formed terraces between Lans and Vill. The ridge is the remnant of a dead-ice hollow whose depressions still hold small lakes such as the Lanser See and Mühlsee, some of them silted up as the Lanser Moor and Viller Moor.

The Paschberg is first recorded in 1141 as "Phlanters" in a document of Wilten Abbey. At its eastern end stood Ambras Castle, from the Renaissance the residence of the Tyrolean princes, while the fortress Straßfried on the western spur above the Sill was abandoned in the same period and has left no visible trace. Remains of a World War II anti-aircraft position lie on the Lanser Kopf.

The name Paschberg goes back to a 1141 document of Wilten Abbey, which records it as "Phlanters". The wooded ridge is a local recreation area, reached by tram line 6, the Mittelgebirgsbahn; at the Tantegert passing loop a still-inhabited railway keeper's cottage stands by a silted-up lake, its name from Tann-t-Egart, "meadow in the fir wood".

The Paschberg is reached by tram line 6, the Mittelgebirgsbahn, which runs through the forest; the Tantegert passing loop sits by a silted-up lake and keeps a still-inhabited railway keeper's cottage. The wooded ridge rises from the Inntal floor at Innsbruck to the ice-age terraces between Lans and Vill, with the Lanser Kopf at 930 m as its highest point. Paths link the Lanser See, Lanser Moor, Mühlsee and the Tummelplatz war cemetery.

At the Tantegert passing loop of the Mittelgebirgsbahn, in the middle of the Paschberg forest beside a silted-up lake, stands a railway keeper's cottage that is still lived in today. The name Tantegert derives from Tann-t-Egart, meaning meadow in the fir wood.