Naming:
Due to the different names in the Kleinwalsertal in the northeast and the Oberstdorfer side in the east, the name situation of the mountains previously called Hammerspitze and Schüsser was complicated. Therefore, the mountains were officially renamed in July 2013 to improve the situation, for example in the event of emergency calls. The German Schüsser and the Austrian Hammerspitze became the Walser Hammerspitze and the German Hammerspitze and the Austrian Schüsser the Oberstdorfer Hammerspitze.
In the official German and Austrian maps, the two mountains were each reversed. The combination on the Bavarian national map was Hammerspitze (2260 m) and Schüsser (2170 m), on the Austrian map consequently: Schüsser (2259 m) and Hammerspitze (2170 m).
The revised description of the border in 1844 states: "against the Schisser ... about the Schisser, who is called Hammerspitz on the Vorarlberg side." While the name Hammer is an expression of Walser German and means 'rock', the word stem is Schißer originating from the Allgäu. It means 'the stone throwing down' and is used, for example, in the Schißer Kar in Warmatsgund on the German side. However, “Schisser” is used in the border description for the entire ridge between the Kanzelwand and the Fiderepass. Squidward Steiner suspects that, on the Austrian side, a distinction may have been made between the hammer head, the Schüsser, and the hammer tips.