Blue Ice Hut

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Blaueishütte
DAV hut  category  I
Blue Ice Hut
location Blaueiskar am Hochkalter ; Bavaria ; Valley location:  Ramsau near Berchtesgaden
Mountain range Berchtesgaden Alps
Geographical location: 47 ° 35 '13 "  N , 12 ° 52' 10"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '13 "  N , 12 ° 52' 10"  E
Altitude 1651  m above sea level NHN
Blaueishütte (Bavaria)
Blue Ice Hut
owner Berchtesgaden section of the German Alpine Club
Construction type hut
Usual opening times Mid May to mid October
accommodation 20 beds, 64  camps
Web link blauishuette.de
Hut directory ÖAV DAV

The Blaueishütte is an Alpine Club hut in the Berchtesgaden section of the German Alpine Club below the Blaueis Glacier on the Hochkalter floor. The hut is located at an altitude of 1651  m above sea level. NHN in the lower Blaueiskar in the Berchtesgaden Alps in the Berchtesgaden National Park in the town of Ramsau near Berchtesgaden . It is the only refuge directly on the Hochkalter-Stock and is managed during the summer season, there is no winter room. The hut is often used by groups for climbing courses.

history

In October 1922, the Hochland section of the DuÖAV opened a self-catering hut with around 30 camps around 100 meters above the current location. In 1937 the hut was extended and rebuilt.

After the war, the section planned to take over the larger Wehrmacht building , which was closer to the present-day steelworks and was no longer used . Before that happened, however, the building was destroyed by arson by hunters in May 1946 at the behest of forester Georg Küßwetter from Ramsau , and the foundation walls were later blown up to prevent rebuilding. Küßwetter saw hunting privileges in danger and wanted to keep tourists, whom he disparagingly referred to as "mountain mob", away from the Hochkalter area and its hunting grounds. The 1952 trial against him had aroused nationwide attention. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in September 1952. The move, which he prevented, required additional extensions and structural changes to the hut, which were carried out in 1952 and 1953.

At the end of 1955, extreme mountaineer Hermann Buhl , who lived in Ramsau , discovered that the old Alpine Club hut had been destroyed to the ground by a dust avalanche . As a result, the Hochland Section built a temporary hut about 100 meters lower in the cirque at an avalanche-proof location. A year later she handed over her area of ​​work at the Hochkalter to the Berchtesgaden section after the construction of the new hut could not be financed. The section began on September 14, 1958 with the new building at the current location. On July 28, 1962, the Blaueishütte was consecrated by Julius Cardinal Döpfner , Archbishop of Munich and Freising, and given its intended purpose. The emergency hut was renovated in 1994 and is now used as an additional night camp.

Since the hut started to be managed in 1928, it has been in the hands of the Hang family from Ramsau without interruption. The first tenant, Raphael Hang, was followed in 1976 by his son of the same name as the innkeeper. In 2010 the management of the hut passed into the hands of Raphael Hang (grandson).

Accesses

The Blaueishütte can be reached relatively easily from Hintersee (800 m) in 2½ hours or Ramsau (700 m) in 2¾ hours. Both paths unite just below the Schärtenalm (1359 m), which is managed in summer, and from there continue into the cirque, finally on a narrow path to the hut.

Transitions

Mountaineering

  • Steinberg ( 2065  m ), hut summit, difficulty level I according to UIAA , not secured, walking time: 1 hour
  • Schärtenspitze ( 2153  m ), insured trail, difficulty level I according to UIAA, walking time: 1¼ hours
  • Rotpalfen / Wasserwandkopf ( 2367  m ), difficulty level II according to UIAA, not secured, walking time: 2 hours
  • Hochkalter ( 2607  m ) over normal route, difficulty level II according to UIAA, not secured, walking time: 3.5 hours
  • Hochkalter ( 2607  m ) over the Blaueis Glacier (in the ice up to 50 °, in the rock longer passages II, not secured), walking time: 3.5 hours
  • Climbing tours, for example “Blue Ice Framing” (difficulty IV according to UIAA) over the Blue Ice towers and the Blaueisspitze (5–6 hours). There is a climbing garden near the hut. The hut itself is a base for alpine rock training courses, and the Steinberg cave and the Blaueis cave can be reached from here.

Climb

In the vicinity of the hut there are around 30 climbing routes with levels of difficulty III to IX, 40 sport climbing routes from IV to IX, as well as numerous limestone blocks for bouldering.

literature

Web links

Commons : Blaueishütte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official topographic map 1: 10,000 . On the western wall of the entrance to the hut, the old nameplate gives a (false) height of 1680  m , which is still widely rumored in literature.
  2. ↑ Schaun's in Ramsau . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1952, pp. 10-12 ( online August 6, 1952).
  3. ↑ archiv.preussische-allgemeine.de On the judgment against Georg Küßwetter in the Ostpreußenblatt of September 13, 1952, under From day to day , PDF file p. 2 of 16
  4. ↑ Florian Sailer: Raphael on the steep slope . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 6, 2009, p. 30 ( sueddeutsche.de , PDF ).
  5. ↑ Neighboring huts: The Blaueishütte. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Alpine and Plaisier Climbing: The Blaueishütte. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Sport climbing and bouldering: The Blaueishütte. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .