Kesmarker tip

Kesmarker tip
Kesmarker lace, in the background the weaver lace
height	2558  m
location	Slovakia
Mountains	High Tatras
Coordinates	49 ° 11 '56 "  N , 20 ° 13' 12"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '56 "  N , 20 ° 13' 12"  E
First ascent	David Frölich

The Kesmarkerspitze ( Slovak Kežmarský štít , Polish Kieżmarski Szczyt , Hungarian Késmárki-csúcs ) is a 2558 m high peak of the High Tatras .

topography

The Kesmarker Spitze lies at the fork of two ridges, one running southeast over the Hunsdorfer Scharte ( Slovak : Huncovské sedlo ) in the direction of the Huncovský štít , the other to the north to the Weberspitze ( Malý Kežmarský štít , also German: Kleine Kesmarker Spitze) leading. The Vyšná Kežmarská Štrbina is located between the Kesmarker point and the weaver point . The weaver's tip falls to the north with the German ladder ( Nemecký rebrík ) to the Green Lake ( Zelené pleso ), to the northeast, the lower Kesmarker ridge ( Kežmarská kopa ) joins the weaver's tip .

Between the Kesmarker point and the Hunsdorfer point there are the Kesmarker shoulder ( Kežmarská Priehyba ), the Kesmarker hump ( Kežmarský hrb ), the lower Kesmarker shoulder ( Nižná Kežmarská Priehyba ), and the small Kesmarker hump ( Maly Kežmarský ). In the southwest of Kežmarok tip is the Big fork tip ( Veľká Vidlová veža ) and the Lomnicky Peak ( Lomnický štít ).

Looking clockwise, the massif falls in the northwest to the Kupferkessel ( Medená kotlina ), to the Great Papirustal ( Veľká Zmrzlá dolina ), in the north to the Kesmarkertal ( Dolina Kežmarskej Bielej vody ), in the east to the Hunsdorfer mine ( Huncovská kotlinka over the ), and in the south Garden of the Dead ( Cmiter ) to Steinbachtal ( Skalnatá dolina ).

The massif consists of granite , in which there are some climbing routes. The north-western rock face of the summit of the Kesmarker Spitze rises 500 m above the Kupferkessel. This rock face is cut by the copper banks ( Medené lávky ) at a third of the height . The wall is bounded to the north by a channel starting from the Upper Kesmarker Scharte. In contrast, the rock faces that slope down to the Hunsdorfer Grube in the southeast are not very steep. The rock walls in the southwest and in the south, which converge in the upper area to the garden of the dead, however, drop 500 to 550 m into the Steinbach valley and are separated from each other by the Mogilnicki pillars. From the south face of the neighboring Kesmarker Höcker the south face of the Kesmarker Spitze is bounded by the deep gorge of the Upper Kesmarker Scharte ( Vyšná Kežmarská štrbina ) and the gully that widens it.

Ascent

The best ascent leads from the side of the Kesmarker Scharte to the summit, from the Ratzenbergjoch, over the Weberspitze or from the Hunsdorfer Grube and the Hunsdorfer Scharte. A large part of the ascent can also be shortened by taking the Tatralomnitz cable car .

history

The name of the summit refers to the place Käsmark in the Spiš , not far from the High Tatras, from which the first climber David Fröhlich, then a high school student, came. In Delineatio Nomenclatura Montium Carpathicorum the summit appeared as Kesmarkter Spitze , a Polish name first appeared in 1845 as Wirch Kiezmarski . The Weberspitze got its name in 1894. The next ascent of the Kesmarkerspitze is attested for June 1654, when Daniel Speer climbed the summit together with four other students and a guide named Gärtner. In the 18th century there was mining on the north slopes of the massif. The term German ladder probably comes from the time when German miners were mining there. The ascent by the botanist Eustach Wołoszczak on August 9, 1858 is known from later times. A report about the ascent of the Kesmarker peak in 1890 was written by Samuel Weber. Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth and Alfred Martin were the first to climb the Kesmarker Spitze in winter on March 8, 1906.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Hochberger: The names of the High Tatras in four languages: origin and meaning . Ed .: Karpatendeutsches Kulturwerk Slovakia. 2007.
2. ↑ SE ridge of the Kesmarker peak. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Kieżmarski Szczyt. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .  
4. ↑ Georg Buchholtz Jr .: Delineatio Nomenclatura Montium Carpathicorum, qualiter sese Lomnitzæ conspiciendi sistunt. 1717. In: Ivan Houdek: Osudy Vysokých Tatier. 1951. ( Online at maps.hungarica.hu)
5. ↑ Witold Henryk Paryski: Tatry Wysokie. Przewodnik taternicki. Część XXII. Wyżnia Miedziana Przełączka - Mała Rakuska Czubka . Ed .: Sport i Turystyka. Warsaw 1979, ISBN 83-217-2203-2 , p. 66-113 .
6. ↑ Józef Nyka: Tatry słowackie. Przewodnik. Wyd. VI . Trawers, Latchorzew 2008, ISBN 978-83-60078-05-1 , pp. 384 .
7. ↑ Samuel Weber: The ascent of the Kesmarker peak . ( oszk.hu [PDF]).