Altlacher Hochkopf

Altlacher Hochkopf
	The Hochkopfhütte located 25 meters below and around 218 meters west of the summit
height	1328 m above sea level NN
location	Bavaria , Germany
Mountains	Bavarian Prealps , Karwendel
Coordinates	47 ° 33 '14 " N , 11 ° 21' 22" E Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '14 " N , 11 ° 21' 22" E
Normal way	Mountain hike from Altlach am Walchensee

The Altlacher Hochkopf is a 1328 m high mountain in the Bavarian Prealps south of the Walchensee .

The densely forested summit can be reached as an easy mountain hike from Altlach am Walchensee ( 815 m ) via the Hochkopfhütte ( 1299 m ), which is 230 meters west and 28 meters below the summit. The Hochkopfhütte, a non-public self-catering hut of the DAV section Vierseenland, was built around 1850 by King Max II of Bavaria as a hunting lodge. Later his son King Ludwig II used the Hochkopfhütte.

At the invitation of Ludwig II, Richard Wagner stayed in the hut from August 9th to 20th, 1865, only accompanied by his servant Franz Mrazek and his "good old dog" Pohl. On August 8, Wagner had already written to King Ludwig: "I take a lot of writing with me, on Siegfried's score ". When he arrived on the Hochkopf, he wrote on August 10th. the king: "How indescribably beautiful it is here, nothing could have been so healing for me ...". However, the weather turned bad, Wagner fell ill and could not work much. After all, he writes on August 17. in his brown book "... I wrote to Siegfried cleanly; the magic has been dissolved."

A plaque commemorates Wagner's stay in Altlach, where the ascent to the hut begins.

Web links

Commons : Altlach - collection of images, videos and audio files

* Eintrag über die Bergtour. Hinweis: Die Angabe, dass Wagner auf dem Hochkopf an seinem 'Parzival' gearbeitet habe, ist irrig.

Individual evidence

^ Richard Wagner: Complete Letters, Vol. 17: Letters of the year 1865 . Ed .: Martin Dürrer. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden [a. a.] 2009; especially pages 232, 235
↑ Richard Wagner: The Brown Book. Diary entries 1865 to 1882 . Ed .: Joachim Bergfeld. Atlantis Verlag, Zurich [u. a.] 1975; especially pages 56, 57.

[1] Richard Wagner: Complete Letters, Vol. 17: Letters of the year 1865 . Ed .: Martin Dürrer. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden [a. a.] 2009; especially pages 232, 235

[2] Richard Wagner: The Brown Book. Diary entries 1865 to 1882 . Ed .: Joachim Bergfeld. Atlantis Verlag, Zurich [u. a.] 1975; especially pages 56, 57.