Berndlalm

Berndlalm
location	Obersulzbachtal ; Salzburg ; Valley location:  Neukirchen am Großvenediger
Mountain range	Venediger group
Geographical location:	47 ° 11 '7 "  N , 12 ° 15' 35"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 11 '7 "  N , 12 ° 15' 35"  E
Altitude	1514  m above sea level A.
Construction type	Alpine hut ; Wood
Development	Pull way
Usual opening times	Beginning of May to mid-October
accommodation	27 beds, 17  camps
Web link	www.berndlalm.at

The Berndlalm is an alpine pasture and a managed mountain inn in the Obersulzbachtal in the municipality of Neukirchen am Großvenediger , in the Venediger Group and in the Hohe Tauern National Park .

Location and landscape

The Berndlalm is located in the middle Obersulzbachtal, at 1514  m above sea level. A. Here the previous narrow valley opens up to a gentle widening. Directly below is the Gamseckfall , with a drop of 80 meters. After the Berndlalm, the Poschalm / Schiedhofalm follows in the bottom of the valley , then the valley narrows again.

Today's inn is on the edge of the Alm, the Niederleger (called Grundalm here) is 350 meters further into the valley ( ⊙ ), the spacious Berndl-Hochalm is on the right (east) above at approx.  1640  m above sea level. A.  ( ⊙ ), on the Großer Wartkopf ( 2640  m above sea level ). To the west lies the Hütteltalkopf ( 2962  m above sea level ).

Neighboring locations

	Kampriesenalm	Finkalm
Seebachalm
	Poschalm

Berndl-Hochalm
Berndl-Hochalm from the opposite side of the valley
location	(east) above; Salzburg , Austria
Geographical location:	47 ° 11 '3.2 "  N , 12 ° 15' 56.8"  E
Altitude	1640  m above sea level A.
Construction type	Alpine hut ; Wood

geology

The Alm lies on a band of old Paleozoic slate, which stripes northeast over the Untersulzbachtal to the entrance of the Habach Valley , and here in the Obersulzbachtal forms one of the characteristic elevations: Gamseckfall as well as the Seebachfall (junction to Seebachsee just before the Alm) plunge over the slate flank , the same formation can also be found out of the valley at Hopffeldboden ( ⊙ ) (first stage of the valley). The slates ( mica slate to phyllite , down the valley also amphibolite to chlorite slate ) belong to the Habach group, a formation of the northern slate envelope. This is known in principle for its occurrence of mineral resources (e.g. gold at the Finkalm / Abichlalm in Untersulzbachtal and on the Gamskogel (Venediger group) in Habach valley, the northern copper vein - today's Hochfeld show mine near the Untersulzbacher Knappenwand), there is little left of mining here in Obersulzbachtal known. Otherwise the surrounding mountains belong entirely to the central gneiss.

The Obersulzbachtal is characterized by large landslides up to the Berndlalm, on the right-hand side out of the valley from the Berndl-Hochalm to the Kampriesenalm there are mighty postglacial debris sediments.

History, management and alpinism

"O (beres)" and "U (nteres) Sulzbach Th (al)". Franzisco-Josephinische Landesaufnahme , sheet 30–47 Bruneck , around 1900
inscribed “Wimm A.”

In the 19th century, the Alm was still called Wimmalm , Wimmer Alm or Wimmer Alpe . Today it is owned by the Hofer family from Neukirchen, whose home is the Berndlalm house .

The original alpine hut was converted into an inn for hospitality and overnight stays for guests, which is now very popular. There is also a petting zoo here.

Until about 1975 there was only a footpath from the Hopffeldboden ( ⊙ ) to the Alm. It was only with the construction of a pull path that management became easier. The access to the Alm is now closed to private traffic. If necessary, a hut taxi drives from the Hopffeldboden to the Alm for guests.

In 1981 a mountaineering chapel was built near the Alm. Since 1983 the alp has been part of the national park area (buffer zone).

The approach to Gasthof Berndlalm is from Neukirchen or Wald im Pinzgau through the Obersulzbachtal (around 3 hours) or from the Hopffeldboden car park (around 1.5 hours). The path along the Sulzbachtal is part of the Salzburg- wide Arnoweg . The Berndlalm is the starting point for a number of high alpine tours, including to the Kürsingerhütte and to the Großer Geiger , Großvenediger and Kleinvenediger .
The Bettlersteig leads directly from the hut in about two hours over the Berndl-Hochalm to the Bettlerscharte and down to the Finkalm and Stockeralm in the Untersulzbachtal .

Web links

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

• Homepage of the Berndlalm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Austrian Geological Map , ÖGK200 sheet Salzburg and ÖGK50 sheet Krimml , see also accompanying explanation and recording reports ;
   detailed also Leopold Kölbl: The northeast end of the Großvenediger massif . (A contribution to the question of the Tauern window ). In: Session reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and scientific class . Department 1st volume 141 . Vienna 1932, p. 43 ( PDF on ZOBODAT - full article, pp. 39–66).
2. ↑ Erich Seefeldner; Society for Salzburg regional studies (ed.): Salzburg and its landscapes: a geographical regional studies. Volume 2 of communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , supplementary volume , Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, Salzburg 1961, p. 120.
3. ↑ The Wimmeralpe is already recorded in the Franciscan cadastre around 1830, in the Franzisco-Josephinische Landesaufnahme (sheet 30–47 Bruneck 1898/1905) it is registered as Wimm A. The former as a map layer on SAGIS online, the latter see file: Bruneck - 30-47.jpg .
4. ^ House Berndlalm .
5. ^ Ingo Mose: Gentle tourism in the Hohe Tauern National Park: Problems and perspectives, using the example of Upper Oberpinzgau (Land Salzburg) . Volume 6 of Vechtaer works on geography and regional science . Vechtaer Druckerei und Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-88441-080-6 , p. 83 ff .
6. ↑ The hut taxis are a facility of the national park administration in several valleys to provide public transport for visitors. National park taxis at nationalpark.at.
7. ↑ Moses: Gentle Tourism . 1988, p. 59 .
8. ↑ Reichenspitz, Venediger, Granatspitz, Glockner and Goldberg groups in Salzburg with the Salzburg National Park Act. LGBl. No. 106/1983.
9. ↑ Section 3 - The Keesberge (Part 1). In: arnoweg.com. Retrieved December 15, 2012 .