Biberacher hut
| Biberacher hut DAV hut category I. |
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 Biberacher hut from the south with winter room (right behind) and Hochkünzelspitze ( 2397 m ) |
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| location | Southwest of the Schadona Pass ; Vorarlberg , Austria ; Valley location: Schröcken | |
| Mountain range | Lechquellen Mountains | |
| Geographical location: | 47 ° 15 '28 " N , 10 ° 1' 43" E | |
| Altitude | 1846 m above sea level A. | |
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| owner | DAV - Biberach section | |
| Built | 1911; Rebuild: 1980 | |
| Construction type | Hut; Bregenzerwälderhaus | |
| Development | dirt road | |
| Usual opening times | Mid June to early October | |
| accommodation | 11 beds, 79 camps | |
| Winter room | 20 bearings | |
| Web link | Biberacher hut | |
| Hut directory | ÖAV DAV | |
The Biberacher Hut is a mountain hut of Category I in Lechquellengebirge at an altitude of 1846 m above sea level. A. It is located in the district of Sonntag in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . The hut belongs to the Biberach section of the German Alpine Club and was built in 1911. It offers a total of 110 overnight stays , including the winter room .
Location and surroundings
The hut is located southwest of the Schadona Pass ( 1840 m above sea level ), which represents a historical transition from the Bregenzerwald to the Große Walsertal . The pass is located between the Glattjöchlspitze ( 2106 m above sea level ) in the north-west and the Rothorn ( 2239 m above sea level ) in the south-east. Other peaks in the vicinity of the huts are the Gigelturm ( 2112 m above sea level ) and the Hochkünzelspitze ( 2397 m above sea level ). In addition to the municipality of Sonntag, the districts of Schoppernau and Schröcken are also close to the hut. The valley locations are Schröcken in the east and Buchboden in the west.
history
The reason for the construction of an alpine refuge by the Biberach section were the following words in the communications of the German and Austrian Alpine Club No. 17 from September 1909: "There are still areas in our Alps where you can walk for two or more days, without finding an alpine restaurant far and wide. That is the case in the Bezau - Langen area, which comprises two full day's marches . ”Then on October 31, 1909, members of the section explored a suitable place and decided on the area around the Schadona Pass. The hut was built in the style of the Bregenzerwald houses , which with its shingle cladding has largely been preserved to this day. When it opened in 1911, the hut had eleven beds and ten mattress dorms . It was also the first hut of the Alpine Club in the Lechquellen Mountains.
After the Second World War , the hut was forcibly managed by the Austrian Alpine Association. He could only use the little income from the smelter to maintain the building, which the hut suffered from. It was not until June 30, 1956 that the Biberacher Hütte came into the possession of its edification section, which also received the keys from the Vorarlberg section on September 2 . A first structural development from the years between 1965 and 1968 was the orderly water supply, a sewage treatment plant and a generator house .
The general renovation of the hut took place between July 1978 and July 1980 and cost more than 700,000 DM . The material was flown almost exclusively by helicopter to the construction site in around 800 flights. In addition to the expansion of the sleeping options to 110 beds, divided into eleven beds in four rooms, plus another three rooms with 32 storage spaces and two rooms with 47 storage spaces and 20 spaces in the winter room, the guest room was expanded. In addition, an extension was built, which among other things houses a tenant apartment. In addition, the hut received a large cellar and improved sanitary facilities. After water and wind power as well as solar energy were eliminated as energy suppliers, the Biberacher Hütte was connected to the public electricity network until 2002. In July 2011 the centenary of the hut was celebrated with a mountain service and demonstrations by the mountain rescue service . After the long-term tenant from Schröcken suddenly died in 2015, the widow gave up the lease. A tenant couple from St. Leonhard (Pitztal) has been working since 2016.
Approaches
There are various ways of accessing the Biberacher Hut, each of which comes from the Bregenzerwald and the Großer Walsertal.
The shortest approach is from Landsteg (bus stop on the Dornbirn / Bregenz - Warth - Lech bus line) on Bregenzerwaldstraße between Schoppernau and Schröcken via the gravel and, in the lower section, shady supply path in a good two hours. There are other ways to get to the hut from the Bregenzerwald from Schröcken via Braunarlfürggele ( 2145 m above sea level ) in four to five hours, from Schoppernau via Schalzbachvorsäß and Glattjöchl in 4.5 hours and from Au via Bodenvorsäß and the Töbelejoch ( 2101 m above sea level ) in about six hours. Access via the Hochschere ( 2013 m above sea level ) and the Ischkarneifürggele is also possible from the Faschinajoch and takes six to seven hours.
The accesses from the Großer Walsertal begin in Buchboden (910 m). The former toll road to the Metzgertobelalpe is only open to agricultural and forestry vehicles; private vehicles have to be parked shortly after Buchboden. From there, the ascent via the Metzgertobel and Alpschellaalpe and the Litehütte takes four hours. First of all, following the road on foot, there are two options via the Untere Ischkarneialpe, which take between three and four hours to walk. In addition, an ascent via the Überlutalpen is possible in 3½ hours.
crossing
The only neighboring hut to the Biberacher hut is the Göppinger hut ( 2245 m above sea level ). It can be reached in 4½ hours via the Litehütte, the Alpaschella Alps and the Gamsboden . An alternative would be the path to Braunarlfürggele and from there either over the Braunarlspitze ( 2649 m above sea level ) or down to the Geislinger Jägersteig , past the Butzensee and further on the Theodor-Prassler-Weg to the Göppinger Hütte. The variants require about an hour more, as well as a head for heights and surefootedness . The descent from the Braunarlspitze is unsecured.
Alpinism
Summits and tours
The Biberacher Hütte is located on two different long-distance hiking trails : the European long-distance hiking trail E4 (alpine) and the red variant of the Via Alpina . In addition, the Bregenz Forest circular hiking trail runs past the hut . It is also the starting point of the Lechquellenrunde , which continues over the Göppinger , Freiburger , Ravensburger and Stuttgarter Hut .
The local mountain the cottage is the Hochkünzelspitze. It can be climbed on a marked, partially insured route in around two hours. There are climbing difficulties of the 1st degree , surefootedness and a head for heights are necessary.
The highest mountain in the vicinity of the hut is the Braunarlspitze ( 2649 m ). It is climbed in three to four hours via the Fürggele (2145 m) and the Weimarer Steig secured with wire ropes . Here, too, you have to climb easily in grade I, you need surefootedness and a head for heights. The Hochberg (2324 m) can also be reached via the Fürggele . The most distant and marked summit ascent leads over the Töbelejoch to the Zitterklapfen ( 2403 m ). In the north flank there is a short via ferrata , on the summit ridge you have to master difficulties up to grade II. Pathless tours are Rothorn, Glattjöchlspitze and Wasserkluppe.
Climb
Climbing routes near the huts can be found on the Hochkünzelspitze (up to IV. Degree), on the Schöneberg with the Schönebergkante (VI.) And on Kilkaschrofen (up to IV.).
There is a practice climbing garden (up to V.) in the immediate vicinity of the hut . At the Gigelturm, a rock head on the way to the Hochkünzelspitze, there is another climbing garden with multi-pitch routes (up to VII.). Also on the way is the Tweety climbing garden , whose routes go up to VIII.
Section Biberach
The Biberach Alpine Club section was founded in 1896 and at the end of 2011 had 2,748 members.
photos
Location on the Schadona Pass
Scheuchzer's cotton grass with flint (2271 m) in the background
100 year celebrations
Helicopter landing at the celebrations
panorama
literature
- Pit Schiegler, Günter Kallenberg, Andi Dick: 100 years of the Biberacher Hütte - comfort in the alpine mountains. In: DAV Panorama - magazine of the German Alpine Club. 63rd Volume, No. 3, 2011, ISSN 1437-5923 , pp. 86-89 ( PDF file; 361 kB )
Web links
- Film impressions from the helicopter: Biberacher Hut
- Hut flyer (PDF; 1.4 MB) of the Biberach Alpine Club section
- Alpine Club Section Biberach
- Biberacher Hut in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying Austria: Austrian Map online (Austrian map 1: 50,000) . Retrieved March 24, 2011.
- ↑ Pit Schiegler: 100 years of the Biberacher Hütte - history. In: German Alpine Association Section Biberach: Circular. No. 68, 2011, p. 5.
- ↑ Pit Schiegler: 100 years of the Biberacher Hütte - history. In: German Alpine Association Section Biberach: Circular. No. 68, 2011, pp. 5-8.
- ↑ a b circular. No. 74, 2017, p. 8, editor: DAV section Biberach
- ↑ a b c d German Alpine Association Section Biberach: Biberacher Hut
- ^ German Alpine Association Section Biberach: Transitions ( Memento from September 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ↑ a b Pit Schiegler, Günter Kallenberg, Andi Dick: 100 years of the Biberacher Hütte - comfort in the alpine mountains. P. 88.
- ^ German Alpine Club Section Biberach: Climbing ( Memento from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ^ German Alpine Association Section Biberach: Circular. No. 69, 2012, p. 15.