Dalfaz walls
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 The Dalfaz walls as seen from the Erfurter Hütte |
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| height | 2233 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Tyrol , Austria | |
| Mountains | Brandenberg Alps | |
| Dominance | 0.68 km → Streichkopf | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 27 '12 " N , 11 ° 45' 13" E | |
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 Dalfaz walls from the south. In front of it the mountain station of the Rofanbahn and the Erfurter Hütte |
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 The southern end of the Dalfazer walls with the Rotspitze, seen from the east |
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The Dalfazer Walls are a north-south running rocky ridge in the Rofan Mountains , a subgroup of the Brandenberg Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol . It takes its name from the massive rock faces made of different colored layers of rock on the east side, which dominate the area northeast of the Erfurter Hütte . From the west, green meadows and crags stretch just below the summit of the ridge. The Dalfazer Walls are a popular excursion and climbing area that is accessible to tourists by a cable car from Maurach am Achensee . At the Rotspitze , at the southern end of the ridge, climbers will find numerous routes with medium to high levels of difficulty.
Surroundings
The Dalfazer walls begin in the north at the 2243 meter high Streichkopf in the west-east running Rofan main ridge . They form a mountain ridge that is almost two kilometers long and has some prominent peaks from north to south. The Dalfazer Joch is the highest point of the walls at 2233 meters. To the south follow the Dalfazer Köpfln (2208 m), the 2210 meter high Dalfazer Wall , the Yellow Wall (2163 m), the Dalfazer Roßkopf with 2143 meters and to the south the Rotspitze , which dominates the southern Achensee panorama with its south wall , 2067 meters high.
geology
The subsoil of the Rofan consists of the hard rock, the main dolomite , which in the higher area merges into numerous weathered layers of the plate limestone of the multi-colored Kössen layers . The numerous alpine pastures and meadows of the Rofan lie on this fertile subsoil from the weathering products. The scale-shaped Oberratskalke from the Upper Triassic lie on the Kössen layers . The overlying reddish colored limestone from marine deposits of the geological series Lower Jurassic form the rock of the Rotspitze in layers. The stalk members of the sea lilies are particularly well represented in fossils , but also ammonites .
Tourist development
Since the area was settled early due to its fertile soil and the elevations are easy to climb from the west, there are no records of first ascents of the Dalfaz walls. A dense network of hiking trails leads through the whole area and the walls are easy to reach from the Erfurter Hütte , at 1831 meters north above Maurach. The construction of the 650 meter long Rofan cable car, completed in 1959, made a significant contribution to the development . The first alpine climbers appeared on the Dalfaz walls from 1912. The southern edge of the Rotspitze, the southernmost point of the Dalfaz walls, was first climbed in 1931 by Matthias Rebitsch . Numerous new routes were opened on the Rotspitzen south face from the 1950s to the mid-1980s. In 2002, H. Marbler and H. Salvenmoser mastered the UIAA VIII + level of difficulty with their route shadowy existence .
Literature and map
- Helmut Bögel, Klaus Schmidt: Small geology of the Eastern Alps , Ott-Verlag, Thun 1976
- Röder, Schmid, from Werden: Alpine Club Guide Rofangebirge - Brandenberger Alps , Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7633-1240-4
- Hannes Salvenmoser, Mike Rutter: Rofan climbing guide , Panico-Alpinverlag, Köngen 2003, ISBN 978-3-93674-005-9
- Alpine Club Map 1: 25,000, sheet 6, Rofan
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Bögel, Klaus Schmidt: Small geology of the Eastern Alps , Ott-Verlag, Thun 1976
- ↑ http://www.rofanseilbahn.at/
- ^ Röder, Schmid, von Werden: Alpenvereinsführer Rofangebirge - Brandenberger Alpen , Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7633-1240-4 , p. 200 ff
- ^ Uli Auffermann: Mathias Rebitsch - free climber and free thinker. bergnews.com, accessed January 18, 2009 .
- ↑ Hannes Salvenmoser, Mike Rutter: Climbing Guide Rofan , Panico-Alpinverlag, Köngen 2003, ISBN 978-3-93674-005-9 , p. 60