Darmstädter Hut (St. Anton am Arlberg)

Darmstädter Hütte DAV refuge  category  I
The Darmstädter Hütte in 2011
location	Moostal; Tyrol , Austria
Mountain range	Verwall group
Geographical location:	47 ° 3 '11 "  N , 10 ° 14' 47"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 3 '11 "  N , 10 ° 14' 47"  E
Altitude	2384  m above sea level A.
owner	DAV - Darmstadt-Starkenburg Section
Built	1889
Construction type	Refuge
Development	Freight route
Usual opening times	Beginning of July to mid-September
accommodation	19 beds, 50  camps
Winter room	8  bearings
Web link	Darmstadt hut
Hut directory	ÖAV DAV

The Darmstädter Hütte is an alpine club hut of the Darmstadt-Starkenburg section of the German Alpine Club in the municipality of St. Anton am Arlberg in the Verwall group in Tyrol .

Refuge

The Category 1 refuge is located at an altitude of 2384  m above sea level. A. im Moostal and has a total of 77 beds, 8 of which are in a winter room.

Approaches

From St. Anton am Arlberg ( 1304  m ) you can reach the Darmstädter Hütte in about 3.5 hours. The starting point is the parking lot of the old Rendlbahn (cable car). The ascent from Ischgl ( 1377  m ) over the Doppelseescharte ( 2786  m ) takes about 5 hours.

Mountaineering

• Saumspitze ( 3039  m ): walking time approx. 2.5 hours
• Scheibler ( 2978  m ): walking time approx. 2 hours
• Faselfadspitze ( 2993  m ): walking time 1½ to 2 hours, climbing UIAA II

Climbing gardens

There are seven climbing gardens near the hut .

Transitions to other huts

• Niederelbehütte via Kartell reservoir and Seßladjoch: walking time approx. 4 hours
• Niederelbehütte via Kieler Wetterhütte : walking time approx. 5½ hours
• Konstanzer Hütte via Apothekerweg and Kuchenjoch: walking time approx. 4 hours
• Friedrichshafener Hütte : walking time approx. 5–6 hours

Trivia

Approx. Just under an hour's walk above the house there are still large wreckage of a school airplane that hit the Kuchenspitze ( 3,148  m ) with five men on board in 1944 , was transported from the Kuchenferner down into the valley and, after it melted, was left on scree at an altitude of about 2,650 m.

Literature and maps

• Peter Pindur, Roland Luzian, Andreas Weiskopf: Alpine Club Leader Verwall Group . Bergverlag Rother , 10th edition, 2005, ISBN 3-7633-1251-X
• Alpine Club Card AV 28/2, 1: 25,000, Verwall Group - center
• Alpine Club Card AV 28, 1: 50,000, Verwall Group

Web links

Commons : Darmstädter Hütte  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Darmstädter Hütte on the website of the Darmstadt-Starkenburg section
• 100 years of Darmstädter Hütte 1889–1989 (PDF; 3.1 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.tt.com/panorama/wissen/13403644/gletscher-gab-neue-spuren-vom-todesflug-1944-frei