Douglasshütte
| Douglasshütte AV contract house |
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 Douglasshütte am Lünersee, assembled with the mountain station of the Lünerseebahn (back) |
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| location | At the Lünersee in the Brandnertal ; Vorarlberg ; Valley location: fire | |
| Mountain range | Rätikon | |
| Geographical location: | 47 ° 3 '34.8 " N , 9 ° 45' 16.1" E | |
| Altitude | 1979 m above sea level A. | |
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| owner | illwerke vkw AG | |
| Built | 1960 | |
| Construction type | hut | |
| Development | Cable car | |
| accommodation | 64 beds, 80 camps | |
| Winter room | none | |
| Web link | douglasshuette.at | |
| Hut directory | ÖAV DAV | |
The Douglasshütte (formerly also Douglaßhütte or Lünerseehütte ) is a mountain hut of the illwerke vkw AG in Vorarlberg . It is located at 1979 m above sea level. A. am Lünersee and can be easily reached from the mountain station of the Lünerseebahn . The hut is a contract house of the Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV).
Approach
- Lünerseebahn
- Brand Schattenlagant via the Böser Tritt path , approx. 1.5 hours
Transitions
- Heinrich Hueter Hut , approx. 2 hours
- Sarotlahütte , approx. 4 hours
- Totalphütte , approx. 1.5 hours
- Lindauer Hütte , approx. 4 hours
- Mannheimer Hütte , approx. 4 hours
- Schesaplanahütte , approx. 3.5 hours
summit
- Schesaplana ( 2965 m ), walking time approx. 3.5 hours
- Saulakopf ( 2517 m ), walking time approx. 2.5 hours
- Southern Schafgafall ( 2414 m ), walking time approx. 1.5 hours
- Kirchlispitze ( 2551 m ), walking time approx. 3 hours
history
The first Douglasshütte was (7.6 by 5.7 meters measuring) Lünerseehütte on August 28, 1871 in the presence of John Sholto Douglass (1838-1874), a Vorarlberg industrialist of Scottish descent, natural scientist and co-founder of the Vorarlberger Alpenverein, as one of the opened the first managed refuges in the Eastern Alps and named after Douglass in 1875. This building was destroyed by a dust avalanche in the winter of 1876/77 . The new building (protected from avalanches), the shell of which was completed in early September 1877, was expanded several times and was extremely successful economically. The 1969 m above sea level. A. . The lying place of that hut was flooded when the Lünersee was first flooded in 1959. In 1960, today's hut was opened as a replacement building on a slightly higher and avalanche-protected place on the Seebord, a rock bar that borders the Lünersee to the north. Until the transfer of ownership to the Vorarlberger Illwerke in 2009, there was also a winter room in the Douglasshütte. The house is usually managed from around mid / late May to around mid October. The cable car is in operation during operating hours.
Literature and Sources
- Manfred Hunziker: Ringelspitz / Arosa / Rätikon , Alpine Tours / Bündner Alps. Verlag des SAC , 2010, ISBN 978-3-85902-313-0 , p. 534.
- Günther Flaig: Alpine Club Guide Rätikon. Bergverlag Rudolf Rother , Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7633-1098-3 .
- Compass hiking map 1: 35,000, sheet 032, Montafon, ISBN 3-85491-614-0 .
- National map of Switzerland 1: 25,000, sheet 1156, Schesaplana (the Saulakopf is here in the upper right corner of the sheet)
- Austrian Map 1: 50,000, sheet 141 Feldkirch
- freytag & berndt WK 371 1: 50,000 Bludenz-Klostertal
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ OeAV homepage, list of huts
- ↑ From the Lünersee. In: Vorarlberger Volks-Blatt , No. 71/1871, September 5, 1871, p. 1 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Bludenz, August 31. (A festival on the Lünersee). In: Feldkircher newspaper. Voice of the Friends of the Constitution in Vorarlberg , No. 70/1871 (11th year), September 2, 1871, p. 2, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Guntram Jussel: Hüttengeschichte (s) . Ed .: Austrian Alpine Association, Vorarlberg Section. ( alpenverein-vlbg.at [PDF; accessed on October 24, 2009]).