Dreiländerspitze
| Dreiländerspitze | ||
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 Dreiländerspitze with Vermunt Glacier |
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| height |
3197 m above sea level A. 3197 m above sea level M. |
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| location | Tyrol and Vorarlberg , Austria and Graubünden , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Silvretta | |
| Dominance | 1.9 km → Piz Buin | |
| Notch height | 304 m ↓ Urezzasjoch | |
| Coordinates , ( CH ) | 46 ° 51 '3 " N , 10 ° 8' 41" O ( 806 347 / 192 414 ) | |
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| First ascent | July 14, 1870 by Theodor Petersen and two unknown companions | |
| Normal way | from the Wiesbadener hut over the upper Ochsenscharte, the west flank and the upper west ridge | |
The Dreiländerspitze is 3197 m above sea level. A. the highest mountain in the Dreiländerspitzgruppe in the Silvretta , a mountain range in the central eastern Alps . The tip got its name because of its location on the border of the three tribes Rhaeto-Romanic , Bavarian and Alemannic and their languages. The state border between the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the Austrian states of Vorarlberg and Tyrol runs in a west-east direction over the two peaks of the Dreiländerspitze. It sends pronounced ridges to the west, north, east and southwest, of which only the west ridge has no border. Due to its outstanding position within the area, its easy accessibility from three surrounding refuges and the slight ascent, it is a popular mountain with a view. The first documented ascent of the less difficult and slightly lower western summit was carried out on July 14, 1870 by the German alpinist Theodor Petersen from Frankfurt am Main, together with the village teacher and a boy from Guarda from the southern Val Tuoi (Tuoi valley).
Location and surroundings
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Location of the three-country peak in the Silvretta |
The Dreiländerspitz group lies in the center of the Silvretta and is a mountain group that extends from the Vermunt Pass ( 2797 m ) in the west to the Urezzasjoch ( 2906 m ) in the east. Its outstanding peaks, in addition to the Dreiländerspitze, when viewed from the west, are Piz Mon with a height of 2982 meters and the Piz Jeremias, 3136 meters high . East of the Dreiländerspitze rise the Vordere Jamspitze with 3178 meters and, separated from this by the Jamjoch ( 3078 m ), the Hintere Jamspitze with 3156 meters. In the north, separated by the Untere ( 2913 m ) and Obere Oschsenscharte ( 2977 m ), lie the 3057 meter high Ochsenkopf and north of the Tiroler Scharte ( 2935 m ) the Tiroler Kopf at 3105 meters. In the south, the Piz Tuoi ( 3,084 m ) and the 3,065 m high Piz Urezzas protrude from the ridge. The Rhine-Danube watershed for the Ill and Inn rivers runs over the Dreiländerspitze . The next settlements in the north of the 14 kilometers in a straight line away Galtür and Guarda , south about 9 kilometers Unterengadintal located.
Development and Tourism
Theodor Petersen and his two companions were not the first on the summit of the Dreiländerspitze in 1870, they found a so-called signal pole that had been placed there on the occasion of the national survey in the 1850s. Petersen's route led from the Tuoi Valley in the south up to the Vermunt Pass. There one turned to the right (east) over the Vermunt glacier to the west ridge and reached the western, lower, summit of the peak, climbing at times with difficulty . The descent led you back to the Vermunt glacier and further west past the Piz-Buin -Nordgrat over the Silvretta glacier down to the then already existing Silvretta hut at an altitude of 2341 meters. C. Blezinger and C. Stedefeld from Prague did not reach the eastern, somewhat higher and strongly jagged summit of the Dreiländerspitze until August 1882.
Today's normal route (slightest ascent) only follows the uppermost part of the route from Petersen and his companions. The Wiesbadener Hut in the northwest at an altitude of 2,443 meters has served as a base for ascent over the western flank and the upper western ridge . The path from there initially leads in a south-easterly direction up to the Obere Ochsenscharte and over the north-west flank and the upper west ridge in a walking time of, according to literature, about three hours to the summit. Some firn fields are committed. The climbing passages are UIAA I difficulty . From the Tuoihütte ( 2250 m ) to the south, following Petersen's route, you can also climb to the Dreiländerspitze, or from the Jamtalhütte , 2165 m , to the northeast, over the Jamtalferner and the Obere Ochsenscharte, sometimes as an alpine tour .
The mountain is often climbed on skis in spring. (Ski depot on the west ridge, the ascent from there is partially exposed and tricky, ice ax and / or crampons are advisable, as there may be places with hard snow or icing on the summit ridge.)
See also
Literature and map
- Günther Flaig : Alpine Club Guide Silvretta. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7633-1097-5 .
- Alpine club map 1: 25,000, sheet 26, Silvretta group.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto von Pfister, The Silvretta Group in The Development of the Eastern Alps , Volume II, Verlag des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenverein, Berlin 1894, p. 28 f.
- ^ Günther Flaig: Alpine Club Guide Silvretta. Bergverlag Rother , Munich 2005, p. 214 f.