Franz Senn

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Memorial plaque for Franz Senn at the mountain hut of the same name
Memorial plaque for Franz Senn at the Hotel Kleon in Vent

Franz Senn (born March 19, 1831 in Unterlängenfeld , † January 31, 1884 in Neustift in the Stubaital ) was an Austrian priest and alpinist . In 1869 he was one of the founders of the German Alpine Club and is also called the Glacier Pastor.

Life

Franz Senn, from a farming family in Ötztal, studied after attending the Jesuit grammar school in Innsbruck (until 1851) first four semesters of philosophy in Innsbruck and Munich, then theology at the seminary in Brixen . In 1856 he was ordained a priest . After years as a cooperator in Zams, Serfaus and Landeck, from 1860 his place of work was Vent in the Ötztal , which was surrounded by glaciers and opened up for tourism. Together with the mountain guide Cyprian Granbichler and others, he succeeded in making several first ascents such as the Finailspitze , Vernagtspitze and Kreuzspitze . From 1872 to 1881 Senn worked in Nauders and then in Neustift im Stubaital , where he died on January 31, 1884 and where a memorial stone still marks the place of his grave today.

When Franz Senn took over the curate of St. Jakob in Vent as curate and provisional officer in 1860 , he soon realized that the population's standard of living could only be raised by promoting tourism . His idea was to lay out paths and trails and build shelters at a time when there were hardly any maps of this vast glacier area. In 1869 he founded the German Alpine Club in Munich with three like-minded people ; this also happened because they were dissatisfied with the more scientific orientation of the Austrian Alpine Club founded in Vienna in 1862 . In 1883 his tuberculosis worsened, so he went to Meran to relax. However, he did not recover and died on January 31, 1884.

Senn is sometimes seen as the founder of tourism in Tyrol . The house where he was born on March 19, 1831 in Unterlängenfeld can still be viewed from the outside in the Ötztal. Franz Senn was still a member of the KDStV Aenania Munich in the CV .

Honors

In Längenfeld, Vent, Nauders and Neustift in the Stubaital there are monuments and memorial boards for herdsmen. The Sennkogel ( 3398  m above sea level ) in the cross ridge of the Ötztal Alps and the Franz Senn Hut in the Oberbergtal were named after him. The Franz-Senn-Weg in Vent is also named after him.

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Senn  - Collection of Images
  • Personal folder on Franz Senn (I) (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
  • Personal folder on Franz Senn (II) (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Senn, founder of the Alpine Club , print edition of the NÖN District Mödling Week 28/2012
personal data
SURNAME Senn, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glacier priest; Senn, Franz Xaverius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of tourism in Tyrol, founder of the German Alpine Association
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Längenfeld (Ötztal)
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1884
Place of death Neustift in the Stubai Valley