Frischenkofel
| Frischenkofel | ||
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 The Frischenkofel in the Carnic Alps |
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| height | 2238 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Carinthia / Friuli-Venezia Giulia border | |
| Mountains | Carnic Alps | |
| Dominance | 1.3 km → fork head | |
| Notch height | 152 m ↓ Green cutting | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 36 '35 " N , 12 ° 55' 57" E | |
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| rock | limestone | |
The Frischenkofel (Italian: Creta della Collinetta ) is a 2238 meter high mountain massif in the Carnic Alps , which is located immediately west of the Plöckenpass road . The Bergstock is located in the border area between the Austrian state of Carinthia and the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in Italy , the state border runs directly over its summit region. The name is constructed and came into literature and map material in the course of the nationalist movement after the First World War . The original name Cellon is used colloquially and locally.
history
During the First World War the Frischenkofel lay in a fiercely competitive section of the between the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy running front area . After Italy declared war on May 23, 1915, Italian troops occupied the summit ridge of the Frischenkofel and shot at the valley towns of Kötschach and Mauthen from the eastern summit .
The Mauthner Gendarmerie-Postenkommandant Simon Steinberger then climbed an unsupervised channel in the east wall with five other volunteers on June 24, 1915 and was able to overcome the Italian position on the east summit early in the morning, whereupon the remaining Italians were ignorant of the strength of the enemy withdrew to the west summit and from there could no longer threaten Kötschach-Mauthen. In July Steinberger and around 30 other men also managed to break into the Italian positions on the western summit. Steinberger and Franz Weilharter, who fell in hand-to-hand combat during this venture, were among the first to be awarded the gold medal for bravery for his achievements.
In June 1916 the Italians succeeded in retaking the Eastern Summit, threatening the Austrian positions on the Cellon shoulder. In order to be able to hold this, the Austrian positions and the supply route had to be relocated into the rock. The work continued until late autumn 1917 when the Italian front collapsed due to the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo . The Austrian defenders of the Plöckenpass were therefore able to take all Italian positions without great resistance in the course of October 28, 1917, including the Frischenkofel.
Climbs
From the Plöckenpass, the easy normal route on the Italian side leads over the Collinetta Alm and the southern slopes of the Grünen Schneid (Cresta Verde) to the summit saddle.
On the Austrian side of the border, a normal route and two via ferratas lead from the Plöckenpass directly to the Cellon shoulder, which is connected to the Italian normal route. These are the Cellon tunnel , which has been accessible since 1987 , which runs underground through a supply route built during the First World War, and the Oberst-Gressel via ferrata , which has been a sportier and more promising variant since 2009.
From the Cellon shoulder you can take the normal route, or you can choose to climb up two more via ferratas. On the one hand, the Steinbergerweg , which has been insured by the former Mauthner post commander Simon Steinberger , which has been insured since 1965, leads through the eastern gully; on the other hand, the path without borders leads over the southeast ridge to the summit area.
photos
The Frischenkofel, in the center of the picture the Plöckenpass road running at the eastern foot of the mountain
The Frischenkofel, in the background the mountains of the Carnic main ridge
literature
- Erwin Steinböck: The battles for the Plöckenpass 1915/17 . Military historical series, issue 2. Österreichischer Bundesverlag Gesellschaft mb H., Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-215-01650-8 .
