Gamskarkogelhütte
| Gamskarkogelhütte ÖAV hut category I |
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.jpg) The Gamskarkogelhütte (also Badgasteiner Hütte) |
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| Mountain range | Ankogel Group | |
| Geographical location: | 47 ° 9 '39.6 " N , 13 ° 9' 30.5" E | |
| Altitude | 2467 m above sea level A. | |
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| owner | Bad Gastein section of the PES | |
| Built | 1828 | |
| Construction type | Hut; Wood | |
| Development | Hiking trail, material cable car | |
| Usual opening times | Mid-June to the end of September (depending on the weather) | |
| accommodation | 9 beds, 12 camps , if everything is full, also emergency camps | |
| Winter room | 4 bearings | |
| Web link | Hut on the section website | |
| Hut directory | ÖAV DAV | |
The Gamskarkogelhütte (also Badgasteiner Hütte ) is a refuge at 2,467 m above sea level. A. in Grossarltal at the summit of the Gamskarkogel in the Ankogel group . It is owned by the Bad Gastein section of the Austrian Alpine Club and is located in the municipality of Bad Hofgastein in the Pongau district of the Austrian state of Salzburg .
history
The building dates back to 1828 and was the first refuge in the entire Eastern Alps. It is one of the oldest mountain huts in the Alpine region and one source even mentions “Europe's oldest mountain hut”. Even if the term "refuge" is a bit vague, the last-mentioned statement in this absolute form is an exaggeration, because the Salmhütte on the Großglockner was built almost 30 years earlier and the Wiesenbaude in the Giant Mountains as early as 1623 or 1625.
The following emerges from the Hütten land register of 1882, the handwritten entries of which are noted in Sütterlin :
Built by Erzh. Johann , later repaired by S. Pongau, then came into the possession of S. Gastein, who later owned it in 1898? handed over to the ÖTC (?)
In today's parlance, one can speak a little less submissively that the building of the hut was built on behalf of the Archduke. The monarch visited the Gastein Valley almost every year from 1822 to 1859 and was a guest with his hunting party many times.
The hut was assembled on the Rastötzenalm 700 meters below, then dismantled into individual parts, brought to the summit with the help of horses and finally reassembled there.
In 1829 the Archduke had a footpath laid out from Bad Gastein on the Gamskarkogel and thus laid another foundation stone for the tourist development of the area.
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The picture on the left was artfully put on paper by Johann chamber painter Thomas Ender . It shows the archducal family having a picnic with their entourage on the Gamskarkogel.
In front of the grandiose backdrop of the Tauern: “The builder of the hut, explaining the mountains (from the left: Sonnblick, Hocharn, Großglockner to Wiesbachhorn); in the foreground his wife Anna, b. Plochl ".
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↑ S. is the abbreviation for section .
Today's "ÖTK" (Austrian Tourist Club) was called "ÖTC" (Austrian Tourist Club) until the spelling reform in 1903 .
tourism
There are various tours to the hut or to the Gamskarkogel . The hut is managed in summer; in winter it offers a winter room for ski tourers .
The hut serves as an important base for hikers on the Zentralalpenweg , an Austrian long-distance hiking trail from Hainburg an der Donau to Feldkirch .
"Highest grass mountain in Europe"
The Gamskarkogel is advertised as the “highest grass mountain in Europe” by the tenants of the Badgasteiner Hütte. Other Salzburg hut owners and tourism associations promote the Geißstein ( Bürglhütte ) and the Hundstein (Maria Alm) as the “highest grass mountain in Europe”, although in all three cases it remains unclear how a “grass mountain” is defined. Similar to the " Pinzgauer Grasberge ", the name is supposed to emphasize the contrast to the bare slopes of the main Alpine ridge.
Web links
- Hut website
- Gamskarkogel hut in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
- Badgasteiner Hütte in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
- Hiking suggestion with many pictures and tour plan
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b In the footsteps of Archduke Johann to the highest grass mountain in Europe ( Memento from August 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hut on gasteinertal.com
- ^ Hut land register 1882 , Historical Alpine Archive (PDF)
- ↑ Gastein in the picture - hiking trails Gasteinertal - Bad Hofgastein, Gamskarkogel
- ↑ Arnowegführer, CM Hutter, Bergverlag Rother
- ↑ 2467 meters - Der Gamskarkogel ( memento from June 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed on September 8, 2012
- ↑ Almgasthof Bürglhütte
- ↑ Maria Alm ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )