Gatterlmesse
The Gatterlmesse is an annual commemorative mass on the Zugspitzgatterl , a gap ( 2024 m above sea level ) in the Wettersteinkamm between the Gatterlköpf and the Hochwanner (also the border between Germany and Austria ), in memory of four German border police officers who were on duty in 1952 looking for missing people died in an avalanche.
It has been held every year since 1953 on the second Sunday in September to commemorate all police officers and mountain tourists who have had an accident. The interior ministers of the Free State of Bavaria and the Republic of Austria are usually present. The organizer is the police headquarters of Upper Bavaria South .
Gatterlhütte
The Knorrhütte is located north of the Zugspitzgatterl . On the way from the Knorrhütte to the Gatterl there is a former customs hut of the Federal Customs Administration ( Lage ), which no longer serves its original purpose since the opening of the borders, but the winter training of the Federal Customs officials and as quarters for the customs sports group. The Gatterlhütte , a hut belonging to the Bavarian police, which was destroyed by an avalanche in March 2002, was located 200 meters from the Zollhütte and 500 meters from the Gatterl . The Gatterlhütte should be rebuilt at a cost of between € 40,000 and € 100,000. It was assumed that the Gatterlhütte should serve as a shelter and food store for the high-ranking guests of the Gatterlmesse, but the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior said that the new Gatterlhütte was needed for winter police training. In the end, however, the hut was not rebuilt.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Parliament - 14th electoral term. Plenary minutes 14/121. (PDF; 1.1 MB) July 9, 2003, pp. 8940-8942 , accessed on December 1, 2010 (request by Ruth Paulig , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).
- ↑ Peter Reinbold: Rejection of the new construction of the Gatterlhütte. In: merkur-online.de. August 30, 2004, accessed December 1, 2010 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ' N , 11 ° 1' E