Granatenkogel
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 in the middle of the high ridge, the right of the massive Granatenkogel, from Timmelsjochstraße in Seewertal seen from |
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| height | 3318 m | |
| location | South Tyrol , Italy / Tyrol , Austria | |
| Mountains | Ötztal Alps | |
| Dominance | 1.09 km → Hochfirst | |
| Notch height | 177 m ↓ Scharte to Hochfirst | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 50 '18 " N , 11 ° 4' 14" E | |
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| First ascent | August 5, 1878 tourist by Alexander von Worafka and PP Gstrein | |
| Normal way | Obergurgl, Ferwalltal, Eastern Ferwallferner and northwest ridge | |
 Granatenkogel, northwest flank, as of April 2011 |
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The Granatenkogel is a 3318, according to other sources, 3304 meter high mountain in the Ötztal Alps , which lies exactly on the north-south border between the Austrian state of Tyrol and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol . It bears its name because of the minerals of the garnet group occurring in the area . The massive looking Kogel, consisting in places of brittle rock, sends pronounced ridges to the northwest, north and southeast, some of which carry the ascent routes to the summit. The pre-summit of the Granatenkogel was first climbed in the 1850s as part of the military land survey, the first tourist on the main summit was the Austrian naturalist and government councilor Alexander Ritter von Worafka, led by PP Gstrein on August 5, 1878 .
Location and surroundings
The Granatenkogel lies between the Gurgler Valley and the Seebertal in the Gurgler Kamm , a part of the Ötztal main ridge , which here, running north-south, bears the state border between Austria and Italy. The flanks on the South Tyrolean side are part of the Texel Group Nature Park . It is surrounded by glaciers in the northeast and southwest . On its southwest flank, known as the shell wall, is a mineral discovery site. Nearby is extending Gaisberg addition of Kogel, northwest, the pulling Eastern Ferwallferner up to a height of 3100 meters and separated from it by the north ridge, located in the northeast of crevassed grenades addition . Neighboring mountains are the 3035 meter high Festkogel in the northwest ridge and the Königskogel with 3055 meters in the northern ridge . Immediately to the southeast, separated by the Granatenscharte (3176 m), is the 3200 meter high Essenerspitze and the Hochfirst , 3403 meters high. The next permanently inhabited settlements are the North Tyrolean Obergurgl , which is about five kilometers as the crow flies in a north-westerly direction and the South Tyrolean Pfelders , 5 km south-southeast.
Tourist development
The path of the first climbers in 1878 led from Obergurgl in a south-easterly direction through the Ferwall valley , over the eastern Ferwall glacier and the north-west ridge up to the summit. Today this path is seldom used because there is a risk of falling rocks in the upper part . According to the literature, the walking time from Obergurgl is around five hours. Further increases lead through the northwest wall (300 meters of altitude , rock / ice combined at 50 °), the north wall (rock / ice 45 °) and the east wall, which climbing skills in difficulty UIAA III requires. Further climbing routes lead over the ridges, since 1897 via the north-north-east ridge with a key point in the difficulty level UIAA III and since 1894 over the south-east ridge, from the Granatenscharte, in the difficulty UIAA III with the risk of falling rocks if the Essener peak is not exceeded.
Literature and map
- Walter Klier : Alpine Club Guide Ötztaler Alpen Bergverlag Rother , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7633-1123-8
- Alpine Club Map 1: 25,000, sheet 30/1, Ötztal Alps, Gurgl
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Klier: Alpine Club Guide Ötztaler Alpen , Munich 2006, p. 351
- ^ Announcements of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, Munich 1878, p. 209
- ^ Walter Klier: Alpine Club Guide Ötztaler Alpen , Munich 2006, p. 352 ff.
