Hörndlwand
| Hörndlwand | ||
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 The Hörndlwand near Ruhpolding |
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| height | 1684 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Bavaria , Germany | |
| Mountains | Bavarian Alps ( Chiemgau Alps ) | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 42 '26 " N , 12 ° 35' 10" E | |
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| Normal way | Seehaus - Branderalm - Ostertal - Hörndlwand | |
 Summit on February 21, 2004. An extreme foehn weather with wind peaks of up to 150 km / h in connection with a severe storm in North Africa makes the sky in the Alps red-colored by desert sand. |
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The 1684 m above sea level. NN high Hörndlwand is part of the Chiemgau Alps and, thanks to its rocky tooth, is the most striking summit between Ruhpolding and Reit im Winkl .
Access
The Hörndlwand, also Hochkienberg or Seehauser Kienberg , can be climbed relatively easily via a marked trail by sure-footed and vertigo-free mountain hikers. At the summit there are three summit crosses , one of which (east summit) can only be reached by climbing. Some sport climbing routes lead through the 200 m high north face .
The normal route begins in Seehaus between Ruhpolding and Reit im Winkl. First you follow a moderately rising hiking trail that leads over a small valley and past waterfalls up to the Branderalm . From there it goes on a narrow path, again through the forest to a fork in the road, where you have to decide. Either the slightly easier normal route to the left via the Ostertal and the south side or right towards Hörndlalm , then on to the Jägersteig, which is partly exposed, and over the north ridge to the summit. Both variants are about the same length and meet again just below the summit, which is reached after a total of 2.5 hours. From the summit you have a beautiful view: in the east of the Staufen , the Berchtesgaden Alps and the Sonntagshorn , in the south the Dürrnbachhorn , the Loferer Steinberge , the Steinplatte and the Kaiser Mountains , in the west the Geigelstein and the Mangfall Mountains and in the north the Hochgern , the Chiemsee and the Hochfelln .
Other routes to the Hörndlwand:
- From Lödensee via the dilapidated Hochkienbergalm and the south side to the summit in 2.5 hours (difficult to find!)
- From Weitsee via the Röthelmoosalm , the dilapidated Hochkienbergalm and the south side to the summit in 3 hours (medium)
- From Urschlau (east of Ruhpolding) via the Hörndlalm and the north side to the summit in around 2.5 hours (medium)
- From the Unterberg, to which a chairlift leads from Ruhpolding, via the Branderalm to the summit in 3 hours (easy to the Branderalm, then depending on the variant as described above)
geology
Like the Rauschberg, the summit structure of the Hörndlwand consists of light gray to white, around 230 million years old Central Triassic Wetterstein limestone ( Ladinium / Langobardium ). The Wetterstein limestone is a predominantly compact reef limestone , which can be up to 800 meters thick on the Hörndlwand (700 meters on the Rauschberg) and reaches up to the border with the Carnium . This is an almost pure lime with 99% CaCO 3 , which also shows very strong traces of karstification (with karst hollow forms).
In fossils, the Wetterstein limestone can contain calcareous algae (Wirtelalga Diplopora), calcareous sponges (Tubiphytes), Sclerospongiae , corals , foraminifera , stromatolites and remains of shell fragments from snails and mussels (Daonella). The reefs originated in the north of what was then the Tethys region on the southern shelf edge of Europe.
The Wettersteinkalk can be divided into the three sections Lower, Middle and Upper Wettersteinkalk. The Lower Wetterstein Limestone, only a few tens of meters thick, is stratified and contains several dark layers of dolomite and so-called Grossooliths . The middle Wetterstein limestone is massive and compact and is up to 650 meters thick. The Upper Wetterstein Limestone reaches 100 meters; It is a well-banked limestone, with the individual limestone banks 2 to 5 meters thick and separated by thin dolomite bands. The top two meters below the Raibler layers form rhythmites with alternating lime-dolomite layers .
Structurally, the Hochkienberg massif is the dragging of a competent layer member (disturbed saddle structure). Immediately in front of the northern wall foot of the Hörndlwand the east-north-east-striking steep upheaval of the Tyrolean Staufen-Höllengebirgs blanket runs over the Bavarian Lech Valley blanket - an important tectonic boundary in the Northern Limestone Alps . The south side of the saddle structure drops off quite steeply towards the Lödensee . Distinctive disturbances run through the saddle core .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doben, K .: Explanations for the geological map GK 8242 Inzell . Bavarian Geological State Office, Munich 1973, p. 1-124 .
- ↑ Henrich, R .: The Wetterstein Limestone on the northwestern edge of the Tyrolean arch in the northern Limestone Alps: the latest advance of a shallow water platform at the beginning of the Upper Triassic . In: Geol. Et Palaeont. tape 17 . Marburg 1983, p. 137-177 .
- ↑ Hellerer, HO: Geology of the Hochkienberg and its surroundings in the Chiemgau Alps. - Unpublished Diploma thesis TH Munich, Munich 1964, p. 64 .
