Habsburg house

Habsburghaus ÖAV refuge  category  I
The Habsburg House on the Rax (southeast view)
location	approx. 1.7 km west of the Scheibwaldhöhe ( Rax ); Lower Austria / Styria ; Valley location:  Naßwald
Mountain range	Rax
Geographical location:	47 ° 42 '48 "  N , 15 ° 41' 56"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '48 "  N , 15 ° 41' 56"  E
Altitude	1786  m above sea level A.
owner	Austrian Mountain Association of the PES
Built	1899
Construction type	Refuge
Usual opening times	Beginning of May - end of October
accommodation	24 beds, 84  camps
Winter room	6  bearings
Web link	Habsburg house at the Alpine Club
Hut directory	ÖAV DAV

The Habsburghaus is a refuge of the Austrian Mountain Association section of the PES and is located on the Rax high plateau at 1786  m above sea level. A. on the border between Lower Austria and Styria .

location

The Habsburghaus is located on the Grieskogel, west of the Scheibwaldhöhe ( 1943  m ), the third highest elevation on the Rax plateau. About 2.7 km south of the Habsburg House is the Heukuppe ( 2007  m ), the highest peak of the Rax.

history

The new building was tourist and gastronomical, that the circumlocution location, existing since 1876 Pehoferalmhütte replace. The inauguration ( laying of the keystone ) of the “ vom n.-ö. Mountain clubs (note: this refers to the Lower Austrian Mountain Club ) on the Grieskogel (1800 meters) built anniversary refuge ”took place on Sunday, September 24th, 1899. In the 1960s, work began on expanding the house to its current state, which, however, dragged on into the 1970s due to a lack of funds.

In order to be able to supply the house better, a material ropeway was built from the Reiss valley (Hinternaßwald) in 1963 .

In 1925 a truncated pyramid-shaped monument was erected in memory of Daniel Innthaler , the developer of the bald walls , immediately south of the house .

Jahnkreuz

A small iron cross is just a few minutes' walk from the Habsburg House. It is reminiscent of the hut keeper Karl Jahn, who on February 8, 1919, when he was fetching provisions from the Karl-Ludwig-Haus, got caught in a snow storm on the way back. At minus 22 degrees Celsius and with limited visibility, loaded with 25 kg of food, he lost his bearings and finally froze to death - just a few hundred meters from the Habsburg House. The body was found on February 11; the food was still pinned to the back.

Ascents

• Hinternaßwald - Reisstalklamm - Kaisersteig - Habsburghaus, walking time approx. 3 hours
• Hinternaßwald - Reisstalklamm - Bärenloch - Grasbodenalm - Habsburghaus, walking time approx. 4 hours
• Hinternaßwald - Tear Talk lamb - wild track - Grasbodenalm - Habsburghaus Allow about 4 ½ hours
• Hinternaßwald - Tear Talk lamb - Naßkamm - Gamsecksteig - Habsburghaus, walking time about 4 hours
• Hinternaßwald - Peter Jokel-Steig - Habsburg House , walking time approx. 3 hours
• Preiner Gscheid - Karl-Ludwig-Haus - Habsburghaus, walking time approx. 3 hours
• Mountain station of the Rax cable car - crossing the Rax plateau - Habsburghaus, walking time approx. 2 ½ hours

Picture gallery

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  View in northwest direction with the Habsburg House in the foreground

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  View from the Jahnkreuz to the Habsburg House

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  Monument in memory of Daniel Innthaler next to the Habsburg house

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  Entrance area of ​​the Habsburg house

Transitions to other huts

Karl Ludwig House and on the far left the Habsburg House

• Karl Ludwig House
• Lake hut
• Gloggnitzer Hut
• Otto refuge
• Snow Alpine House

Web links

Commons : Habsburghaus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Habsburg house
• Hut stand sheet from 1932 (PDF; 6.3 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shelters. New shelter. In:  Oesterreichische Tourismus-Zeitung , year 1899, No. 18, September 16, 1899 (XIXth year), p. 213. (Online at ANNO ). ;
   From the Raxalpe. In:  Oesterreichische tourist newspaper , year 1900, no. 15, August 1, 1900 (XX year), p. 177, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ Inauguration of the shelter. In:  Badener Zeitung , September 23, 1899, p. 3, center left (online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ Habsburghaus on kreiter.info , accessed 9 August 2010