Hall Valley

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Mansions in the Halltal
Halltal with Haller Zunterkopf , to the right of it the Thaurer Zunterkopf with the Törl and the subsequent Wildanger
View from the Alpensöhnehütte into Halltal in west direction, the mountains from left to right: Rumer Spitze , Lattenspitze, Stempeljochspitze, Rosskopf , Großer Lafatscher and Kleiner Lafatscher
The former St. Magdalena monastery in Halltal. In the back Großer Lafatscher (left) and Kleiner Lafatscher (right)

The Halltal is a small side valley of the Inn Valley in the Karwendel in the Austrian state of Tyrol . It is located in the municipality of Absam, north of the former saltworks town of Hall in Tirol .

geography

The valley begins at the Hackl ( 800  m above sea level ) at the upper end of the Haller alluvial fan and first runs about 2 km in a north-westerly direction, then turns sharply to the west and another 5 km to the Stempeljoch ( 2215  m above sea level). ) to pull. The ridge of the Kartellerjöchl ( 1731  m above sea level ) finally divides the valley into the upper Hall valley with the Haller Salzberg and the Isstal north of it. The mountain stream coming from Haller Salzberg unites with the Issbach to the Halltalbach or Weißenbach , which flows into the Inn in Hall in Tirol . The front part of the valley was open to the public on a toll road that was up to 32 percent steep. The onward journey to the mansions and on the Issjöchl, however, was closed to public traffic. After several mudslides in the area of ​​the Bettelwur trip, the Halltal has only been accessible to authorized persons since 2012. The Halltal and its surroundings are in the Karwendel nature reserve, which is part of the Karwendel Alpine Park .

geology

The Halltal is part of the Northern Limestone Alps and its west-east branch follows a significant tectonic boundary, where rocks from the Inntal cover were pushed over younger rocks from the Karwendel shed zone to the south. The saline of the salt deposit also occurs at this fault zone. Most of the mountains north of the fault consist of the thick, light gray Wetterstein limestone , which forms a saddle structure. What is striking is the middle-steep south slope of its layers in the summit structure of the Großer Bettelwurf ( 2726  m above sea level ) and the Kleiner Bettelwurf ( 2650  m above sea level ) as well as in the area of ​​the so-called slabs west of the Bettelwurf hut . The Kartellerjöchl ( 1731  m above sea level ) is also built from Wetterstein limestone; Remains of the Raibler layers still lie above . The mountains south of the Halltal (Zunterköpfe) largely consist of the thin, medium-gray main dolomite . The salt deposit extends from the area of ​​today's salt mountain to the west to below the Wildanger-Stock and to the north to the rear Isstal. The main rock is the Haselgebirge , a tectonic mixed rock made of claystone , siltstone , rock salt and anhydrite . The Halltal also has young rock in the form of breccias , which z. B. build the distinctive plate tower west of the Bettelwurf hut. These sedimentary rocks indicate a formerly mighty backfill of the Hall valley.

The Haller Salzberg

The Halltal gained great importance through more than 700 years of salt mining and the associated saltworks in Hall in Tirol . Many traces of this salt mine , which was closed in 1967, can still be seen. B. the entrances of the main tunnels and the mansions. According to legend, the salt deposit was discovered by knight Nikolaus von Rohrbach when he concluded that there was an underground salt store based on the occurrence of salty spring water. There is documentary evidence of a salt works in this area in 1232. The actual mining should have started around 1272 at the latest, when Count Meinhard II . opened the first tunnel, today's Oberberg tunnel ( 1608  m above sea level ). As early as 1555, the route network of the tunnels was about 20 km in length. A total of 8 horizons (main tunnels) were excavated. Shortly before the closure in 1967, the entire route network was around 22 km (with all the abandoned routes around 80 km). As in all alpine salt deposits, the salt was extracted by controlled leaching. The brine obtained in this way was conveyed via a 10 km long pipeline to the brewhouse in Hall in Tirol . The mansions ( 1,485  m above sea level ), the center of the former mining industry, and the salt mine museum located therein have been badly damaged since an avalanche in 1999 and left to decay.

Tourism: huts and hiking trails

The Halltal is the starting point for numerous mountain tours. The Große and Kleine Bettelwurf , the Speckkarspitze , the Große and Kleine Lafatscher as well as the Haller- and Thaurer Zunterkopf are climbed particularly frequently . A popular excursion destination is the inn in the former St. Magdalena monastery , which was not open from autumn 2012 to February 2014. After long negotiations, the municipality of Absam finally bought the alpine inn from the federal forests and since then the economy has been open again. The restaurant in the manor houses is closed, although the so-called Knappenhäusl , with its spartan interior , is open irregularly on weekends. Otherwise, the honesty of the hikers is trusted and beer and cyclists are available for a fee of two euros. On the south side of the Bettelwurf lies at 2079  m above sea level. A. the Bettelwurf hut of the Innsbruck section of the Austrian Alpine Club . The Alpensöhnehütte ( 1345  m above sea level ) below the Halltaler Zunterkopf is only open on Sundays and public holidays from the beginning of May to the end of October .

natural reserve

The Hall valley is located in the Karwendel Alpine Park, which, with its conglomerate of nature and landscape protection areas, is one of the Natura 2000 areas. For the visitor, this means restrictions under nature conservation law with regard to driving or parking motor vehicles in the protected area.

literature

  • W. Günter: The Saline Hall i. Tyrol - 700 years of Tyrolean salt 1272–1967. In: Leoben Green Hefts. 132, 1972.
  • Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Environmental Protection Department, Karwendel Alpine Park Coordination Office (publisher): Salzberg und Saline Hall in Tirol. Innsbruck 2002 ( PDF; 1.8 MB ( memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Breakthrough promotes Halltal into a new era. ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper. Retrieved June 6, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tt.com
  2. ↑ R. Brandner: Absams ground - Geology of the municipal area of Absam. In: M. Laimgruber, H. Moser, Steindl, P. (Red.): Absam. Absam parish, 2008, pp. 9–35.
  3. ^ O. Schmidegg: The position of the Hall salt deposit in the construction of the Karwendel Mountains. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. 94, 1951, pp. 159-205 (online)
  4. ↑ C. Spötl: The Hall in Tirol salt deposit - an overview of the state of geological research in the 700-year-old mining operation. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. 69, 1989, pp. 137-167.
  5. ↑ C. Spötl, H. Spötl: An assembly-historical foray through the Halltal. In: Tiroler Heimatblätter. 73, 1998, pp. 2-18.
  6. ^ R. Palme: History of the salt mining and the Saline Hall. In: N. Grass, H. Hochenegg (Ed.): City book Hall in Tirol. Steiger, Innsbruck 1981, pp. 67-91.

Web links

Commons : Halltal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 19 ′ 39 ″  N , 11 ° 29 ′ 45 ″  E