Heilbronner Hut

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Heilbronner Hütte
DAV refuge  category  I
New Heilbronner hut with winter house

New Heilbronner hut with winter house

Mountain range Verwall group
Geographical location: 47 ° 0 '26 "  N , 10 ° 8' 20"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '26 "  N , 10 ° 8' 20"  E
Altitude 2320  m above sea level A.
Heilbronner Hut (Vorarlberg)
Heilbronner Hut
owner Heilbronn section of the DAV
Built 1926
Construction type Refuge
Usual opening times Mid-June to the end of September (depending on the weather)
accommodation 26 beds, 82  camps
Winter room 28  bearings
Web link Heilbronner Hut
Hut directory ÖAV DAV

The Heilbronner Hütte has been a refuge of the Heilbronn section of the German Alpine Club that has existed since 1926 . It is located in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg in the Verwall group . At 2320  m above sea level A. it is one of the highest in the Verwall group. A former Heilbronner Hütte , which together with South Tyrol fell to Italy in 1919 , existed on Tascheljöchl from 1910.

There is no geographical connection between the Heilbronner Hütten and the Heilbronner Weg in the Allgäu Alps .

Old Heilbronner Hut

Ruins of the first Heilbronn hut on the Taschljöchl

The first Heilbronner Hütte was built at the suggestion of the then chairman of the Heilbronn section of the German and Austrian Alpine Association (DÖAV), Peter Bruckmann , from 1909 on the Taschljöchl in the southern Ötztal Alps between the Schnals and Schlandraun valleys in what is now South Tyrol , at a height of 2772  m erected. The hut with 20 places at the time was inaugurated on July 19, 1910 by Bruckmann. In the following three years, the network of trails around the hut was expanded and repaired, including the 800-year-old mule track from Schlanders to Taschljöchl. The hut served as a base for alpine tours in the Saldur Mountains .

In 1919 all of the Alpine Club huts in what is now South Tyrol were expropriated from Italy and handed over to the CAI . It was still managed under the name Taschljöchlhütte , later exclusively Rifugio Verona or Rifugio Colle Tasca . The building fell victim to a fire in 1932 and has only been rebuilt as an emergency shelter.

New Heilbronner Hut

Heilbronner Hütte seen in the direction of Verbellabachtal (1981)

After the old hut was no longer available, considerations began around 1925 to build a new Heilbronn hut at a new location. Peter Bruckmann therefore turned to the main committee of the DÖAV in Munich in February 1926, which recommended the Verbellner Winterjöchl on Scheidsee as the location. After an on-site inspection in July 1926, construction work began in autumn according to plans by the architect Richard Scheffler , and the building permit was granted retrospectively on December 7, 1926. After a construction period of over a year, the still unfinished hut began to be managed at Christmas 1927 . The official inauguration took place on July 1, 1928 by board member Peter Bruckmann. The construction costs amounted to 81,400  Reichsmarks (RM) . For the loss of the first Heilbronn hut, the Heilbronn section of the DÖAV received around 4,300 RM in compensation in the 1927/28 financial year. The hut was very popular (1000 overnight stays and more annually), so that an expansion was first thought of as early as 1931.

After the border closure, which was decreed from the summer of 1933, only emergency operations could be maintained at the hut in the winter of 1933/34. The hut came to a complete standstill by 1935, and it was broken into twice in the summer of that year. In the meantime, the Heilbronn Section had leased the newly built Sonneckhütte near Ofterschwang in the Allgäu as a replacement for the no longer accessible hut in 1935 . With the “Anschluss” of Austria in March 1938, the Heilbronner Hütte in Verwall could be reached again.

In the first years of the Second World War , the Heilbronner Hütte was initially managed, but the building was confiscated in February 1943 by the Army Administration, Gebirgsnachrichtenabteilung 18 Bludenz. After the end of the war, the hut was broken into several times and the inventory plundered.

The Vorarlberg branch of the Austrian Alpine Association (ÖAV) temporarily looked after the hut from 1946 and appointed a new hut owner in 1950. In 1958 the hut was returned to the Heilbronn Section. The capacity at that time was 36 beds and 50 beds in the mattress dormitory . The hut has been expanded several times up to the present, for example in 1961, 1976, 2003 and 2010/11. The hut now has 114 beds and is usually open from mid-June to early October.

The hut is frequented by cyclists and is very busy in summer. It can be reached via a driveway.

Outside the summer season, the Peter-Käß-Hütte, which was built in 1996 (named after the chairman of the Heilbronn section from 1978 to 1998), is an unmanaged self-catering house with 28 places.

Transitions to other huts

Transalp

The Heilbronner Hütte is an important base for activities in the sense of a transalp tour by mountain bike . The hut has been approached on the Joe route since 1995 and the Albrecht route since 2004 . These alpine tours start in Bavaria and end on Lake Garda .

Literature / maps

  • Main committee of the German and Austrian Alpine Club (ed.): The refuges of the German and Austrian Alpine Club . Innsbruck 1932, p. 58 and p. 133 (Neue Heilbronner Hütte) as well as p. 65 and p. 150 (Alte Heilbronner Hütte).
  • 100 years of Heilbronn Section in the German Alpine Association . Heilbronn 1991
  • Peter Pindur, Roland Luzian, Andreas Weiskopf: Alpine Club Leader Verwall Group . 10th edition. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7633-1251-X
  • Alpine Club Card AV 28/2, 1: 25,000, Verwall Group - center
  • Alpine Club Card, AV 28, 1: 50,000, Verwall Group

Web links

Commons : Heilbronner Hütte  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Major investment in the Neue Heilbronner Hütte. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: GaPa-Zitig , Official Communications Gaschurn-Partenen. Gaschurn community, June 2011, p. 12 , archived from the original on January 1, 2014 ; accessed on April 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The self-catering house is called the Peter-Käß-Hütte. DAV Heilbronn pays tribute to the ex-chairman's life's work. Heilbronn Voice, July 29, 2004, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The self-catering hut. German Alpine Club Section Heilbronn, accessed on April 5, 2020 .