Hintergrathütte
| Hintergrathütte - Rifugio Coston | ||
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| location | Upper Gratsee, Suldental ; South Tyrol , Italy ; Valley location: Solda | |
| Mountain range | Ortler Alps | |
| Geographical location: | 46 ° 30 '5 " N , 10 ° 35' 0" E | |
| Altitude | 2661 m slm | |
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| owner | Mountain Guide Association Sulden | |
| Built | 1922 | |
| Usual opening times | Early July – early October | |
| accommodation | 70 beds, 0 camps | |
| Winter room | Yes | |
| Web link | Hintergrathütte | |
| Hut directory | ÖAV DAV | |
The Hintergrat ( Italian Rifugio alto del Coston or Rifugio del Coston ) is at 2,661 m slm located refuge in the Ortler Alps in South Tyrol ( Italy ). It is owned by the Mountain Guides Association of Solda .
Location and ways
The Hintergrathütte is located northeast of the Suldenferner , a large glacier below the Ortler , Monte Zebrù and Königspitze mountains . It can be reached from Sulden on a marked hiking trail in 2–2:30 hours. Transitions to other huts are possible to the K2 hut ( 2330 m ), the Tabarettahütte ( 2556 m ), the Payerhütte ( 3020 m ) and the Schaubachhütte ( 2581 m ) as well as the Hochjochbiwak ( 3535 m ).
The hut located in the Stelvio National Park is an important base for the ascent of the Ortler, especially for the route over the Hintergrat ( IV- , 40 ° in the ice), but also all other routes in the southeast of the mountain. In addition, the north-west and north-east facing routes to Monte Zebrù and the north face of the Königspitze can be reached from here.
history
When the Ortler was first climbed via the back ridge in 1805, a first small shelter was already built to climb this ascent, but it was higher than today's hut. Josef Pichler , the first to climb the Ortler, built this hut on behalf of the officer Johannes Gebhard sent by Archduke Johann . It was therefore known as the Gebhard'sche Hütte and was the first refuge in Tyrol. This building fell into disrepair because the Ortler was not climbed from this side for a long time.
As early as 1806, Gebhard, again supported by Archduke Johann, planned the construction of the large Schönleiten hut on the site of a shepherd's hut, which had already been used several times as an alpine base at 2248 m . However, these plans could not be implemented due to the temporary loss of Tyrol to Bavaria.
When the Ortler was climbed more frequently at the end of the 19th century, Carl Baeckmann (also Karl Bäckmann ), Russian State Councilor from Warsaw, decided to finance the construction of a new hut. On August 27, 1892, the Bäckmannhütte was opened near its current location, on the Lower Gratsee at 2611 m . This unmanaged but well-equipped shelter with 16 beds, eight each for guides and tourists, quickly became popular. As a result, it had to be expanded as early as 1895, and Bäckmann subsequently donated it to the Sulden Mountain Guide Association, which in return dedicated a monument to him in Sulden. The Bäckmannhütte was used as a base by Austrian troops during the mountain war and then destroyed by Italian grenades in 1915.
From 1920 to 1922, the Sulden mountain guides finally built today's Hintergrathütte, a little higher up on the Upper Gratsee . The hut is three-story and offers 70 beds. It is usually open from the beginning of July to the beginning of October. In 1958 and 1972, a sale or lease to the Alpine Club South Tyrol was up for discussion. The trade did not take place due to financial problems, so that the hut is still owned by the Sulden Mountain Guide Association and is managed by them.
Approaches
- Church in Solda , 2 hours
- Langenstein chairlift mountain station, 1 hour
- Sulden cable car middle station, 1.25 hours
cards
- Tabacco sheet 08 Ortler area / Cevedale
Web links
- Homepage of the Hintergrathütte
- Hintergrathütte - Rifugio del Coston on almenrausch.at
- Hintergrathütte in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine associations in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Holl: Alpine Club Guide Ortleralpen . Ed .: German Alpine Association , Austrian Alpine Association , Alpine Association South Tyrol . 9th edition. 2003, ISBN 3-7633-1313-3 , pp. 73 ( Google Books ).
- ^ A b Hanspaul Menara : On the way on the Ortler . In: Wolfgang Jochberger, Südtiroler Kulturinstitut (Ed.): Ortler. The highest peak in the whole of Tyrol . Athesia, Bozen 2004, ISBN 88-8266-230-6 , p. 147-148 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Jochberger: Alpine refuges on the Ortler and their history . In: Wolfgang Jochberger, Südtiroler Kulturinstitut (Ed.): Ortler. The highest peak in the whole of Tyrol . Athesia, Bozen 2004, ISBN 88-8266-230-6 , p. 184-185 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Pusch: Ortler - Königspitze - Zebrù . Rother, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7633-7027-7 , pp. 92 .
- ↑ Accommodation in the Hintergrathütte. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
- ^ Hanspaul Menara: South Tyrolean refuges . 2nd Edition. Athesia, Bozen 1983, ISBN 88-7014-017-2 , p. 119-120 .
- ↑ Hintergrathütte refuge Sulden Ortler South Tyrol. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .