Hochfirst (Ötztal Alps)

Hochfirst
	The high ridge from the northwest
height	3403 m above sea level A.
location	Tyrol , Austria , and South Tyrol , Italy
Mountains	Ötztal Alps
Dominance	3.9 km → Hinterer Seelenkogel
Notch height	394 m ↓
Coordinates	46 ° 49 '36 " N , 11 ° 4' 51" E Coordinates: 46 ° 49 '36 " N , 11 ° 4' 51" E

The Hochfirst (also High First ) is a 3403 m above sea level. A. high mountain in the Gurgler ridge of the Ötztal Alps .

Location and surroundings

The Hochfirst is located in the ridge between the Gurgler Valley and the Seebertal, which branches off from the inner Passeier Valley . The most important summit points in the further course of the ridge are the Liebenerspitze ( 3399 m ), which is almost equally high, in the south-west and the Granatenkogel ( 3318 m ) in the north . The border between Italy and Austria or between the province of South Tyrol and the state of Tyrol runs over the summit of the Hochfirst . The closest villages are Pfelders , Rabenstein and Gurgl . On the South Tyrolean side, the mountain flanks in the Texel Group Nature Park are under protection.

Surname

The Hochfirst is mentioned for the first time in 1754 ("the highest yoke in Tyrol, called the Prince"). The meaning of the name is not entirely clear. Egon Kühebacher suspected that the summit was named as the highest point of the ridge compared to a ridge. Another interpretation refers to the fact that the Hochfirst once formed the border point of three principal dioceses (Pfelders belonged to the Diocese of Chur , Rabenstein to the Diocese of Trient and Gurgl to the Diocese of Brixen ).

Web links

Commons : Hochfirst (Ötztal Alps) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Clem Clements, Jonathan de Ferranti, Eberhard Jurgalski , Mark Trengove: The 3000 m SUMMITS of AUSTRIA - 242 peaks with at least 150 m of prominence , October 2011, p. 10. Location of the reference chart on the Austrian Map online (Austrian map 1 : 50,000) . Height of the reference chart according to: Walter Klier: Alpenvereinsführer Ötztaler Alpen , Munich 2006, RZ 3112.
↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying Austria: Hochfirst on the Austrian Map online (Austrian map 1: 50,000) .
^ Egon Kühebacher: The place names of South Tyrol and their history. The historically grown names of the mountain ranges, summit groups and individual peaks of South Tyrol. Athesia, Bozen 2000, ISBN 88-8266-018-4 , p. 108.
↑ Johannes Ortner: Blunt and pointed . In: Experience the mountains - The magazine of the Alpine Association of South Tyrol . No. 4 , 2018, p. 62-63 .

[1] Clem Clements, Jonathan de Ferranti, Eberhard Jurgalski , Mark Trengove: The 3000 m SUMMITS of AUSTRIA - 242 peaks with at least 150 m of prominence , October 2011, p. 10. Location of the reference chart on the Austrian Map online (Austrian map 1 : 50,000) . Height of the reference chart according to: Walter Klier: Alpenvereinsführer Ötztaler Alpen , Munich 2006, RZ 3112.

[amap-2] Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying Austria: Hochfirst on the Austrian Map online (Austrian map 1: 50,000) .

[3] Egon Kühebacher: The place names of South Tyrol and their history. The historically grown names of the mountain ranges, summit groups and individual peaks of South Tyrol. Athesia, Bozen 2000, ISBN 88-8266-018-4 , p. 108.

[4] Johannes Ortner: Blunt and pointed . In: Experience the mountains - The magazine of the Alpine Association of South Tyrol . No. 4 , 2018, p. 62-63 .