Hochwilde

Hochwilde (Hohe Wilde)
Hochwilde from the northeast, seen from the Seelenkogel .
height	3480  m above sea level A.
location	South Tyrol , Italy and Tyrol , Austria
Mountains	Ötztal Alps
Dominance	6.2 km →  Schalfkogel
Notch height	329 m ↓  Gurgler Eisjoch
Coordinates	46 ° 45 '55 "  N , 11 ° 1' 20"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 45 '55 "  N , 11 ° 1' 20"  E
First ascent	1858 by J. Ganahl with farmers and shepherds in the course of the military survey
Normal way	Pfelders - Stettiner Hütte - Hochwilde (southern summit)
Reflection of Hochwilde, Annakogel and Mitterkamm in a varnish in front of the Hochwildehaus

The Hochwilde (also Hohe Wilde , Italian Cima Altissima ) is a mountain with two peaks , a southern peak at 3480  m above sea level. A. and a north summit with a height of 3458  m . It lies at the intersection of the Schnalskamm and Gurgler Kamm in the Ötztal Alps on the border between the Austrian state of Tyrol and the Italian province of South Tyrol . The South Tyrolean shares belong to the Texel Group Nature Park . The mountain is often visited as a striking vantage point. There are approaches both from the Stettiner Hütte to the south and from the north side, from the Hochwildehaus .

The Hochwilde was first climbed in a documented manner in 1852 (according to another source, 1858), in the course of the military survey by the kuk surveying officer Captain Johann Ganahl, the director of the Austrian land survey , and some helpers and porters, farmers and shepherds, from the Schnalstal . The first tourist ascent was made by Johann Jakob Weilenmann from St. Gallen on July 25, 1862 single-handedly. Hans Lutze von Wurmb first climbed the northern summit on August 24, 1871 , with the guides Peter Paul Gstrein and Rupert Scheiber.

You can access the summit from the Ötztal via the Hochwildehaus or from the south from the Stettiner Hütte in the rear Passeier Valley ( Moos in Passeier ). The approach from the north leads over the Gurgler Ferner and the north ridge in difficulty level UIAA I-II to the summit. The approach from the south is free of glaciers. The summit can be reached via a mostly well-trodden, safe path (with the exception of a short glacier field, which is harmless in midsummer). The Hochwilde is one of the highest peaks in the Eastern Alps, accessible by a path .

The first mentions of the mountain used the term Hochwilde - in accordance with the usage of the local population and analogous to the nearby Hochweiß . Some cards subsequently popularized the Hohe Wilde variant , which, however, has increasingly given way to the original form in recent years.

Panorama from the Hochwilde (the north is roughly in the middle of the picture)

literature

• Hanspaul Menara : The most beautiful 3000m peaks in South Tyrol. 70 worthwhile alpine tours. Athesia, Bozen 2014, ISBN 978-88-8266-911-9
• Dieter Seibert: Light 3000s. The 99 most beautiful tours with a path. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7654-5011-2

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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.
2. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying Austria: Hochwilde on the Austrian Map online (Austrian map 1: 50,000) .
3. ^ Walter Klier : Alpine Club Guide Ötztal Alps. Rother, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7633-1123-8 , p. 369
4. ^ Journal of the DOeAV. 1876, p. 184
5. ↑ Heinrich Hess in: Eduard Richter , Development of the Eastern Alps. Volume II. Berlin 1894, p. 360ff.
6. ↑ Hanspaul Menara: The most beautiful 3000m in South Tyrol . Athesia, Bozen 2014, ISBN 978-88-8266-911-9 , p. 134 .

Web links

Commons : Hochwilde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 360 ° panoramic aerial view of the Hohe Wilde