Great dog death
| Great dog death | ||
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 Great dog death from the west, at the Dießbachstausee |
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| height |
2594 m above sea level A. 2593 m above sea level NHN |
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| location | Bavaria / Salzburg border | |
| Mountains | Steinernes Meer , Berchtesgaden Alps | |
| Dominance | 4.5 km → Watzmann -Südspitze | |
| Notch height | 474 m ↓ Dießbachscharte | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 30 '45 " N , 12 ° 53' 10" E | |
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| Age of the rock | Dachstein limestone from the Triassic | |
| First ascent | September 4, 1825 by Karl Thurwieser with guide J. Ebser | |
| Normal way | Weißbach bei Lofer - Dießbachstausee - Ingolstädter Haus - Big Dog Death | |
The great dog death , sometimes just dog death , with its height of 2594 or 2593 meters is one of the main peaks of the Stone Sea in the Berchtesgaden Alps and lies on the border between Germany and Austria (Bavaria / Land Salzburg).
The name of the mountain refers to the Watzmann saga , in which the dogs of the Watzmann fall from the dog's death.
location
The Große Hundstod is one of the higher mountains in the Berchtesgaden Alps and is located south of Hochkalter and Watzmann in the Berchtesgadener Land . It stands as a dominant rock head above the southern flank of the Steinernes Meer, as seen from the Pinzgau near Zell am See, and at the end of the Dießbach reservoir (Dießbach zur Saalach ).
The southern flank of the Großer Hundstod, through which the normal ascent runs. At the lower edge of the picture the Ingolstadt house .
Great dog death over the southern abyss of the Steinernes Meer from Lake Zell ( Zell am See-Süd )
Big dog death from West, right in the picture the small dog death
Great dog death from the southeast, the Funtensee in the foreground
On nice days, the summit offers a comprehensive panorama: in the northeast the Hohe Göll , in the east the Teufelshörner , in the southeast the Hochkönig and the rest of the Steinerne Meer, in the south the Zeller Becken and the Hohe Tauern , in the west the Loferer Steinberge and that Kaiser Mountains and in the north the Hochkalter and Watzmann.
Small dog death
About 0.7 km south-west of the summit is the complete opposite in Austria Small Hundstod ⊙ . It is 2263 m high and separated from the Großer Hundstod by the 2210 m high Hundstodscharte .
Hundstodgatterl
About 0.8 km east of the summit is the 2188 m above sea level. NN Hundstodgatterl ⊙ . This is the mountain pass between the Great Hundstod and 2329.6 m above sea level. NN high tailors . This pass enables the transition between the Steinernes Meer and the Wimbachtal .
Ascent
On the Großer Hundstod there is a marked path for sure-footed and vertigo-free mountain hikers, which leads from the Ingolstädter Haus through the steep southern flank over crags and scree to the summit in a good hour. The Ingolstädter Haus is reached as follows: Either from the Salzburger Saalachtal near Pürzlbach via the Dießbachstausee (in approx. 4 hours), from St. Bartholomä am Königssee via the Kärlingerhaus (in approx. 6 hours) or from Ramsau near Berchtesgaden via the Wimbachgrieshütte and the Hundstodgatterl (in about 6 hours).
Furthermore, the Alpine Club map shows an ascent from the southeast. Apart from that, there are other ascent options, all of which require great alpine experience, mostly even climbing and good local knowledge, for example pathless through the north flank (easy climbing, access from the gap between Hundstodkendlkopf and Großes Hundstod). On the west and east side of the Großer Hundstod there are climbing routes with extreme levels of difficulty.
The alpinist Joseph Kyselak reports on his ascent of the Hundskopfftod in 1825. He went from Königssee over the Sausteig into the Steinerne Meer and down the Weisbachwand to Saalfelden :
“Anyone who knows nothing about dizziness - this imagined evil, will call high dog-head death safely mountable; the easiest way to climb it is in an oblique direction from east to west. In an hour, calculated from the shepherd's hut, the middle highest peak of this alp was climbed; It is not until now that one sees with dissatisfaction that the defiant Watzmann raises his head far higher, which was hardly believed before. It is easy to convince oneself that it would be foolish, on this alp, where the three peaks barely offer as many fathoms and are connected to each other only by stretched rock ridges, dogs the nimble chamois , the four of which produced their practiced sentences on our arrival, chasing after.
I was still amazed at the foot of that winged Alpine guard when my guide happily shook my hand with a loud: "I've got it, I've got it!" And asked to be patient until he came back. I thought he was suddenly crazy and wanted to catch a vegetable; because he really hurried down the same path into the Watzmann valley with breakneck speed. I strove after him as much as possible; in vain, it had too many advantages! Indignant about the strange person, and me, who so haphazardly left a sweat-won height, I stood hesitating and looked into the deep gorge in which Romoser was already lost. Then I saw something indistinct, black and white, which betrayed life; my telescope made me count five sheep, which the poor shepherd had already climbed hand and foot, and slowly led them on a better path.
I am now happy to forgive the good man his loyalty for the cattle entrusted to him, but I was just as little determined to turn back to the dog's head as the decision to climb the Watzmann inspired me . "
Web links
- Big dog death on Peakbagger.com (English)
- Great dog death at Peakware (English)
- Panorama of the Great Dog Death on www.alpen-panoramen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Austrian Map online. BEV - Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, accessed on February 27, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c d e Alpine Club Card Bavarian Alps. Berchtesgaden - Watzmann National Park. BY21. Edition 2010. Scale 1: 25: 000.
- ↑ Ludwig Purtscheller : The Salzburg Limestone Alps. In: The development of the Eastern Alps , Volume I, DOeAV publishing house, Berlin 1893.
- ^ A b Bernhard Kühnhauser: Berchtesgaden Alps with Hochkönig. Alpine Club Guide. A guide to valleys, huts and mountains . 19th edition. Bergverlag Rother, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7633-1127-9 , p. 556–559 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Big Dog Death on Peakbagger.com (English). Retrieved February 9, 2012.
- ↑ Ludwig Bechstein: King Watzmann . In: Legends and stories from German districts . 3. Edition. Loewes Verlag ( projekt-gutenberg.org ).
- ^ Joseph Kyselak: Sketches of a foot trip through Austria . Ed .: Gabriele Goffriller. Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-902497-52-9 .