Köllkuppe

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Köllkuppe
Cima Marmotta
From the northwest: Veneziaspitzen in the center of the picture, to the right of it as a flat back recognizable the Köllkuppe

From the northwest: Veneziaspitzen in the center of the picture, to the right of it as a flat back recognizable the Köllkuppe

height 3330  m slm
location South Tyrol / Trentino border , Italy
Mountains Ortler Alps
Coordinates 46 ° 26 '59 "  N , 10 ° 40' 59"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 26 '59 "  N , 10 ° 40' 59"  E
Köllkuppe (Ortler Alps)
Köllkuppe
First ascent September 24, 1867 by Julius Payer and the mountain guide Johann Pinggera as part of a ridge crossing from the northeastern tip of Venezias
Normal way High tour from the upper Martell Valley, Marteller Hütte , over the southwest ridge

The Köllkuppe ( Italian Cima Marmotta ) is a mountain range of the Ortler Alps, 3330 according to Italian surveying, 3327  m high according to Austrian surveying in the Zufrittkamm , at this section also called Marteller Hauptkamm . The Köllkuppe lies exactly on the border between the Italian provinces of South Tyrol and Trentino in the Stelvio National Park . At its summit, three ridges that run from the southwest, northeast and southeast and are partially covered with firn meet. The easily accessible summit offers a good all-round view and is a popular destination for ski mountaineers in spring . The Köllkuppe was first climbed on September 24, 1867 by the cartographer and alpine explorer Julius Payer and the mountain guide Johann Pinggera from Sulden over the southwest ridge from the Hohenfernerjoch .

Location and surroundings

Glaciers extend to the Köllkuppe in the northwest and southeast . In the northwest lies the Hohenferner and in the southeast the Vedretta Careser . Neighboring mountains in the northeast ridge are the three Veneziaspitzen (main summit: 3386  m ), and in the southeast ridge the Cima Lagolungo ( 3165  m ). The curved ridge, which initially runs to the south-west and then west, slopes down to the Fürkelescharte crossing ( 3032  m ) and then climbs up to the 3757  m high Hinteren Zufallspitze . The next significant settlement is the winter sports resort Sulden , which is about 12 km as the crow flies in the northwest. The village of Gand , a fraction of the municipality of Martell in the Martell Valley , a side valley of the Vinschgau , is located a good 13 km to the northeast.

Base and ascent

The path of the first ascent in September 1867 led by Peio in southern Val di Sole from initially northwards through the Val della Mare up to Lago Lungo at 2,553  m altitude and continue over the glacier Vedretta Marmotta south below the at 3153  m lying height Hohenfernerjochs . From there you walked in a south-easterly direction on the ridge to the summit of the Köllkuppe, and then on to the northeastern I. Veneziaspitze. From the report by Louis Friedmann : On the first summit [meaning the Köllkuppe], which Payer did not regard as an independent peak, he did not stop, but stayed on the Veneziaspitze for 1½ hours and erected a stone man there . It took Payer and Pinggera almost 10 hours to climb.

Support points for the easiest ascent ( normal route ) are either the Zufallhütte at 2265  m altitude or the Marteller Hut ( 2610  m ), both in the uppermost Martell valley to the north. The path leads in a southerly direction as an alpine tour with appropriate equipment and glacier experience over the Hohenferner up to the Hohenfernerjoch, then either over the sharply shaped firn ridge (about 30 ° inclined) or directly northeast to the Köllkuppen summit. According to the literature, the walking time from the Marteller Hütte is 2 to 3 hours. The original route from Payer and Pinggera over the southwest ridge is rarely used today.

Literature and map

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Friedmann in Eduard Richter: The development of the Eastern Alps , Volume II, Berlin 1894, p. 151 ff.
  2. ↑ August Petermanns Geographische Mittheilungen , supplementary booklet 27, Gotha 1869
  3. ↑ Peter Holl: Alpine Club Guide Ortleralpen , Munich 2003, p. 317 ff., Margin no. 951 ff.