Kreuzspitze (Ötztal Alps)
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Summit of the Kreuzspitze |
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height | 3455 m above sea level A. | |
location | Tyrol , Austria | |
Mountains | Ötztal Alps | |
Dominance | 4.9 km → Fineilspitze | |
Notch height | 228 m ↓ Scharte to the Sennkogel | |
Coordinates | 46 ° 48 '59 " N , 10 ° 52' 12" E | |
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First ascent | 1865 by Franz Senn with Cyprian Granbichler | |
Normal way | Mountain tour without touching the glacier |
The Kreuzspitze is at a height of 3455 m above sea level. A. the highest mountain of the Kreuzkamm, named after her, in the Ötztal Alps and one of the highest peaks in the Eastern Alps that can still be hiked without having to climb the glacier. The summit can be reached from Vent via the Martin-Busch-Hütte ( 2501 m ). Due to the location between the main and the Weißkamm , the summit offers an excellent view of the wide glaciers of the Ötztal Alps.
Approach
The normal route begins at the Martin-Busch-Hütte ( 2501 m ), with an altitude of 946 meters to be overcome to the summit. The ascent time is about 3 hours. About halfway you pass the ruins of the Brizzihütte not far from Lake Samoar. The first ascent also took place from this side at the beginning of October 1865 by Franz Senn and Cyprian Granbichler .
photos
Kreuzspitze (far left) seen from Saykogel, approx. 2.5 km southwest. At the bottom right the Martin-Busch-Hütte , roughly in the middle of the picture the Brizzi (also Samoar) lake.
The entire Kreuzkamm from Hauslabkogel on the far left via Saykogel , Sennkogel, Kreuzkogel to Kreuzspitze (from the southeast)
Historical panoramas from the Kreuzspitze
The relatively easy accessibility of the Kreuzspitze and its central location in the glacier world of the Ötztal Alps meant that the first summit panoramas were created shortly after the first ascent. The client was Franz Senn, who had a shepherd's hut set up for the landscape painter Carl Brizzi (1822–1876). However, Brizzi's panorama, created in 1868, shows strong artistic exaggerations, so that Senn had another panorama created by Carl Jordan (1826–1907) and Georg Engelhardt (1823–1883) in 1869 . This panorama offers an excellent documentation of the glacier highs, which were only a few years ago, during the Little Ice Age .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Klier : Alpine Club Guide Ötztal Alps . Bergverlag Rudolf Rother , Munich 1993. ISBN 3-7633-1116-5
- ↑ BEV 1: 50,000
- ^ Franz Senn: Die Kreuzspitze , magazine of the German and Austrian Alpine Association, Volume 2, 1871, II. Department, pp. 52-67 ( online )
- ↑ Drama about the panorama. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Panoramas. In: Homepage of the “Working Group for Comparative High Mountain Research e. V. " Retrieved on August 18, 2020 .