Kreuzspitze (Ötztal Alps)

Cross point
Summit of the Kreuzspitze
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 Coordinates: 46 ° 48 '59 "  N , 10 ° 52' 12"  E
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

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  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.

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  The entire Kreuzkamm from Hauslabkogel on the far left via Saykogel , Sennkogel, Kreuzkogel to Kreuzspitze (from the southeast)

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  Kreuzspitze from the Marzellkamm

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  Brizzisee

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 .

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The panorama from 1869 by C. Jordan and G. Engelhardt

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A 360 ° panoramic view from the summit (2015).

Web links

Commons : Kreuzspitze (Ötztaler Alpen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Klier : Alpine Club Guide Ötztal Alps . Bergverlag Rudolf Rother , Munich 1993. ISBN 3-7633-1116-5
2. ↑ BEV 1: 50,000
3. ^ Franz Senn: Die Kreuzspitze , magazine of the German and Austrian Alpine Association, Volume 2, 1871, II. Department, pp. 52-67 ( online )
4. ↑ Drama about the panorama. Retrieved August 18, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Panoramas. In: Homepage of the “Working Group for Comparative High Mountain Research e. V. " Retrieved on August 18, 2020 .