Mahdtalhaus

Mahdtalhaus ; DAV hut
	Mahdtalhaus
location	Innerschwende (Riezlern) / Mahdtal; Vorarlberg , Austria ; Valley location: Riezlern
Mountain range	Allgäu Alps
Geographical location:	47 ° 21 '59.9 " N , 10 ° 10' 33.3" E Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '59.9 " N , 10 ° 10' 33.3" E
Altitude	1050 m above sea level A.
owner	Section Stuttgart of the DAV
Built	1990
Construction type	hut
Development	Street
Usual opening times	December 20th to October 31st, closed for 4 weeks from the 1st Sunday after Easter (White Sunday)
accommodation	24 beds, 10 camps , 0 emergency camps
Winter room	No winter room
Web link	Site of the hut
Hut directory	ÖAV DAV

The Mahdtalhaus ( 1050 m above sea level ) is one of 26 Alpine Club huts of the DAV in the Allgäu Alps . It is located in Vorarlberg , Austria . The hut belongs to the Stuttgart section of the German Alpine Club (DAV) and was rebuilt after 1990. It is partly run as a self-catering hut and is the starting point for numerous circular tours and a hiking base as well as the starting and ending point for ski tours in winter.

Surname

The name of the Mhadtalhauses was from the northwest located Mahdtal ( Germany derived). Mahd refers to the mowing , cutting of grass or grain . The Mahdtalhof is located about 300 meters to the northwest.

history

On July 10, 1942, the Südwesthütte (now Mahdtalhaus) in Kleinwalsertal was bought by the Stuttgart section of the German Alpine Club .

On January 12, 1990, the “Mahdtalhaus” was completely destroyed by fire and then rebuilt.

Location and facilities

The Mahdtalhaus has four beds in two four-person dorms, 16 beds in two-bed rooms and ten beds in the mattress dormitory. There is no winter room. The connected snack station provides house guests with breakfast and / or dinner if required. The Mahdtalhaus is about 15 minutes on foot from Riezlern ( 1088 m above sea level ). Parking spaces are also right by the house and the next bus stop is only a 2-minute walk away. In the vicinity of the Mahdtalhütte are the: Fiderepasshütte ( 2067 m above sea level ), Schwarzwasserhütte ( 1620 m above sea level ), Mindelheimer Hütte ( 2013 m above sea level ), Rappenseehütte ( 2091 m above sea level ), Waltenberger-Haus ( 2084 m above sea level ), Kemptner Hut ( 1844 m above sea level ), Edmund-Probst-Haus ( 1927 m above sea level ).

Tours

From the Mahdtalhaus, the Hölloch shaft, secured with a rope railing, can be reached on foot in about 1½ hours. A popular ski tour leads from the Mahdtalhaus to the Toreck. In the 1990s, the departure through the Mahdtal was closed at the instigation of hunting . Mountaineering associations have reached the opening of a descent road through a forest zone to the Mahdtalhaus, which however often gaps and is difficult to drive on. This route was marked in an environmentally friendly way as part of the ski mountaineering project .

Popular hiking destinations in summer (examples):

Upper God's sack walls ( 2035 m above sea level ), walking time about 3 ¼ hours;
Hoher Ifen ( 2230 m above sea level ), walking time about 5 ½ hours;
Great Widderstein ( 2536 m above sea level );
Fellhorn ( 2039 m above sea level );
Kanzelwand ( 2059 m above sea level ).

particularities

Below the Mahdtalhaus there is a raised bog , south of the Schwarzwasserbach , right next to the covered wooden bridge. There are three natural monuments just a few minutes' walk away: the Schwarzwasserbach waterfall , the natural bridge on the Schwarzwasserbach and the Schwarzwasserbach whirlpools .

cards

Freytag & Berndt 363
ÖK (Austrian map) 113 Mittelberg (1: 50,000)
Bavarian topographic map 8626 - Hoher Ifen (1: 25,000)
TK L 8626, 8726
TKU 8
Alpine Club Card BY 2 Kleinwalsertal - Hoher Ifen, Widderstein (1: 25,000)

literature

T. Sessler: Mountain hikes, summit destinations and high-altitude trails in the Allgäu Alps (Allgäu) . Books on Demand GmbH 05/2005, ISBN 3-8334-2643-8
D. Seibert: AVF Allgäu Alps and Ammergau Alps . Bergverlag Rother , ISBN 978-3-7633-1126-2

Web links

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

The Mahdtalhaus in the Allgäu , website of the Stuttgart Alpine Club.
Welcome to the Mahdtalhaus! , Website Mahdtalhaus.

Individual evidence

↑ Address: Mahdtalhaus, Innerschwende 39, A-6991 Riezlern (1088 m above sea level). At the Mahdtalhaus, the height above the reference level is written as 1100 m, but this is not correct.
^ Alpenverein-Stuttgart.de: Chronology of the Stuttgart section
↑ The Mahdtalhaus in the Allgäu , the website of the Alpine Club of Stuttgart.
^ Cave Association Sonthofen e. V. (Ed.): The Hölloch in Mahdtal - 100 years of cave research in Kleinwalsertal . Self-published, Sonthofen 2006 (p. 1f).
^ Kristian Rath: Ski touring and ski mountaineering Allgäu . Panico Alpinverlag, Köngen 2009 (p. 38), ISBN 3-926807-73-3 .

[1] Address: Mahdtalhaus, Innerschwende 39, A-6991 Riezlern (1088 m above sea level). At the Mahdtalhaus, the height above the reference level is written as 1100 m, but this is not correct.

[2] Alpenverein-Stuttgart.de: Chronology of the Stuttgart section

[3] The Mahdtalhaus in the Allgäu , the website of the Alpine Club of Stuttgart.

[4] Cave Association Sonthofen e. V. (Ed.): The Hölloch in Mahdtal - 100 years of cave research in Kleinwalsertal . Self-published, Sonthofen 2006 (p. 1f).

[5] Kristian Rath: Ski touring and ski mountaineering Allgäu . Panico Alpinverlag, Köngen 2009 (p. 38), ISBN 3-926807-73-3 .