Mattress storage
The simplest and cheapest type of sleeping place in mountain huts is called mattress dormitory. In Switzerland, the terms mass strike , shock or tourist camp are common.
They are usually located in the top floor of the hut and can accommodate between 10 and 100 beds. Large mattress dorms are divided into some rooms with a maximum of 20 to 30 beds in order to ensure a decent night's sleep. Often there are also smaller rooms for families . Mattress dormitories can also be found in winter rooms .
The mattresses are usually not on the floor, but on a large wooden frame, and are equipped with one pillow (Austrian cushion) and one or two woolen blankets (alpine club blankets) for each bed. There are small storage areas on the head or foot side. The use of sleeping bags is mandatory in Alpine Club huts .
While very simple sleeping arrangements, for example on hay or straw, dominated in the early shelters of the 19th century, relatively comfortable separate mattress dorms were increasingly set up from around 1880. In the early 20th century, the needs of mountaineers increased increasingly, the forced (also mixed-gender) intimacy and lack of hygiene and recreational opportunities, especially by more moderate mountain hikers, were often perceived as no longer up-to-date, so that many larger shelters today also have smaller rooms in addition to mattress beds only offer a few beds. In contrast, mattress camps are a symbol of simplicity and originality in the alpine environment, especially among more extreme alpinists.
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- ↑ Ulrich Ammon, Rhea Kyvelos: variant dictionary of the German: the default language in Austria, Switzerland and Germany as well as in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, eastern Belgium and South Tyrol . Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-016574-6 , p. 492, 796 ( Google Books [accessed November 20, 2011]).
- ↑ a b Hüttenordnung DAV , accessed on September 27, 2012
- ↑ Anneliese Gidl: Alpine Association: the townspeople discover the Alps . Böhlau, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77668-0 , p. 142–144 ( Google Books [accessed November 20, 2011]).
- ↑ Dagmar Günther: Alpine Quergang: cultural history of bourgeois alpinism (1870-1930) . In: Campus Historical Studies . Campus Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-593-36100-0 , pp. 93, 324 ff . ( Google Books [accessed November 20, 2011]).