Monte Rosa Hut
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| location | on the Monte Rosa massif above the Gorner glacier ; Zermatt municipality , Visp district , canton Valais ; Valley location: Zermatt | |
| Mountain range | Valais Alps | |
| Geographical location: | 629 148 / 89551 | |
| Altitude | 2883 m above sea level M. | |
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| owner | SAC Monte Rosa | |
| Built | 1894-1895; New construction: 2008–2009 | |
| Construction type | hut | |
| Usual opening times | Mid-March to mid-September | |
| accommodation | 120 beds, 0 camps | |
| Winter room | 12 bearings | |
| gastronomy | available | |
| Web link | Site of the hut | |
| Hut directory | SAC | |
The Monte Rosa Hut is a mountain hut belonging to the Swiss Alpine Club of the Monte Rosa section in the Monte Rosa massif of the Valais Alps .
location
The hut stands at 2883 m above sea level. M. at the north-western foot of the Monte Rosa massif on a sloping rock plateau called "Plattje". Below the hut is the Gorner Glacier , named after the Gornergrat , the terminus of the Gornergratbahn . The four thousand meter peaks Castor , Pollux , Liskamm and the Monte Rosa massif with the Dufourspitze form the perimeter of the hut . To the west, the hut offers a view of the Matterhorn .
Access
The hut can be reached in three to four hours from the Rotenboden station of the Gornergratbahn . The demanding route over the Gorner Glacier is signposted “ white-blue-white ” as an Alpine route . Crampons and rope are essential for traversing glaciers. The mountain tour is only recommended for inexperienced and unfamiliar mountaineers when accompanied by a mountain guide. Due to the decline of the Gorner Glacier in recent years, the hut trail has become longer and more difficult. The descent from Rotenboden to the glacier and the ascent to the hut leads over steep moraines and rocks. As a day tour, a visit to the Monte Rosa Hut is only suitable for mountaineers with good physical fitness. In winter it is also possible to ski from the Stockhorn , which can be reached via a ski lift, to the hut in around an hour and a half.
Old Monte Rosa Hut (1894-2010)
In 1894 and 1895, the "Bétemps" hut - named after a family who financially made the construction possible - was built with 25 seats as the property of the SAC Central Committee. In 1918 the hut was enlarged, which resulted in an additional 20 accommodation places. In 1929 the Central Committee donated the hut to the Monte Rosa section, which began a renovation. Since then it has been called the Monte Rosa Hut. In 1939/1940 a new hut with 86 places was built, in 1972 the capacity almost doubled with 146 places, and from 1984 the hut even had 160 places. The new hut, built between 2008 and 2009, now has 120 places. The Monte Rosa Hut was one of the largest mountain huts in Switzerland.
After the new Monta-Rosa hut began to be used, the old hut was dismantled for over 100,000 francs and blown up on July 14, 2011 by a WK unit of Disaster Relief Battalion 1 of Territorial Region 1 with over 100 kilograms of military plastic explosives .
New Monte Rosa Hut (from 2008)
For the 150th anniversary of ETH Zurich , the “Mountain Hut of the Future” was built around 100 meters above the old hut. After a planning period of around six years - four semesters of which was a design as a student project - and a construction phase of two summers, the new Monte Rosa hut "Bergkristall" was opened on September 25, 2009. Five storeys were built on an octagonal reinforced concrete base with a diameter of 16 m, which can accommodate 120 overnight guests. The new building, which was digitally planned and CNC- cut in wood construction with an aluminum shell , realizes the idea of sustainable energy use: Photovoltaic system on the south facade with 16 kWp, ventilation system with heat recovery , water circuit for toilet system and washing machine as well as intelligent and networked building technology enable the hut to generate part of the required energy from renewable sources without electricity or water. A combined heat and power plant operated with rapeseed oil and diesel is available for periods of bad weather . The construction costs amounted to 6.4 million francs, the SAC contributed 2.15 million, the rest was covered by sponsors and donors. In March 2010, the Neue Monte-Rosa-Hütte started normal guest operations, but will continue to serve as a research object for ETH Zurich in the fields of energy and building technology.
New Monte Rosa hut
New Monte Rosa hut
Interior of the new Monte Rosa hut
Climbing opportunities
- Monte Rosa massif, Dufourspitze, Nordend , Signalkuppe , Jägerhorn , Liskamm, Castor and Pollux , Cima di Jazzi .
- Alpine hike to Gnifetti Hut via Lisjoch or Britanniahütte via Eagle Pass .
literature
- ETH Zurich: New Monte Rosa Hut SAC: A self-sufficient structure in the high alpine region . gta Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-85676-273-5 .
cards
- National map of Switzerland sheet 1348 Zermatt (1: 25,000)
- National map of Switzerland sheet 2515 Zermatt-Gornergrat (1: 25,000)
- National map of Switzerland sheet 5028T Monte Rosa - Matterhorn (1: 50,000)
- National map of Switzerland sheet 284T Mischabel (1: 50,000)
Web links
- Monte Rosa Hut on the website of the SAC Monte Rosa section
- Website for the new Monte Rosa Hut from ETH and SAC
- Ulla Hanselmann: Weird instead of rustic. Solar fields, panoramic windows and our own weather station: the mountain hut of tomorrow opens in Valais , in: Die Zeit online from September 25, 2009
- Daniel Foppa: The prestige hut is a victim of its own success. In: Tages-Anzeiger of July 9, 2013
- Monte Rosa Hut on the ETHorama platform
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Foppa: Dangerous rush to Monte Rosa hut. In: Tages-Anzeiger . September 6, 2010, accessed September 6, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Rüdiger Sinn: Alpine Modernism. New Monte Rosa hut in Zermatt (CH) , in: deutsche bauzeitung. Journal for Architects and Civil Engineers, 11/2009, pp. 54–57, ISSN 0721-1902
- ↑ NZZ: Blast at 2,800 meters above sea level , accessed on November 4, 2015
- ↑ Marcel Gyr (July 14, 2011): Monte Rosa hut blown up after 116 years . In: NZZ Online . Retrieved July 15, 2011.
- ^ Anne Kockelkorn: Rock crystal via helicopter , in: Bauwelt 39-40.09 / 100. Volume, Berlin October 23, 2009, pp. 44–49
- ↑ NZZ: "Mountain hut of the future"
- ↑ map.geo.admin.ch. Retrieved October 5, 2019 .