Pirchkogel
| Pirchkogel | ||
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 The Pirchkogel from the southeast |
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| height | 2828 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Tyrol , Austria | |
| Mountains | Stubai Alps | |
| Dominance | 4.7 km → Zwölferkogel | |
| Notch height | 303 m ↓ notch to the center pointer head | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 13 '55 " N , 10 ° 59' 56" E | |
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| Normal way | marked trail of Kühtai from | |
The Pirchkogel (or Pirchkogl ) is a 2828 m high mountain in the Stubai Alps in Tyrol . It is considered a good vantage point.
The Pirchkogel rises north of Kühtai ( 2,017 m ) and the right on the road over the Kühtai located Dortmunder hut ( 1948 m ). With its ridge foothills , the eastern Irz walls ( 2757 m ) and the southern Grießkogel ( Vorderer 2666 m and Hinterer Grießkogel 2673 m ), it frames a plateau known as the Schwarzmoos.
There are four small mountain lakes here, including Gossenköllesee at 2413 m , up to which the Kühtai ski area extends up from the valley. Until 2014, the smallest Austrian UNESCO biosphere reserve in the area of lakes was designated with 85 ha , with long-term research on aquatic ecology by the University of Innsbruck. Due to the small size and the zoning in core, buffer and development zones, which was not carried out by the administration, this area, which was one of the first biosphere reserves in Austria in 1977, no longer fulfilled the new criteria; the Austrian Commission for UNESCO revoked the area from this status. Water monitoring and research, which had already started in 1933, will be continued with the limnological research station located at the 9 m deep Gossenköllesee. Research results relate to the changing growth conditions in the high alpine landscape as a result of climatic fluctuations over the past 800 years. The sediment samples also reflect the higher nutrient input due to the intensified pasture management with sheep and cattle near the lake ( Schwaighof ) in the Middle Ages from 1670 , the changed minerals in the lake floor indicate the stocking of brown trout ( Salmo trutta morpho fario ) since this time down.
Several paths lead to the summit of the Pirchkogel: The path over the north-west ridge, also known as the Schafjoch , can be reached from Silz via the Silzer Alm or from Ochsengarten . An ascent leads from Stams over the snow valley that descends northeast from the summit . The most popular and shortest route is the south-east-facing climb from Kühtai. All of these routes are also popular ski tours in winter .
There is only a signal pole on the Pirchkogel, but no summit cross. It can be found a little further down the Marlstein, where you can see it from the west and north.
literature
- Walter Klier: Alpine Club Guide Stubai Alps . Bergverlag Rother , Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7633-1212-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gossenköllesee University of Innsbruck, accessed on July 31, 2014.
- ↑ Gossenköllesee UNESCO - MAB Biosphere Reserves Directory, accessed on July 31, 2014.
- ↑ Tyrolean-areas-lose-status-as-UNESCO-Biosphere Park of Standard.at, May 26, 2014, accessed on July 31, 2014.
- Jump up ↑ Christian Kamenik, Karin A. Koinig, Roland Schmidt, Peter G. Appleby, John A. Dearing, Andrea Lami, Roy Thompson, Roland Psenner: Eight hundred years of environmental changes in a high Alpine lake (Gossenköllesee, Tyrol) inferred from sediment records . In: Journal of Limnology 59, Suppl. 1 (2000), pp. 43-52, doi : 10.4081 / jlimnol.2000.s1.43