Judge's Hut

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Richterhütte
DAV hut  category  I.
Judge's Hut
location upper Krimmler Achental ; State of Salzburg , Austria ; Valley location:  Krimml
Mountain range Zillertal Alps
Geographical location: 47 ° 7 '26 "  N , 12 ° 8' 3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 7 '26 "  N , 12 ° 8' 3"  E
Altitude 2374  m above sea level A.
Richterhütte (State of Salzburg)
Judge's Hut
builder Warnsdorf section of the DuOeAV
owner Bergfreunde Rheydt section of the DAV
Built 1897, 1928, expanded 1970
Construction type hut
Development Driveway and material ropeway
Usual opening times Mid-June to mid-September
accommodation 16 beds, 35  camps , 6 emergency camps
Winter room 7  bearings
Web link Website to the hut
Hut directory ÖAV DAV

The Richterhütte is a refuge in the Salzburg part of the Zillertal Alps , about 600 meters lower and east of the Gamsscharte, the alpine glacier crossing to the Plauener Hütte . The current building is the third and was opened by Richard Richter in 1928. Today the hut belongs to the Bergfreunde Rheydt section of the German Alpine Club (DAV). The managed hut is open from mid-June to mid-September.

Surroundings

It is located on the northern slope of the Rainbachspitze ( 3129  m ), surrounded by the peaks of the Reichenspitz group at 2374  m at the end of the Rainbach valley, a left side valley in the upper Krimmler Achental . From the Krimmler Tauernhaus , where the Rainbach flows into the Ache, you pass the Richterhütte over the Windbachscharte, located about 300 meters higher in the southeast, into the upper Windbachtal and after crossing the Krimmler Tauern to the Neugersdorfer Hütte .

history

The Richterhütte in July 1903

In the course of the development of the Krimml High Alps, which had belonged to the Warnsdorf section of the German and Austrian Alpine Association (DuOeAV) since 1887 , a connection was also to be established from the Krimmler Achental to the Zillergrund and the Wildgerlostal . However, this project was postponed for financial reasons.

The textile manufacturer Anton Franz Richter (1848–1905) from Niedergrund near Warnsdorf , who was also the second chairman of the section, had a fixed road from the Krimmler Tauernhaus to the end of the Rainbachtal, where it was below the Reichenspitze ( 3303  m ) in about 2700 Meters high he planned his own hut. In the spring of 1896 an avalanche destroyed the shell that had been completed the year before. 300 meters down the valley, Richter immediately began building a new hut in a more suitable place, which was officially opened a year later on August 12, 1897 as the Richter hut with Bengali mountain lighting. The two huts of the Warnsdorf section brought wealthy Upper Lusatian and North Bohemian business people to Krimml.

The shoemaker Johann Unterwurzbacher and his wife Maria looked after both the Richter hut and the Warnsdorfer hut and 68 kilometers of section paths. The hut was privately owned by the Richter family, but the members of the DuÖAV were granted the same privileges as at the huts owned by the Alpine Club. Richard Richter continued the management of the hut in the spirit of his father Anton. During the First World War , a hurricane-like cyclone caused great damage, all the outbuildings were destroyed, but Richard Richter rebuilt his hut by 1928.

His son Walter came to Krimml with his family as a displaced person in 1946 and moved into Villa Maria , his grandfather's summer residence. However, he left the hut to Bergfreunde Rheydt from the Lower Rhine .

Just as it had started in 1895, the second building was built in 1897 based on the model of the Warnsdorfer Hütte . The stone ground floor and the wooden superstructure were, however, more generously dimensioned and carefully executed. The interior furnishings and the velvet- lined bowling alley that Richter had built were just as spacious . 30 beds in 12 chambers and additional flatbed storage facilities were available in the main building after the utility rooms were relocated to a separate building in 1903. This was later connected to the main house. A small power station down by the Ache supplied electrical energy.

The building from 1928 was not quite so well equipped. The Bergfreunde Rheydt section of the German Alpine Club (DAV) expanded the Richterhütte in 1970 as it is today.

Around August 2015, the water catchment - for drinking water and a power plant - went down as a mudflow when it rained, including the subsoil. The cause is believed to be the increased thawing of the permafrost this summer. The small power plant is being repaired, drinking water is drawn (as of September 11, 2015). The host family Burgi (at the hut every summer since 1977) and Armin Bachmaier terminated the lease at the end of 2015; her successors since 2016 are Martin Falkner and Julia Stauder.

In the summer of 2019, more extensive renovation and modernization measures were carried out with the support of the European Union and with funding from the Republic of Austria, but the original character and external appearance of the main building was retained. Since then, the hut has modern sanitary facilities on the ground floor, a professionally equipped kitchen and a new hydropower plant with an output of up to 27 kW / h. that provides sufficient electricity for the hut operation including the electrical heating of the sanitary rooms, the new drying / boot room and the two dining rooms. The material ropeway was also renewed, and the mountain station was also rebuilt and partly provided with new walls and a new roof. The separate winter room building was also renovated and a. with a new entrance area. Finally, new windows were installed and the roof renewed, with dormer windows being installed.

Furnishing

The hut has a total of 51 beds on the first and second floors, of which 12 are in two-bed rooms, 4 in a multi-bed room and 35 in mattress dormitories. On each floor there are washing facilities with running cold water in the hallway / stairwell, there are several toilets on the ground floor and on the first floor. Two dining rooms, a kitchen and the living area for tenants / staff as well as a heated drying room are available. The winter room is housed in a separate building and has cooking and heating facilities with firewood. The cable car, storage room and workshop are located in other outbuildings. Telephone and Internet are operated via a satellite system.

  • Richterhütte with Rainbachkees

  • Richterhütte from the south, in front the winter room building

  • Signpost at the Richterhütte

  • View from the hut into the Rainbachtal

  • Guest room

Transitions

  • To the Zittauer Hütte of the Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV), Warnsdorf / Krimml section, medium-difficult mountain path over the Rosskarscharte ( 2689  m ).
  • To the Plauener Hütte of the German Alpine Club, Plauen-Vogtland section, via Gamsscharte ( 2976  m ), difficult mountain path with via ferrata ( difficulty level B – C).
  • To the Plauener Hütte via Windbachscharte, Eissee and Zillerplattenscharte, medium-difficult mountain path.
  • To the Krimmler Tauernhaus through the Rainbachtal, moderately difficult mountain path or narrow road.
  • To the Birnlückenhütte via Windbachscharte, Krimmler Tauern and Birnlücke, medium-difficult mountain path.

summit

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Location of the hut: Rainbachkees with from left to right Zillerplattenspitze Rainbachspitze, Richterspitze, Zillerspitze, Reichenspitze and Gabler

swell

  • Chronicle section Warnsdorf DuÖAV
  • Festschrift 25 years of the Warnsdorf DuÖAV section

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Transcript of a speech by Rosa Berger: Sections-Mitteilungen January - April 2016, No. 1, 59th year. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ WE. In: richterhuette.com. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .