Rifugio Altissimo Damiano Chiesa

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Rifugio Altissimo Damiano Chiesa SAT refuge  category  C
location	Monte Altissimo di Nago ; Trentino , Italy ; Valley location:  Brentonico
Mountain range	Garda mountains
Geographical location:	45 ° 48 '37.5 "  N , 10 ° 53' 25.3"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 48 '37.5 "  N , 10 ° 53' 25.3"  E
Altitude	2060  m slm
builder	SAT
owner	SAT section Mori
Built	1892
Construction type	Refuge
Usual opening times	daily from June 20th to September 20th
accommodation	35 beds, 0  camps
Winter room	8 beds
Web link	www.rifugioaltissimo.com

The Rifugio Altissimo Damiano Chiesa (also Rifugio Altissimo for short , German Altissimo hut ) is a refuge of the Mori section of the Trentino Alpine Club (SAT).

Location and surroundings

The Rifugio Altissimo is located in Trentino on the northern edge of the Monte Baldo mountain ridge, which borders Lake Garda on its east side, at 2060  m slm. The hut is only a few minutes' walk from the summit of Monte Altissimo di Nago . There is also a small chapel not far from it. The rifugio has been located in the newly created Parco naturale locale del Monte Baldo since 2013 .

The Sentiero della Pace (German, Friedensweg) leads past the hut .

history

The first refuge was built by SAT in 1891 in a construction time of only two and a half months and inaugurated in 1892, at that time under the name Rifugio di Monte Baldo . As in other cases in Trentino, which at that time still belonged to Austria-Hungary, hut construction on the Altissimo became the stage for pannationalist efforts , which was expressed in a kind of hut-building competition between the SAT and the DÖAV in order to underline the respective demands on the mountain which probably also had an impact on the short construction time.

As soon as it opened, the rifugio was one of the most visited refuges in Trentino and had to be expanded for the first time four years later. A second expansion took place before the First World War in 1906. With 30 beds at the time, the Rifugio di Monte Baldo was one of the largest mountain huts on the SAT.

During the First World War, the building was rented to the Austro-Hungarian military authorities in the autumn of 1914 in order to prevent confiscation. Two days after Italy entered the war on May 23, 1915, units of the Alpini battalion in Verona occupied the hut. In the following years it was named Rifugio Antonio Cantore . In the immediate vicinity, the Italians built numerous trenches and artillery positions, some of which are still well preserved today.

The rifugio survived the war relatively unscathed. On February 11, 1919, it was renamed in memory of Damiano Chiesa from Rovereto, who as an officer in the Italian army during the Austro-Hungarian South Tyrol offensive in 1916, was imprisoned in Austria not far from Rovereto and by a military tribunal for treason in the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trent had been executed.

In 1937 the Rovereto section took over the hut. During this time, at the end of the 1930s, further renovations were carried out, including the kitchen was significantly enlarged and the rifugio was also opened to the public in winter. In the 1950s and 1960s it got its current appearance. During this time, the old military road leading from the Rifugio Graziani to the Altissimo was expanded so that it could be used by vehicles.

In 1965, the Mori Section took over the Rifugio Altissimo Damiano Chiesa, which still owns the refuge today. In 2005 the interiors were completely renovated.

Accesses

• From Bocca del Creer, 1617 m ⊙ on path 633 (1 hour 30 minutes)
• From Prati di Nago (car park at the end of the road), 1530 m ⊙ on path 601 (1 hour 30 minutes)
• From San Giacomo, 1196 m ⊙ on path 622 (2 hours 45 minutes)
• From Festa, 852 m ⊙ on path 650, 622 (3 hours 30 minutes)
• From Nago , 210 m ⊙ on path 601 (4 hours 30 minutes)

Neighboring huts and crossings

• To Rifugio Andrea Graziani, 1620 m ⊙ on path 633 in one hour
• To Rifugio Malga Campei, 1570 m ⊙ on path 120, 147 in 3 hours
• To the Rifugio Telegrafo , 2147 m ⊙ on route 651 in 5 hours 30 minutes

Mountaineering

• Monte Altissimo di Nago, 2079 m ⊙ 5 minutes

literature

• Achille Gadler, Mario Corradini: Rifugi e bivacchi nel Trentino , Panorama, Trento, 2003, ISBN 978-88-87118-40-7 .
• Diego Leoni: La guerra verticale. Uomini, animali e macchine sul fronte di montagna 1915-1918 , Einaudi, Torino, 2015.
• Ovidio Menegùs: La prima guerra mondiale sul monte Altissimo di Nago , Moschini, Rovereto, 1980.
• Società degli alpinisti tridentini. Sezione di Mori (ed.): Rifugio Altissimo Damiano Chiesa: 1892-2012 - Chiesetta mons. Cesare Viesi: 1962-2012 - CAI-SAT Sezione di Mori: 1942-2012 , Mori, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Rifugio Altissimo Damiano Chiesa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rifugio Altissimo Damiano Chiesa , website of the Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini

References and comments

1. ↑ Built in 1962 by members of the SAT and dedicated to the Assumption of Mary .
2. ↑ Achille Gadler, Mario Corradini: Rifugi e bivacchi nel Trentino , p. 205
3. ↑ Parco Naturale Locale Monte Baldo in English , accessed on February 16, 2017.
4. ↑ This hut fight took on strange features, so that z. For example, refuge huts were built by both alpine associations at particularly ambitious locations, such as the Rifugio Quintino Sella in the Brenta group , built by SAT in 1905, and the Tucketthütte built a year later by the Berlin section of the DÖAV , which were less than 20 meters apart or lie. For the SAT / DÖAV hut dispute in Trentino before the First World War, see also: Diego Leoni: La guerra verticale. Uomini, animali e macchine sul fronte di montagna 1915-1918 p. 15 ff.
5. ↑ Among other things, a stable was built for mules who were used to transport the fine company and to supply the hut.
6. ^ Società degli alpinisti tridentini. Sezione di Mori (ed.): Rifugio Altissimo Damiano Chiesa: 1892-2012 - Chiesetta mons. Cesare Viesi: 1962-2012 - CAI-SAT Sezione di Mori: 1942-2012 .
7. ↑ The rapid capture was due to the withdrawal of the Austrian front line, as the Austrians had moved their main line of resistance further back to positions that were easier to defend, the so-called Tyrolean line of resistance .
8. ↑ Ovidio Menegùs: La prima guerra mondiale sul monte Altissimo di Nago p. 33 ff.
9. ^ Società degli alpinisti tridentini. Sezione di Mori (ed.): Rifugio Altissimo Damiano Chiesa: 1892-2012 - Chiesetta mons. Cesare Viesi: 1962-2012 - CAI-SAT Sezione di Mori: 1942-2012 .