Rifugio Tuckett - Quintino Sella

Rifugio Tuckett - Quintino Sella SAT refuge  category  D
The huts on the Tuckettjoch. On the left the SAT house, on the right the hut built by the Berlin Section
location	Tuckettjoch; Trentino , Italy ; Valley location:  Ragoli
Mountain range	Brenta
Geographical location:	46 ° 11 '31 "  N , 10 ° 52' 55.9"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 11 '31 "  N , 10 ° 52' 55.9"  E
Altitude	2272  m slm
builder	SAT , DÖAV section Berlin
owner	SAT , now a section of the CAI
Built	1904/1906
Construction type	Refuge
Usual opening times	from June 20th to September 20th
accommodation	110 beds, 0  camps
Winter room	7 beds
Web link	Leaseholder homepage of the hut

The Rifugio Tuckett - Quintino Sella , originally Tuckettpasshütte , also Tuckettjochhütte , is a 1905/1906 from the Berlin section of the D. u. Oe. Alpine Club on the Tuckett yoke built hut in the Brenta Mountains . Immediately next to the hut built by the Germans is the Rifugio Quintino Sella , built at the same time by the Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini . Both houses are located at an altitude of 2272 m slm. They are named after the English mountaineer Francis Fox Tuckett and the Italian natural scientist and founder of the CAI , Quintino Sella .

history

The Trentino with the then Rovereto and Trient districts belonged to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy until the end of the First World War . The Trient section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club had been planning to build a refuge in the Brenta for mountaineers and alpinists since 1896. A year earlier the DÖAV headquarters had to build a hut by the section of Trento on the Presanella had denied nor its financial support to an open dispute with the irredentisch embossed Società degli alpinisti Tridentini to go out of the way. An important supporter for the building was finally found in Theodor Christomannos , an influential politician and president of the DÖAV section Merano , for whom the building was a patriotic symbol that was intended to underline the national claims to the Italian-speaking Trentino.

The new hut should have a floor area of ​​200 m², the land provided for it on Tuckettjoch should be leased for 2  kr . But the Trento section was not financially able to start construction, so that in 1903 the financially stronger Berlin section took over the property and began planning the hut. At the same time the property was enlarged to 500 m². The rent to be paid to the KK Finanz-Bezirks-Direktion Trento now amounted to 5 Kr. As a first measure, the Campiglio development association laid a path to the building site that was accessible to mules in August 1903. In May 1904 the board of the Berlin section met with the building contractor Ballardini from Montagne near Tione to inspect the square. A short time later, however, a letter from Rovereto arrived in Berlin in which the Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini announced that it would also build a hut there and that it would begin in the summer of 1904. As it turned out, the two construction sites were only about 20 meters apart. A special competitive situation was to be expected that the Berliners did not enjoy.

The Società degli alpinisti Tridentini was also not happy that the Germans wanted to build in the same place, because, according to their own statements, they had also been planning a hut for a long time in the municipality of Ragoli - Montagne and therefore claimed older rights for themselves. It was also assumed that local projects would be given priority. For their planned Rifugio Q. Sella , the Società had already received the property and a building permit in 1902. In a very polite letter to the Berlin Section on June 24, 1904, the Italians made it clear, “that they should have been informed of the Berlin plans beforehand. One does not want to exaggerate the national sensitivity, but the feeling that the German clubs are settling more and more in the area cannot be dismissed, they do not always respect the nationality of the country ”. This accusation was underlined by the fact that “all signposts and boards on this Italian soil only have German inscriptions [...]. You Germans, who are so arrogantly jealous and proud of your nationality, shouldn't be surprised that we Italians are just as much ours. ”The letter closes with the hope that international understanding will be possible.

The rivalry dragged on and both sides insisted on building the houses. They wanted to convene an arbitration commission, go to court and have the property situation re-clarified, but the authorities stayed out of the dispute, which was increasingly fierce. So the rival sides started building their prestige objects. Both houses were completed around the same time and inaugurated in August 1906, with the Italians holding their celebration a week earlier. A peaceful coexistence of the two houses on the Tuckettjoch was possible from 1910, because the Berlin section financed an 800 meter long galvanized water pipe made of Mannesmann tubes from the glacier to the two huts. Before that, the water had to be transported by carriers over a distance of one kilometer. After the end of the First World War, the Tuckettpasshütte came into Italian ownership; the formal expropriation took place in 1920.

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  Lease agreement for the property on the Tuckett Pass

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  Opening of the hut built by the Berliners

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  Both houses shortly after completion in 1906

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  Sketch by council carpenter Friedrich Schwager, around 1903/1904

In the summer of 2016, the district mayor Reinhard Naumann of the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , twin city of Trento, as well as the president of the SAT, Claudio Bassetti, unveiled a memorial plaque at the Rifugio Tuckett - Q.Sella as a sign of international understanding and peace.

Ascents

The Rifugio Tuckett - Quintino Sella is about six and a half kilometers as the crow flies southeast above Madonna di Campiglio . There are climbs to the hut

• from the Rifugio Vallesinella di Madonna di Campiglio inn (1513 m) via hiking trail no.317 , past the Rifugio Casinei (1825 m), in a walking time of one and three quarters of an hour
• from Madonna di Campiglio with a cable car to Passo del Grostè (2442 m), then on hiking trail no.316 in one and a half hours to the Tuckettpasshütte.

Summits and transitions

Several, in some cases demanding, summit ascents are possible from the hut, but these require alpine skills and mastery of the safety techniques for climbing.

• Cima Brenta (3150 m): difficulty AD ( abbastanza difficile , quite difficult)
• Cima Mandròn (3040 m): F ( facile , easy)
• Castelletto Superiore di Vallesinella (2969 m): F
• Castelletto Inferiore di Vallesinella (2601 m): PD ( poco difficile , not very difficult)
• Cima Quintino Sella (2917 m): F.

High alpine crossings, sometimes as very exposed and difficult via ferratas , lead from the hut to

• Rifugio Graffer al Grostè (2261 m, walking time 4 hours)
• Rifugio Angelo Alimonta (2580 m, walking time depending on the variant 2 ½ to 6 ½ hours)
• Rifugio Tosa e "T. Pedrotti " (2486 m walking time, depending on the variant, 3 to 8 hours)
• Rifugio Alberto e Maria ai Brentei (2120 m, walking time 2 ½ hours)
• Rifugio Croz dell'Altissimo (1480 m), near Molveno (walking time 2 ½ hours)

Literature and maps

• Scuola nazionale di roccia Giorgio Graffer (ed.): Rifugio Tuckett (m.2268) Gruppo di Brenta: 28 luglio - 4 agosto 1974 . sn, Sl 1974, OCLC 797853168 (Italian).
• Editrice Rendena: 1906–2006: Francis Fox Tuckett Refuge, Quintino Sella. Cento anni di alpinismo, un secolo di amicizia: 25 anni gestione famiglia Daniele Angeli. Ed .: Società degli alpinisti tridentini. sn, Sl 2006, OCLC 799326857 (Italian).
• Rifugio Tuckett (Brenta Dolomites) . In: 100 hut walks in the Alps . Cicerone, Milnthorpe, Cumbria 2014, ISBN 978-1-78362-064-7 , Walk 71: Rifugio Tuckett (2272m: 7454ft) - (English, books.google.de - limited preview).

cards

• Alpine Club Map Sheet 51 Brenta Group (1: 25,000)
• Casa Editrice Tabacco Sheet 053 Dolomiti di Brenta
• Casa Editrice Tabacco Sheet 067 Altopiano della Paganella - L. di Tovel - C. Brenta - Trento

Web links

Commons : Rifugio Tuckett - Quintino Sella  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Come arrivare al Rifugio Tuckett tra le Dolomiti di Brenta. In: rifugio-tuckett.it. rifugio-tuckett.it, accessed March 25, 2017 . 
• SAT website with information about the hut
• Brenta Dolomites, Tuckett Hut on dolomitibrenta.it
• Tuckett Hut. auf-die-berge.de, 2016, accessed on March 25, 2017 . 
• Names of alpine refuges. Rifugio Tuckett and Quintinio Sella, Brenta Group. kreiter.info, February 22, 2017, accessed on March 25, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Michael Wedekind: La politicizzazione della montagna: borghesia, alpinismo e nazionalismo tra Otto e Novecento . In: Claudio Ambrosi, Michael Wedekind (eds.): L'invenzione di un cosmo borghese: valori sociali e simboli culturali dell'alpinismo nei secoli XIX e XX . Museo Storico in Trento, Trient 2000 pp. 48–49
2. ↑ The history of the affair and the correspondence connected with it is documented in the annual reports of the Berlin Section from 1904 to 1906. The letters were signed on the Berlin side by the Prussian Undersecretary and Chairman of the Berlin Section Reinhold Sydow and on the Italian side by Carlo Candelpergher, the President of the SAT
3. ^ Annual reports of the Berlin section of the DuOe. Alpine Club. 1917 to 1921
4. ↑ Newspaper article from July 18, 2016 in Italian , accessed on March 27, 2017
5. ↑ Alpine Club Maps of the Eastern Alps. Retrieved October 6, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Tobacco hiking maps 1.25.000. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .