Rofanspitze

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Rofanspitze
East side of the Rofanspitze with the Zireiner See

East side of the Rofanspitze with the Zireiner See

height 2259  m above sea level A.
location Tyrol , Austria
Mountains Brandenberg Alps
Dominance 1.2 km →  Seekarlspitze
Notch height 131 m ↓  Beggar Saddle
Coordinates 47 ° 27 '27 "  N , 11 ° 47' 37"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '27 "  N , 11 ° 47' 37"  E
Rofanspitze (Tyrol)
Rofanspitze
The Rofanspitze from the northwest

The Rofanspitze from the northwest

Summit construction of the Rofanspitze from the southwest

Summit construction of the Rofanspitze from the southwest

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The Rofanspitze is 2259  m above sea level. A. the third highest peak in the Rofan Mountains , a subgroup of the Brandenberg Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol . It consists of the main summit and a 2221  m high west summit , which are about 400 meters apart. The west side of the massive acting Rofanspitze is Schrofen interspersed with grassy, partially rocky parts. Approximately 100 meters below the 40 ° inclined summit area, almost vertical rock faces made of the main dolomite begin in the north-west, north and east , which have popular routes for alpine climbers , especially on the east side and the Rofan tower in front of the north-east . Due to its easy accessibility via numerous hiking trails, the Rofanspitze is also a scenic mountain that is often climbed from the Erfurter Hütte for mountain hikers .

Surroundings

The Rofanspitze is located in the center of the Rofan Mountains at the point where the main ridge bends south from its west-east extension at a right angle. Right in front of it is the Rofanturm in the northeast, a steep rock needle about 100 meters high. Adjacent peaks in the course of the main ridge running to the west, separated by the Bettlersteigsattel ( 2128  m ) crossing, are the 2246 meter high Roßkopf and the Seekarlspitze with 2261 meters. In the southern ridge of the Rofan Mountains lie the 2228 meter high Sagzahn and the Vordere Sonnwendjoch , which at 2224 meters forms the southern end point of the Rofan ridge . To the north, the terrain falls down to the Hirschlacke , a pond at an altitude of 1,860 meters. To the northeast of the Rofanspitze is the Zireiner See at 1799 meters and the Achensee extends to the southwest . The nearest town is Maurach am Achensee in the southwest, a good 4 kilometers as the crow flies , and Steinberg am Rofan is just 6 km to the north .

geology

See article Hochiss

Tourist development

Since the area was populated early due to its fertile soil and the mountains are easy to climb from the south, there are no records of first ascents. Today a dense network of hiking trails leads through the Rofan Mountains and the Rofanspitze is easy to reach from the Erfurter Hütte , located 1831 meters north of Maurach. The normal route (easiest ascent) leads from the hut in a north-easterly direction over the Grubastieg up to the Grubascharte at 2102 meters and then from the south-west over steep meadows to the summit cross of the Rofanspitze in a walking time of a good two hours.

The Rofanspitze has been climbing since 1911, when Franz Nieberl climbed single- handedly through what was later to be known as the Nieberl Gorge, with today's UIAA IV difficulty level . In 1912 Eichhorn, Bonacossa and Botsford followed on a route to the west with UIAA grade V. The difficulty UIAA VI was first climbed in 1939 in Rofan by K. Kögl and A. Gruber on the north face of the Rofanturm. The first route with the difficulty UIAA VII- ( freely climbed) opened in 1947 by Matthias Rebitsch and Sepp Spiegl in the east face of the Rofanspitzen . Since the 1990s, numerous routes with degrees of difficulty up to IX- have been opened in the rock of the Rofanspitze.

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