Rudolfshütte

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Rudolfshütte
(Berghotel Rudolfshütte)
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Rudolfshütte and Weißsee

Rudolfshütte and Weißsee

location North of the Kalser Tauern , on the Weißsee ; State of Salzburg , Austria ; Valley location:  Uttendorf
Mountain range Garnet group
Geographical location: 47 ° 8 '3.5 "  N , 12 ° 37' 32"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 8 '3.5 "  N , 12 ° 37' 32"  E
Altitude 2315  m above sea level A.
Rudolfshütte (State of Salzburg)
Rudolfshütte
builder Alpine Association Austria of the PES
owner Private
Built First hut in 1873, today's building in 1979
Construction type Mountain hotel
Development Cable car
Usual opening times Mid-June to late September, early December to mid-April
accommodation 200 beds, 53  camps
Web link Rudolfshütte
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The Rudolfshütte (also called Berghotel Rudolfshütte ) is located at 2315  m above sea level. A. in the Hohe Tauern National Park and is a former alpine club hut of the Alpenverein Austria section of the PES and is now a mountain hotel that, due to its past as a mountain hut , is still used as an alpine base today. The first hut was built in 1873 at the Weißsee . After the Weißsee was dammed up in order to integrate it into the Stubachwerk , the previous hut was flooded and blown up in 1952. The hut was rebuilt in the northeast of the lake and inaugurated in 1958. In 1979 it was expanded to become the Alpine Center of the PES and in 2004 it was sold by the Austrian Alpine Association to a private operator.

history

Memorial plaque for the slave laborers in World War II
Design drawing of the first Rudolfshütte by Johann Stüdl

The first Rudolphshütte , built by the Austria Section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club , was completed on September 7, 1873 and officially opened to traffic on August 25, 1875 . The construction was on the Weißsee below the Kalser Tauern , a mountain pass that makes the Kalser Valley accessible from the north. The hut was named after the then 15-year-old Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary .

The hut was originally unmanaged and had an area of ​​38 square meters. It was expanded several times, in 1899 the covered area was already 200 square meters. In the inter-war period, construction of the Stubachtal traction power plant group and the associated reservoirs began. The location of the hut was now below the target of the reservoir of the Weißsee, so before the first full damming of the lake in 1953 it was blown up because it would have been flooded up to the first floor. As a replacement, the Austria section received the three residential barracks that were originally built for the forced laborers and prisoners of war in the first construction phase from 1939 and were used by construction workers after the end of the war until the completion of the power plants on the Weißsee. These were used as an alpine base under the name Austria Dörfl until they were completed in 1958 , after which they were demolished, so that today only the foundations can be seen. At the same time, the new Rudolfshütte was rebuilt in the northeast, 65 meters above today's reservoir and inaugurated in 1958. Even at that time, it was more of an Alpine hotel than an Alpine refuge.

The next expansion phase followed from 1978 with the sale of the hut of the Austria (Vienna) section to the entire association and the expansion into the Alpine Center of the PES. The hut, which was inaugurated on December 9, 1979 in the presence of Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger , was now called "Alpinzentrum Hohe Tauern-Rudolfshütte" and functioned as the largest training center of the Austrian Alpine Club. From 1982 the Rudolfshütte was the high mountain research center of the University of Salzburg , as well as the weather and climate station of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG). In 2004 the loss-making hut was sold to a private investor and reopened as the “Berghotel Rudolfshütte” in December of the same year.

rise

The Rudolfshütte can be reached by cable car from Enzingerboden in the Stubach Valley , which branches off south of the Pinzgau Salzach Valley near Uttendorf . The ascent on foot from Enzingerboden takes two hours.

Transitions and summit goals

The following hut crossings are possible (partly over glaciers)

The following peaks are in the immediate vicinity of the hut:

The following other tours are possible from the hut:

Literature and map

  • Lia Hörmann (Red.): (The expansion of the Rudolfshütte) . In: Communications of the Austrian Alpine Club. Issue 9/10 from 1979 (full year CIV). Oesterreichischer Alpenverein, Innsbruck 1979, pp. 161-179. (Online at ALO ).
  • Geord Zlöbl: The three thousand meter peaks of East Tyrol in the Hohe Tauern National Park. With 410 color pictures and tour descriptions . Verlag Grafik Zloebl, Lienz-Tristach 2005, ISBN 3-200-00428-2 .
  • Garnet group . Alpine Club map sheet 39, 1: 25,000. Austrian Alpine Association, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-928777-75-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rudolphshütte In: Communications of the German and Austrian Alpine Club. Volume 1/1875, p. 52. (Online at ALO ).
  2. ↑ Karl Haushofer (Red.):  Austria (...) The hut that bears the name "Rudolphshütte" (...). In:  Journal of the German and Austrian Alpine Association , year 1875, (Volume VI), p. 50 middle (third section). (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / oav.
  3. ^ Nicole Slupetzky, Uli Auffermann (text): The Weißsee subcamp. Forced labor at an altitude of 2,300 m . In: bergnews.com. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Axel Jentzsch-Rabl (Red.): The Alpine Center Rudolfshütte is sold . In: bergstieg.com. September 25, 2004, accessed July 12, 2013.

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