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Sag tooth
The Sag tooth from the north

The sagittarius from the north

height 2228  m above sea level A.
location Tyrol , Austria
Mountains Brandenberg Alps
Dominance 0.55 km →  Rofanspitze
Notch height 62 m ↓  unnamed notch
Coordinates 47 ° 27 '12 "  N , 11 ° 47' 53"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '12 "  N , 11 ° 47' 53"  E
Sagzahn (Tyrol)
Sag tooth
Normal way from the Bayreuther Hütte over the Vordere Sonnwendjoch and over the main ridge
The Sag tooth from the southwest

The Sag tooth from the southwest

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The Sagzahn is a 2228 meter high mountain in the Rofan Mountains , a subgroup of the Brandenberg Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol . The mountain bears its name, derived from sawtooth , because its jagged shape protrudes from its surroundings like a tooth. Viewed from the south, it appears only as a rock hump in the course of the Rofan main ridge, which runs north-south here, but to the east, the Sagzahn has a large geographical dominance over the alpine pastures to the east due to its impressive walls made of the hard rock of the main dolomite . Due to its easy accessibility from Lake Achensee and Münster in the Inn Valley , it is a popular destination for mountaineers and alpine climbers .

Surroundings

The Sagzahn rises in the north-south running main ridge of the Rofan Mountains and forms the second highest point of the chain. The neighboring mountain is in the north, separated by the so-called chocolate bar , which is impressive in its strangely shaped east wall , the 2259 meter high Rofanspitze . To the south, the end of the Rofan main ridge is the Vordere Sonnwendjoch , 2224 meters high. To the west, the terrain slopes down to about 40 ° with grassy and rugged areas to the Schermsteinalm . The east side of the Sagzahn, however, consists of steep walls up to 350 meters high with an extensive debris base that extends to the Zireinalm at an altitude of around 1700 meters. The closest places are in the south-east of Münster in the Inn Valley, which is 4.5 kilometers as the crow flies , and Eben am Achensee, which is a good 5 kilometers in the south-west.

geology

See article Hochiss

Tourist development

Since the area was settled early due to its fertile soil and the Sagzahn is easy to climb from the south and west, there are no records of first ascent in the 19th century. Today a dense network of hiking trails leads through the Rofan Mountains and the Sagzahn can be easily reached from the Bayreuther Hütte , at 1576 meters northwest of Münster. The normal route (easiest ascent) from the hut leads, according to literature, two hours first to the Vordere Sonnwendjoch and then in a northerly direction over the grassy ridge to the summit cross . An ascent is also possible from the Erfurter Hütte (1831 m). This runs in a north-easterly direction over the Grubastieg up to the Grubascharte at 2102 meters above sea level, then south below the Rofanspitze to the Schafsteigsattel (2173 m). From there, a trail secured with wire ropes leads through the western wall of the Sagzahn to the summit. The walking time for this variant is around 3 hours.

Climb

The Sagzahn has been climbing since 1912, when Herbert Eichhorn reached the summit via the north ridge with today's difficulty level UIAA III . In 1926 Schmid and Moser climbed through the intersection of the east wall's pillars in grade UIAA-V and since 1947 Matthias Rebitsch climbed further routes freely through the east face, which are classified as UIAA VI. Until the early 1990s, many new ones were performing opened, then in the route Atamaca first time there the VIII. UIAA level achieved (first ascent Hanspeter Jesus Schrattenthaler and Darshano L. Rieser , 1992).

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