Stuhleck
| Stuhleck | ||
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 Stuhleck in winter |
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| height | 1782 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Styria , Austria | |
| Mountains | Fischbacher Alps , foothills east of the Mur | |
| Dominance | 14.9 km → Heukuppe | |
| Notch height | 798 m ↓ Semmering | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 34 '27 " N , 15 ° 47' 24" E | |
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| rock | Phyllitic mica schist | |
Stuhleck is 1782 m above sea level. A. the highest mountain in the Fischbach Alps in Styria ( Austria ).
Location, development
It is one of the easternmost summit of the Alps , still on the tree line extends. The Alois Günther House is located at the summit . From the Pfaffensattel , a mountain pass ( 1372 m above sea level ) between the towns of Rettenegg and Steinhaus am Semmering , an unpaved toll road , which is only open in summer, leads to the summit.
The Stuhleck was the first mountain peak in Austria to be climbed on skis in winter . In February 1892 Toni Schruf , hotelier from Mürzzuschlag , the Graz factory director (metal industry) and sports pioneer Max Kleinoscheg (1862–1940) and the postal clerk Walther Wenderich climbed the summit on skis from Mürzzuschlag. Last but not least, this pioneering act made the region around Semmering one of the first winter sports areas in Austria.
Today the west side of the Stuhleck is accessible from Spital am Semmering almost to the summit with several chair lifts and ski lifts and is a much frequented ski area , popular especially with day-trippers from Vienna , Burgenland , Lower Austria , Styria , Slovakia and Hungary . It is the largest ski area that can be reached by car from Vienna within just one hour since the Semmering Tunnel opened .
Around 1870, on the initiative of the alpinist Gustav Jäger (1815–1875), the Stuhleck refuge was built on the summit of the Stuhleck . On August 10, 1889, the Semmering Alpine Club section opened the Stuhleck Hut , which burned down on May 18, 1892 by a set fire, but was rebuilt 25 meters further south from November 25 of that year. The new building was to be carried out by the oldest alpine company of the Lower Austrian Mountain Association , D'Stuhlecker , but internal discrepancies prompted the company to withdraw completely from the Stuhleck work area and to complete the rough construction that had already been provisionally set up - without the consensus of the company (by one of its honorary members) - To vacate the shelter in 1894. On September 1, 1907, D'Stuhlecker opened a Stuhlecker refuge .
From the early 1890s, the Austrian Tourist Club operated the Gustav-Jäger-Schutzhaus at 1,737 meters above sea level , which, however, increasingly fell into disrepair and was subsequently leased to the Austrian Ski Association (based in Vienna), which was founded in 1892 . After the house was adapted for winter sports, it was opened as the Nansen Hut between December 25 and 27, 1896. In 1905/06 the Austrian Ski Association waived any rights to the (storm-damaged) Nansen Hut vis-à-vis the ÖTC ; in 1910, only rubble was likely to have been left of the building .
On November 1, 1926, the Stuhleck-Schutzhaus was reached with a two-stroke engine powered automobile .
Trivia
On March 15, 2012, the triathlete and long-distance cyclist Michael Strasser on the Stuhleck covered more than 8,848 vertical meters in ski mountaineering within 22 hours and two minutes . In the 8848 project - Nonstop on Everest, he managed several ascents of 980 meters in altitude and with the descents came a total of 97 km. A first attempt in December 2011 had to be aborted due to an upcoming snow storm.
gallery
Alois Günther House on the summit
Summit cross with prayer flags and a view of Sonnwendstein in the background
Summit with Alois Günther House
Signpost at the Pfaffensattel in the direction of Stuhleck
Stuhleck and the surrounding area (top left) around the year 1876 (recording sheet of the state survey )
literature
- Gustav Jäger: The Stuhleck at Spital am Semmering and The Guide on the Southern Railway from Vienna to Bruck an der Mur. (...) With botanical and geognostic data and a panorama of Stuhleck. Finsterbeck, Vienna 1868 ( full text ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Alps in the world exhibition. In: Vienna World Exhibition Sheet. Supplement to the community newspaper , No. 67/1873, August 9, 1873, p. 1, column 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) The opening of the Stuhleck Hut. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 8977/1889, August 22, 1889, p. 5, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Daily news. (...) Schutzhaus on the Stuhleck. In: Neuigkeits-Welt-Blatt , Morgenblatt, No. 274/1892, November 30, 1892, p. 4 (unpaginated), column 1. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Building a shelter on the Stuhleck. In: Der Gebirgsfreund. Journal of the Lower Austrian Mountain Association , year 1894, No. 7/1894 (5th year), p. 77, column 2. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ On the occasion of the opening and inauguration of their Stuhlecker shelter (...). In: Austrian tourist newspaper. Official organ of the Austrian Tourist Club , year 1907, August 16, 1907, No. 16/1907 (XXVII. Year), p. 227, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Mürzzuschlag. December 18th. In: Grazer Tagblatt , morning edition, No. 354/1896 (VI. Year), December 23, 1896, p. 5, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ "Telemark.": Winter sports. (...) letter. In: Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung. Weekly for all branches of sport , year 1910, morning edition, No. 102/1910 (XXXI. Year), p. 1479 (online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Notes. (...) By car to the Stuhleck shelter. In: Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung , No. 9622/1926 (XXVII. Volume), November 4, 1926, p. 9, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Everest height reached with helmet light and GPS. NÖN , March 21, 2012, accessed October 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Project “8848 - Nonstop on Everest”. triaguide.com, 2012, accessed October 1, 2018 .
Remarks
- ↑ The shelter on the Stuhleck burned down. In: Badener Bezirks-Blatt , May 21, 1892, p. 3, center right. (Online at ANNO ). - In the message, the Stuhleckhaus is wrongly equated with the Gustav-Jäger-Schutzhaus .