Türkenkopf (Saxon Switzerland)
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| location | Saxony , Germany | |
| Mountains | Saxon Switzerland | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '44 " N , 14 ° 5' 11" E | |
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| First ascent | 1905 | |
The Türkenkopf is a climbing peak north of the health resort Rathen in Saxon Switzerland.
Naming and location
The summit is named after its shape, which resembles a head with an attached fez , a headgear that was often worn in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the first ascent of the summit in 1905 and was therefore associated with Turks in Central Europe .
In contrast to the valley guard , which can be seen from afar , the neighboring Turk's head is hardly recognizable from Rathen, as it does not stand out from the field stones and honey stones behind it . With a maximum wall height of 45 meters on the valley side, it is slightly smaller than the valley guard and the directly adjacent eastern Feldkopf, in the notch on the mountain side, the height is only 20 to 25 meters. The distinctive shape of the summit head, which sits on a broad substructure, can only be seen well up close or from a point above the summit.
Climbing summit
The Turk's head, with its summit head apparently overhanging on all sides, was already considered by Rudolf Fehrmann as an important peak in the area around 1900. The Türkenkopf was climbed for the first time on March 22, 1905 by Johannes Klitzsch on today's Alten Weg , a route in today's Saxon difficulty level III. Shortly after the first ascent, a small iron weather vane was installed on the summit , but it was removed again in the following years. In 1908 the north-eastern edge followed , a route of difficulty level V. The south face , which was first climbed in 1915, is also classified with a V , one of the most popular and often classified as "classic" routes in the Rathen climbing area . The Türkenkopf now has a good 15 climbing routes, most of which are of medium difficulty and some of which allude to the name of the summit with path names such as Sultana , Belly Dance or Im Harem . The hardest route is with VIIIb ( RP VIIIc) the route Turban, which Falk Heinicke first started in 2003 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Fehrmann: The mountaineer in Saxon Switzerland . Johannes Siegel Publishing House, Dresden 1908 p. 84
- ↑ The most beautiful climbing routes in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, at www.on-sight.de , accessed on November 23, 2013
- ↑ Klassisch V, on www.gipfelbuch.de , accessed on November 23, 2013
- ↑ Dietmar Heinicke (Ed.): Climbing Guide Sächsische Schweiz, Volume Wehlenergebiet / Rathenergebiet / Brand. Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-934514-06-5 , p. 252 ff.