Skull hut
| Totenkopfhütte PWV hut |
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 Skull hut |
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| location | Palatinate Forest ( Middle Palatinate Forest ); District of Südliche Weinstrasse ( Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany ); Valley location: Sankt Martin / Breitenstein | |
| Mountain range | Palatinate Forest | |
| Geographical location: | 49 ° 19 '18.7 " N , 8 ° 2' 58.6" E | |
| Altitude | 514 m above sea level NHN | |
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| owner | Palatinate Forest Association "Maikammer Local Group" | |
| Construction type | Hut; Sandstone | |
| Usual opening times | Saturday / Sunday / Holidays | |
The Totenkopfhütte is a refuge on the Totenkopf mountain saddle in the Palatinate Forest . It is located in the forest area of Maikammer in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Südliche Weinstrasse . The hut is managed by the Maikammer local group of the Palatinate Forest Association .
Geographical location
The Totenkopfhütte stands near the eastern edge of the Middle Palatinate Forest leading to the Haardt at 513.7 m above sea level. NHN high mountain saddle skull. It is located between the Rotsohlberg ( 607.1 m ) in the south-southeast and the Oberscheid ( 582.3 m ) in the northeast. A few meters north of the hut, the Maikammer forest area borders on that of the Neustadt district of Diedesfeld .
history
The knight's stone no. 246 in front of the hut with the engraved inscription road embankment route Speyer - Metz indicates that during the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages the Roman road or old road ran over the mountain saddle.
On New Year's Eve 1960/61, the Kimmel gang from the region set fire to the Totenkopfhütte, which at that time had neither water nor electricity and also had no effective heating, and it was badly damaged. Afterwards only poorly renovated, the hut was taken over as a club house in 1966 by the Maikammer local group of the Palatinate Forest Association.
The association carried out the first fundamental alterations and expansions from 1967 to 1969. In 1970 an extension with a large dining area was built, and later there were further construction work and renovations. The masonry building ensemble today consists of a two-story main building with two one-and-a-half-story extensions.
Traffic and walking
The Totenkopfstraße leads south past the Totenkopfhütte , which as state road 514 connects the local community of Sankt Martin in the southeast with the hamlet of Breitenstein in the northwest and is a popular excursion route . There is a parking lot for hikers by the hut .
From the Totenkopfhütte, the Kalmit summit ( 672.6 m ) can be reached in the east via the Hüttenhohl pass ( 476.9 m ) and the Hüttenberg ( 620.1 m ) with its sea of rocks. Other destinations in the south are the 600 m high hiking area around Rotsohlberg, Schafkopf ( 616.8 m ) and Morschenberg ( 608.3 m ) and Steigerkopf ( 613.6 m ), in the west the Argenbach valley towards Breitenstein and in the north the Kaltenbrunn valley with the Kaltenbrunnertalbach in the direction of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . Other huts of the Palatinate Forest Association located in the vicinity are the Kalmithaus , the Hellerplatzhaus (Hellerhütte) , the Haus an den Fichten and the Edenkobener Hütte am Hüttenbrunnen .
The hut has no overnight accommodation.
literature
- AK Doerr: Palatinate Hüttenbuch - The guide to 99 rest houses and hikers' homes . Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt Ludwigshafen GmbH, 4th edition June 2018, ISBN 978-3-87629-341-7 , p. 98.
- State Office for Surveying and Basic Geographic Information Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Palatinate Forest Nature Park . Topographic map 1: 25,000. Sheet 6, Oberhaardt from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse to Queichtal , 2010, ISBN 978-3-89637-402-8 .
- Pietruska hiking map: Edenkoben: The holiday region between Landau and Neustadt . 1: 25,000, 3rd edition. Pietruska Verlag, Rülzheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-945138-04-5 .
- Pietruska hiking map: Hauenstein & Trifelsland . 1: 25,000, 3rd edition. Pietruska Verlag, Rülzheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-945138-02-1 .
Web links
- Totenkopfhütte on pwv-maikammer.de
- Totenkopfhütte on tourenwelt.info
Individual evidence
- ^ LANIS: Topographic Map. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Totenkopfhütte. PWV , Maikammer local group, accessed on December 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Good to know • Eventful hut history. PWV , Maikammer local group, accessed on December 16, 2015 .