Viktoria-Adelheid refuge

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Viktoria-Adelheid-Schutzhütte
ÖTK hut
Viktoria-Adelheid refuge
location on the Brandstetterkogel ; Lower Austria , Austria ; Valley location:  Neustadtl an der Donau
Mountain range Bohemian mass
Geographical location: 48 ° 13 '14.4 "  N , 14 ° 52' 29.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '14.4 "  N , 14 ° 52' 29.6"  E
Altitude 532  m above sea level A.
Viktoria-Adelheid-Schutzhütte (Lower Austria)
Viktoria-Adelheid refuge
owner Strudengau section of the ÖTK
Built 1936
Construction type Hut; Wood
Usual opening times all year round, except Tuesday
accommodation 0 beds, 0  camps
Hut directory ÖTK

The Viktoria-Adelheid-Schutzhütte , today mostly called Brandstetterkogelhütte , is an alpine refuge on a hilltop of the Brandstetterkogel in the village of Schaltberg in the municipality of Neustadtl an der Donau im Strudengau in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria .

description

The refuge was opened in 1936 on the site of a refuge that was opened in 1926 and has since become too small, at 532  m above sea level. A. built on a hilltop of the Brandstetterkogel and named after Viktoria Adelheid , the wife of the landowner and financier of the building, Carl Eduard Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . The Strudengau section of the Austrian Tourist Club is the owner of the refuge and maintainer of the Matras dough that ends at the hut . The Danube Heights circular hiking trail from Passau to Ybbs an der Donau leads past the refuge.

Individual evidence

  1. Ulrike and Karl-Heinz Kreiter, Alpine refuge huts