Voisthaler Hut
| Voisthaler Hütte ÖAV hut category I |
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 Voisthaler Hut (1992) |
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| location | Upper Dullwitz; Styria | |
| Mountain range | Hochschwab | |
| Geographical location: | 47 ° 36 '43.9 " N , 15 ° 10' 50.7" E | |
| Altitude | 1654 m above sea level A. | |
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| owner | ÖAV - local group Voisthaler | |
| Construction type | hut | |
| Usual opening times | Mid-May to late October | |
| accommodation | 25 beds, 35 camps | |
| Winter room | 5 bearings | |
| Hut directory | ÖAV DAV | |
The Voisthalerhütte , opened on July 10th, 1898, is an alpine club hut in the high valley of the Upper Dullwitz of the Hochschwab group ( Styria ). It is located on the North Alpine Trail and the North-South Long Distance Hiking Trail . It was built by the "Alpine Gesellschaft d'Voisthaler", later a section of the Austrian Alpine Association (ÖAV), which in 2018 as the local group Voisthaler together with the huts it looks after (Voisthalerhütte, Sonnschien-Hütte and Fleischer-Bivakschachtel near the Hochschwab summit) was incorporated into the Austria section of the Alpine Club . The desolate state of construction of the Voisthaler hut after a century made a new building necessary, which will be built in 2020 and opened in 2021.
Ascent
- Aflenzer Bürgeralm (1,500 m), walking time: 3½ hours
- Gh. Bodenbauer (884 m), walking time: 4 hours (via Trawiessattel)
- Gh. Schwabenbartl (814 m), walking time: 2¾ hours (if there is snow, the Ochsensteig is not accessible; detour via Reitsteig is approx. 1 hour longer)
- Seewiesen (950 m), walking time: 2½ hours
New building
After the merger of the Voisthalers with the Austria section, a new building was decided due to the poor state of construction of the hut, which made renovation in accordance with modern technical and environmental requirements uneconomical due to official requirements. The hut keeper Thomas Panhölzl stopped working after six years. He was followed by Lieselotte Schleicher and Maja Ludwig as the new hut landlady duo in the 2019 summer season. As with the now completed Seethalerhütte on the Dachsteinwarte, an architectural competition was announced (jury chairman Arch. DI Doris Hallama), in which nine architectural offices took part. The first prize was awarded to the Graz-based “Dietger Wissounig Architects ZT GmbH”, followed by the application in the entire association and the preparation of the submission plans for the building permit.
In the opinion of the jury, the award-winning design best meets the catalog of requirements. A simple, cuboid structure with a slightly inclined, south-facing monopitch roof is positioned in such a way that the material ropeway for the supply ends directly in the basement of the hut, saving labor. The area is optimally used without a lot of demolition and backfill work from two basement floors for technical and storage rooms and three floors (kitchen and guest rooms for 70 people, rooms for tenants and staff, bedrooms with rooms with two to six beds, no large mattress store) monolithic structure follows the maxims of modesty and restraint. The facades consist of rough-sawn larch wood boards, the weathering of which is supposed to reflect the effects of weather and environmental influences. A winter room is not planned, the vestibule of the entrance serves as an emergency room when the hut is closed.
Technically, the hut is designed according to the current state of energy and resource saving technology. Photovoltaic panels on the pent roof are part of a bivalent power supply consisting of solar power, buffer batteries and a rapeseed-heated combined heat and power plant for longer periods of bad weather. A sophisticated trivalent heat generation system feeds a pumped hot water heater, uses the waste heat from power generation and heat exchangers on the kitchen stove and flue pipe with a buffer storage tank; the hot water pipes are designed as a circulation system; a biological wastewater treatment plant for kitchen and sanitary wastewater is standard. Sun terraces and a covered bouldering wall at the hut should also offer hikers and climbers an attractive ambience outdoors. At 1.6 million euros, the project costs are only relatively slightly higher than the renovation of the old hut would have cost (1.4 million). A fundraising campaign was started to finance the project.
Tours
- Hochschwab (2,277 m), walking time: 2¼ hours
- Hutkogel (2,035 m), walking time: 1 hour
- Karlhochkogel (2,096 m), walking time: 1½ hours (unmarked from Trawiessattel, only accessible in clear weather)
- Mitteralm (1,900 m), walking time: 2 hours
- Ringkamp (2,153 m), walking time: 2½ hours
- Wetterkogel (2,055 m), walking time: 1 hour
Transition to other huts
- Fölzalm (1,480 m), walking time 1 hour
- Fleischer bivouac (2,153 m), walking time: 3 hours
- Schiestlhaus (2,153 m), walking time: 2 hours
- Sonnschienhütte (1,526 m), walking time: 6 hours
Individual evidence
- ↑ Opening of the Voisthalerhütte. In: Das Vaterland , Morgenblatt, July 3, 1898, p. 5, column 3 middle. (Online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Ulf Tomaschek: Demolition party with Kinky Slinky. In: Kleine Zeitung (Graz). Styria Media Group, October 24, 2018, accessed April 1, 2019 .
- ^ Karin Elixhauser, Harald Herzog: Architecture competition Voisthalerhütte. Austrian Alpine Club Section Austria, June 2018, accessed on April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Alpenverein Austria Nachrichten, year 126/2, April-June 2019, editorial p. 3
- ↑ Marie-Louise Eckel Berger: Details of replacement building , Austria Alpine Club News, born 126/2, May-June 2019, p 10
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Web links
- Voisthaler section of the Austrian Alpine Club
- Another enlargement. - Touristic. The Voisthalerhütte on the upper Dullwitz near Seewiesen .. In: Badener Zeitung , October 31, 1928, p. 4, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ).