Great Hell Valley

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The Große Höllental towards the valley exit. On the left the Klobenwand, on the right the Loswand and in the background the western part of the Schneeberg massif . In the back right the monastery coat of arms, Lower Austria's highest peak.

The Große Höllental in Lower Austria is an open rock basin and a side valley of the Höllental on the northeast side of the Rax massif next to the Weichtalhaus .

description

The valley is a karstified dry valley . The steep-walled rock basin in north-south direction is around four kilometers long. The valley is bounded on the west by the Klobenwand , which belongs to the municipality of Schwarzau in the mountains ; On the east side through the Loswand , which is located in the municipality of Reichenau an der Rax . The hydrographic area is 9.75 km².

The valley is open to the Schwarza in the north (at about 540  m above sea level ), but fenced and only accessible via the Schönbrunner staircase named after the technician of the Vienna waterworks Franz Schönbrunner . At the entrance to the valley, next to Höllental Straße, there is a memorial for the original sources of the first Viennese high spring water pipeline , the Höllentalquellen monument .

The southwestern head of the valley is in the area of ​​the Wolfgang Dirnbacher Hut at 1,477 m. On the south-east side at the end of the valley, the Höllentalblick was built by the German and Austrian Alpine Association on a rocky nose (1620 m) in 1910 .

Above the Klobenwand, the Rudolfsteig is laid out parallel to the longitudinal axis of the Großer Höllental and the Wachthütt ( e ) lkammsteig to the east . No hiking trail leads from the valley itself to the Rax massif plateau, but there are four via ferratas, some of which are moderately difficult .

Rise

Rudolfsteig

The Rudolfsteig was built by the Austrian Mountain Association and was ceremoniously ascended on August 8, 1920. A partly steep hiking trail that mostly leads along the upper edge of the cliffs of the Klobenwand. The starting point is the Höllental Straße next to the Weichtalhaus, the end point is at Klobentörl at 1648 m, and around 1100 meters in altitude are overcome.

Wachthütt (e) lkammsteig

This was built on Wachthütt (e) lkamm in 1906 by the alpine company D'Speckbacher. A very easy via ferrata - more like a hiking trail - that only reaches difficulty level A of via ferratas through the many flat ladders in the lower area . The start of the climb is on Höllentalstraße just before an avalanche gallery next to the Weichtalhaus. The “extended” end point is the Otto-Schutzhaus at 1642 m, with around 1100 meters of altitude to be overcome.

Alpine Club Trail

The start of the Alpine Club Trail

The via ferrata with a difficulty level B leads from the rear valley floor to the Höllental view (1620 m). It was built at the instigation of Camillo Kronich (1876-1958) in the interest of direct access from the Großer Höllental to the Otto-Schutzhaus (1644 m) managed by Kronich by the Viennese master locksmith August Cepl and on October 9, 1910 in the presence of the President of the DÖAV Main Committee, Adolf von Guttenberg (1839-1917), opened. Entry is at a height of around 1000 m via five steep ladders at the Ceplwand.

Hoyossteig

The Hoyossteig was built in 1912 at the instigation of Ernst Karl Graf Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1856–1940). The via ferrata with a level of difficulty A / B overcomes the Klobenwand on the west side of the Großer Höllental and leads from around the middle of the basin up to the Rudolfsteig.

Teufelsbadstubensteig

The origin of this path in the classic style is a hunting path that Archduke Johann had built in 1802. After this was forgotten, the Austrian Tourist Club had a climbing system built in 1894. The via ferrata with a difficulty level B overcomes the east-facing rock face of the Großer Höllental. It leads from about the middle of the basin over the Loswand up to the Wachthütt (e) lkammsteig.

More climbing

  • Gaislochsteig (Listlsteig); this leads from the rear valley floor over the south-western end of the valley (Geißloch) to the Wolfgang-Dirnbacher-Hütte (1477 m) and offers ice climbing in winter .
  • Gustav-Jahn-Steig; This trail, named after the Viennese high alpinist and painter Gustav Jahn (1879-1919), not least in recognition of his performance in the construction of the Alpine Club Trail, which was opened a year earlier, forms a cross-connection between the Alpine Club Trail and the Gaislochsteig and has a B level of difficulty. Like the Alpenvereinssteig, it was built by the art locksmith August Cepl at the instigation of Camillo Kronich; it was released on July 22, 1911.

Web links

Commons : Großes Höllental  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NÖGIS → Topic Water Book → Catchment Area Layer (WLV) .
  2. ↑ Via ferrata atlas Alps ; Bergverlag Rother , 6th edition, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7633-8087-9 , p. 117 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ a b Der Standard : Around the Great Hell Valley ; Retrieved Oct. 11, 2010
  4. ↑ Ceremonial opening and first ascent of the newly built Rudolfsteige to the Raxalpe. In:  Der Gebirgsfreund. Journal of the Austrian Mountain Association , year 1920, No. 7–8 / 1920, August 1, 1920 (XXXI. Year), p. 107 (unpaginated). (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gbf.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Difficulty level according to via ferrata guide Austria ; Alpinverlag, 2nd edition, Bad Häring 2008, ISBN 978-3-9500920-8-0
  6. ^ Sonnabend.at: Alpenvereinssteig (AB) ; Retrieved Oct. 12, 2010
  7. ↑ Miscellaneous. (...) The new Raxsteig . In: Heinrich Heß (Red.): Messages from the German and Austrian Alpine Club . No. 21/1910. New series Volume XXVI, whole series: Volume XXXV (born 1910), p. 258 f. (Online at ALO ).
  8. ↑ Via ferrata guide Austria ; Alpinverlag, 2nd edition, Bad Häring 2008, ISBN 978-3-9500920-8-0 , p. 391
  9. ↑ Via ferrata atlas Alps ; Bergverlag Rother, 6th edition, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7633-8087-9 , p. 118 in the Google book search
  10. ↑ Miscellaneous. (...) Opening of a new Raxsteig . In: Heinrich Heß (Red.): Messages from the German and Austrian Alpine Club . No. 15/1911. New episode Volume XXVII, entire series: Volume XXXVI (born 1911), p. 172, bottom right. (Online at ALO ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ 1914: Grade 3–4 according to Franz Dénes (1845–1934). - See: Fatal crash of a Viennese tourist on the Rax. Crashed 600 meters deep. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , Mittagsblatt, No. 102/1914 (XXVIth year), April 14, 1914, p. 4, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze;
    (Dénes life data :) Anton Klipp: The High Tatras and the Carpathian Association . Karpatendeutsches Kulturwerk Slovakia, Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 3-927020-12-5 , p. 76.

Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 29 "  N , 15 ° 45 ′ 23"  E