Waltenbergerhaus

Waltenbergerhaus ; DAV hut category I
	The new Waltenbergerhaus
location	below the girl's fork; Bavaria , Germany ; Valley location: Oberstdorf
Mountain range	Allgäu Alps
Geographical location:	47 ° 17 '51.7 " N , 10 ° 16' 55.9" E Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '51.7 " N , 10 ° 16' 55.9" E
Altitude	2084 m above sea level NHN
owner	Allgäu-Immenstadt section of the DAV
Built	1875/2017
Construction type	hut
Usual opening times	Pentecost to early October
accommodation	42 beds, 28 camps , 5 emergency camps
Winter room	14 bearings
Web link	Website of the section
Hut directory	ÖAV DAV

The Waltenbergerhaus is an Alpine Club hut belonging to the Allgäu-Immenstadt section of the German Alpine Club . Where there used to be a 130-year-old stone house, a modern, slightly rounded wooden building with a pent roof has stood since 2017 .

location

The hut is located in the Allgäu Alps near Oberstdorf , below the Mädelegabel on Heilbronner Weg . The direct neighbors are the Rappenseehütte ( 2091 m , approx. 5 hours) and the Kemptner Hütte ( 1846 m , approx. 4 hours).

history

Waltenbergerhaus around Easter 1887

Old hut in 2007 before the new building

In the summer of 1875, the DuÖAV section Allgäu-Immenstadt in the Allgäu Alps laid the foundation stone for a refuge below the Mädelegabel, the first Alpine Club hut in the Allgäu and the second in the Bavarian Alps and the fifth in the Northern Eastern Alps. Construction was completed just six weeks later. The opening took place on September 5, 1875 in wonderful weather. It was named after him in honor of the section co-founder and then board member Anton Waltenberger . Because of the poor location, however, a new Waltenbergerhaus had to be built in the vicinity nine years later. The Waltenbergerhaus and the Kaufbeurerhaus are the only alpine club huts in the Allgäu Alps that do not have a material cable car and are therefore dependent on being supplied by helicopter.

From 1978 to 2010 Gerhard ("Mandi") Böllmann († 2011 at the age of 64) worked as a hut manager.

In June 2013, the Allgäu-Immenstadt section of the German Alpine Club decided to demolish the hut and replace it with a new building. The demolition work began in September 2015 and the new building could be completed by July 2017. The construction costs should amount to 3.2 million euros.

After more than 2500 helicopter deployments and total costs of 3.4 million euros, the new house was opened on Corpus Christi.

Ascent

from Birgsau (950 m) via Einödsbach (1113 m), walking time: 3½ hours

Tour possibilities

Transitions to neighboring huts

Kemptner Hütte via Bockkarscharte and the Heilbronner Weg , walking time: 3½ hours
Rappenseehütte via Heilbronner Weg , walking time: 4 hours

summit

Mädelegabel (2645 m), walking time: 2½ hours
Bockkarkopf (2608 m), walking time: 1½ hours
High light (2652 m), walking time: 2½ hours
Trettachspitze (2595 m), walking time: 3 hours

literature

Dieter Seibert: Allgäuer Alpen Alpin, alpine club guide . Bergverlag Rother , Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7633-1126-2 .
Alpine Club Card BY 2/1 Allgäuer-Lechtaler Alpen - West (1: 25,000), ISBN 978-3-928777-13-1
Alpine club card BY 4 Allgäuer Hochalpen - Hochvogel, Krottenkopf (1: 25,000), ISBN 978-3-937530-44-4

Web links

Commons : Waltenbergerhaus - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Section-Immenstadt in the DAV
Hut on your-berge.de
Waltenberger Haus in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)

Individual evidence

↑ Annexes to the history of the association - IV. Refuges. In: Journal of the German and Austrian Alpine Association Volume 50, 1919, p. 199 ( digitized version ).
^ Allgäuer Zeitung : Hüttenwirt Gerhard "Mandi" Böllmann from Waltenhofen died. all-in.de, June 25, 2011. Accessed August 20, 2019.
↑ Michael Munkler: Waltenbergerhaus in the Oberstdorf mountains is being demolished. Allgäuer Zeitung , June 10, 2013, accessed on June 10, 2013 : "At the current location - presumably in 2016 - new accommodation is to be built."
^ Waltenbergerhaus: The oldest Alpine Club hut in the Allgäu is being demolished. Augsburger Allgemeine , August 29, 2015
^ Report of the BR (topic mountains) from June 15, 2017, accessed on June 29, 2017

[1] Annexes to the history of the association - IV. Refuges. In: Journal of the German and Austrian Alpine Association Volume 50, 1919, p. 199 ( digitized version ).

[2] Allgäuer Zeitung : Hüttenwirt Gerhard "Mandi" Böllmann from Waltenhofen died. all-in.de, June 25, 2011. Accessed August 20, 2019.

[all-in.de_2013-06-10-3] Michael Munkler: Waltenbergerhaus in the Oberstdorf mountains is being demolished. Allgäuer Zeitung , June 10, 2013, accessed on June 10, 2013 : "At the current location - presumably in 2016 - new accommodation is to be built."

[4] Waltenbergerhaus: The oldest Alpine Club hut in the Allgäu is being demolished. Augsburger Allgemeine , August 29, 2015

[5] Report of the BR (topic mountains) from June 15, 2017, accessed on June 29, 2017