Welser hut

Welser Hütte ; ÖAV hut category I
Mountain range	Dead Mountains
Geographical location:	47 ° 43 '24 " N , 14 ° 2' 58" E Coordinates: 47 ° 43 '24 " N , 14 ° 2' 58" E
Altitude	1726 m above sea level A.
owner	PES section Wels
Built	1969/71
Construction type	Hut; Wood
Development	Material ropeway
Usual opening times	Beginning of June to mid-September
accommodation	28 beds, 80 camps
Winter room	20 bearings
Web link	www.welserhuette-gruenau.com
Hut directory	ÖAV DAV

The Welser Hut is a Category I refuge of the Austrian Alpine Club in the Upper Austrian part of the Dead Mountains . It is located at 1726 m above sea level in the arable pit at the northern foot of the Großer Priel ( 2515 m ) and the Schermberg ( 2396 m ). The hut is supplied via a material cable car .

history

The development of the Dead Mountains took place at the end of the 19th century almost exclusively from the Stodertal and Aussee . It was not until the Wels section, under its chairman Sepp Huber, that the Almtal and Dead Mountains began to be developed from the north. Sepp Huber was instrumental in creating the north-facing climbs to the karst plateau, such as the Grießkarsteig, and in tough negotiations with the landowners, he pushed through the construction of shelters. The first Welser hut was opened in 1920. Just one year later, the section leased the Almtalerhaus in the Hetzau, a former hunting lodge. In 1921/22 the Sepp-Huber-Steig was built over the Röllsattel and in 1927 the Pühringerhütte was opened. This first Welser hut was destroyed by an avalanche in 1923. The second hut was completed in 1923 and expanded in 1930. This was abandoned when the current building was built from 1969 to 1971.

Transitions to the neighboring huts

Prielschutzhaus , 1420 m , walking time 3½ hours
Pühringerhütte , 1638 m , walking time 4 hours

Tours from the Welser Hut

Großer Priel , 2515 m , approx. 2 hours
Schermberg , 2396 m approx. 2 hours
Temlberg , 2327 m approx. 3 hours
Almtaler Köpfl , 2204 m over the Schermberg via ferrata Tassilo
Kreuz , 2180 m and Zwillingkogel , 2187 m

literature

Gisbert Rabeder: Alpine Club Leader Dead Mountains . For hikers, mountaineers and climbers, Bergverlag Rother , June 2005, ISBN 3-7633-1244-7

Web links

Commons : Welser Hütte - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Alpine history - Grünau im Almtal. Retrieved May 21, 2010 .

[1] Alpine history - Grünau im Almtal. Retrieved May 21, 2010 .