Wildenseehütte

Wildenseehütte ; ÖAV refuge, category I
location	Wildenseealm; Styria , Austria ; Valley location: Altaussee
Mountain range	Dead Mountains
Geographical location:	47 ° 42 '0.2 " N , 13 ° 51' 34.3" E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '0.2 " N , 13 ° 51' 34.3" E
Altitude	1525 m above sea level A.
owner	ÖAV section Ausseerland
Construction type	Refuge
Usual opening times	Self-catering hut, not managed
accommodation	0 beds, 20 camps
Hut directory	ÖAV DAV

The Wildenseehütte is an unmanaged refuge of the Austrian Alpine Association in the west of the Dead Mountains in the Styrian Salzkammergut in Austria .

Location and landscape

The Wildenseehütte is located at 1525 m above sea level at the end of the Ausseer Hintertal, on the Wildenseealm not far from the Wildensee . It is located between Schönberg (Wildenkogel , 2093 m ) and Woising ( 2064 m ) in the central area of the Dead Mountains.

history

The hut was built in 1920 by the Bad Aussee section of the OeAV and is structurally largely in its original state. It has been operated as a self-catering hut since the beginning.

At the end of World War II , on May 12, 1945, Ernst Kaltenbrunner , chief of the security police and SD and head of the Reich Security Main Office, was arrested together with his adjutant Arthur Scheidler by infantrymen of the CIC under the direction of Robert Matteson at the Wildenseehütte, where they were going fled when US troops arrived.

Tour possibilities

Approaches

from Altaussee ( 727 m ) in approx. 4 hours
from Grundlsee ( 734 m ) in approx. 4½ hours
from Offensee ( 655 m ) in approx. 4½ hours
from the Loserstraße / Altaussee parking lot ( 1600 m ) in approx. 4 hours

Mountaineering

Feigentalhimmel ( 1984 m ) in approx. 2 hours
Redender Stein ( 1900 m ) in approx. 1½ hours (via Appelhaus)
Rinnerkogel ( 2012 m ) in approx. 2 hours
Woising ( 2064 m ) in approx. 2 hours (via Appelhaus)
Schönberg (Wildenkogel , 2093 m ) in approx. 4 hours

Transitions

to the Albert-Appel-Haus ( 1638 m ) in about ½ hour
to the Loserhütte ( 1498 m ) in approx. 4 hours
to the Pühringerhütte ( 1638 m ) in approx. 4 hours
to the Ischler Hütte ( 1368 m ) in approx. 8 hours

Literature & Maps

ÖK 50, sheet 97 (Bad Mitterndorf).
Alpine Club Map Bl. 15/1 (Totes Gebirge - West), 1: 25,000; Austrian Alpine Club 2014; ISBN 978-3-928777-29-2 .
Freytag & Berndt u. Artaria KG Publishing and Distribution Bl. WK 281.

Web links

Section Ausseerland in the PES

Individual evidence

^ Kurt Kettner, German Alpine Club: The Alpine Club Huts: Eastern Alps. 1997, p. 167.
^ The Last Days of Ernst Kaltenbrunner . CIA, Center for the Study of Intelligence, accessed September 3, 2017.
↑ Ulrich Schlie and Stephanie Salzmann (eds.): Spies, swindlers, treasure hunters. End of the war in Ausseerland 1945. Ausseer Kammerhofmuseum 2014.
^ Robert E. Matteson: The Capture and the Last Days of SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner. 1993.

[DAV-1] Kurt Kettner, German Alpine Club: The Alpine Club Huts: Eastern Alps. 1997, p. 167.

[2] The Last Days of Ernst Kaltenbrunner . CIA, Center for the Study of Intelligence, accessed September 3, 2017.

[3] Ulrich Schlie and Stephanie Salzmann (eds.): Spies, swindlers, treasure hunters. End of the war in Ausseerland 1945. Ausseer Kammerhofmuseum 2014.

[4] Robert E. Matteson: The Capture and the Last Days of SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner. 1993.