Windbachkees
| Windbachkees | ||
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| location | Windbachtal , Salzburg | |
| Mountains | Zillertal Alps | |
| Type | historical valley / Kar glacier | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 5 ' N , 12 ° 8' E | |
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| drainage | Windbach | |
| particularities | old Krimmler Tauern route; disappeared in the early 20th century: Eissee and Schafseewl | |
The Windbachkees ( Kees , Tyrolean-Salzburg 'glacier') is a glacier on the Krimmler Tauern in Salzburg that disappeared in the early 20th century .
The glacier stretched on the northeast flank of the Dreiecker into the Windbachtal , a left side valley of the Krimmler Achental in Oberpinzgau . This glacier carved out the Windbachtal during the Ice Ages and then, in the course of the glacier retreat, represented a secondary glacier of the Venediger Glacier , and then the headwaters of the Windbach .
After the Medieval Warm Period , the glacier is likely to have largely disappeared; the Atlas Tyrolensis from 1774 only lists one glacier in the area of the ice lake . In the Little Ice Age of the 18th and 19th centuries By the 19th century, it will have fully developed again, at least as a Kar glacier in the nutrient area of the former Windbach Glacier.
In the middle of the 19th century the glacier stretched along the entire ridge from Glockenkarkopf (Rauchkesselspitze, 2911 m ) to Tauernkogel (Kererspitze, 2872 m ), Schütttalkopf (Schöntalspitze, 2773 m ), Dreiecker (Feldspitze, Windbachspitze 2829 m ), Seewlaser Schneid (Säbelschneid, 2854 m above sea level ), Seekarkopf (Schwarzer Kopf, Kässkarkopf, Eiskarkopf, 2912 m above sea level ) to the Zillerplattenspitze ( 2912 m above sea level ). In doing so, it formed an ice sheet with the glaciers of the right rear Zillergrund ( Schwarzkarkees , of which only the Dreieckerkees but not the Zillerplattenkees ) - an ice sheet that also crossed into the Ahrntal ( Feldspitzkees ), and with the neighboring glaciers Glockenkarkees to the east, Rainbachkees to the north and Rauchkofelferner was completely connected to the west. This glacier disintegrated into the ice field on the Glockenkarkopf to the east, one on the Dreiecker, and the one to the north in the Keeskar - today's Karsee Schafseewl comes from the former, the latter still exists as a rock glacier .
At the end of the 19th century, the remaining glacier had again disintegrated into several parts, in the Lower Kessel (today's ascent to the Krimmler Tauern), on the Schüttaler Joch and in the Upper Kessel , as well as in the Seekar , where the large ice lake is located today . The rest of the glacier area is rock debris . Even Fritz Kogel , who made some first ascents in the area, reported in 1897 of "mighty landslides" between Dreiecker and Keeskarkopf that year.
Because of this glacier, the Krimmler Tauern ( 2634 m ) was probably difficult to climb in the 18th and 19th centuries, the two possible routes did not run over the current pass, to which the ascent in the glacier break of the Windbachkees went, but above over the approx . 2620 m lower, but today very bad walk bulk Taler yoke on the abandoned (upper) Tauernalm in Schüttal right after drinking stone. In addition, at times there was probably only the alternative route over the ice field at Glockenkarkopf and the Pfaffenscharte (approx. 2790 m ) - the passes were at least at times pure glacier saddles .
literature
Fritz Koegel : The Reichenspitzgruppe. In: Journal of the German and Austrian Alpine Association , Volume 28, 1897, Chapter 2. Krimmler Tauern - Zillerplatte , p. 198 ff (full article p. 188–228, online ) - Tour description from Krimml to Zillergrund and back.
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Anich, Blasius Hueber, Atlas Tyrolensis , 1774, scale 1: 103.800, Layer in Historische Kartenwerke Tirol ; the Anich map could be quite imprecise at the edge of the display.
- ↑ Black corks at Sonklar
- ^ Eduard Richter : Die Gletscher der Ostalpen series Handbuch zur deutschen Landes- und Volkskunde III, Stuttgart 1888.
- ↑ Third land survey 1864/1887, data status 1870/1873, scale 1: 25,000; Layer in historical maps of Tyrol ; is based on the new recordings by von Sonklar , but with an unreliable exact location.
- ↑ Viktor Paschinger, Alpine Research Center Obergurgl of the University of Innsbruck: The disappeared glaciers of the Eastern Alps (since the last high point around 1850) = Treatises of the Austrian Geographical Society , Volume XVIII, Vienna 1959, Chapter 8. Reichenspitz Group , p. 32 f ( full text , Dokinfo , repository.uibk.ac.at).
- ↑ As recorded in the Atlas Tyroliensis. Kogel 1897 reports that he was told this, but it seemed to him to be "difficult to believe" in view of the contemporary conditions.
- ^ Map of the princes of Tyrol and Vorarlberg (special map of Tyrol) , 1872, scale 1: 144,000; Layer in historical maps of Tyrol .