Wolf Glanvell Hut
| Wolf-Glanvell-Hut (dismissed) |
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 The Wolf Glanvell Hut around 1908 |
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| location | Val Travenanzes; Belluno Province , Italy | |
| Mountain range | Ampezzo Dolomites | |
| Geographical location: | 46 ° 32 '49.3 " N , 12 ° 2' 17.1" E | |
| Altitude | 2065 m slm | |
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| owner | former "Dresden Section" of the ÖTK | |
| Built | 1907 | |
| Construction type | Refuge | |
The Wolf-Glanvell Hut was a refuge named after the alpinist Viktor Wolf von Glanvell . It was located in the Val Travenanzes , a high valley between the Fanes group in the west and the Tofana in the east, in the Italian province of Belluno at an altitude of 2065 meters. The house, completed in 1907, belonged to the Dresden section of the Austrian Tourist Club (ÖTK) . The hut was destroyed on August 1, 1915 during the fighting during the First Dolomite Offensive in the Mountain War 1915–1918 .
Location and surroundings
The hut was in the upper Travenanzes valley at an altitude of 2060 meters, west of the Rio Travenanzes . The first via ferrata in the Dolomites, the Hugo-Kunze-Steig, set up by the tenant at the time, began east of the hut . This consisted of steps carved into the stone. In the Dolomite War, the Austrians had to use this route to process part of their supplies. After losing positions in the area of the Kars Il Masaré and the Tofana di Rozes in July 1916, it was destroyed. Today's Scala del Menighel , in the same place, consists of iron pins.
history
Viktor Wolf von Glanvell represented since 1904 in the magazine of the German and Austrian Alpine Association the plan to build a refuge in the upper Travenanzestal, which should serve as a base for the tourist development of the Fanis Mountains and the Tofana . Hugo Kurz, also a friend of the Dolomites, and first chairman of the Dresden section of the ÖTK, took up the plan to build a shelter and in 1905, together with representatives of the ÖTK from Vienna and the municipal council of Cortina d'Ampezzo , began to stake out the Travenanzestal Building site. In December an extraordinary general meeting of the section decided to build a working hut and to name it in honor of Wolf von Glanvell, who died in an accident in 1905.
The log cabin style house was designed by the Innsbruck architect Othmar Sehrig. The hut had a semicircular bay window with colorful glazing in the dining room. For women there was a twin room, for men upstairs there were three rooms with 10 beds and 9 mattresses .
In the course of the First Dolomite Offensive, the advance of the Italian General Antonio Cantore got stuck near the Glanvell hut at an altitude of about 2000 meters, and several shells destroyed the house in the ensuing fighting.
Literature and map
- German and Austrian Tourist Club, Dresden Section of the Ö.T.-K: Memorandum to commemorate the consecration of the Wolf Glanvell Hut in Val Travenanzes , Dresden 1908
- Casa Editrice Tabacco , Tavagnacco: Carta topografica 1: 25.000, sheet 03, Cortina d'Ampezzo e Dolomiti Ampezzane
- Walther Schaumann , "Schauplätze des Gebirgskrieges" Volume 1b Western Dolomites, Tofans and Marmolada, Publisher: Ghedina e Tassotti Editori, Bassano del Grappa 1981
Web links
- Wolf-Glanvell-Hütte in the historical alpine archive of the alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the route on the website dolomitiparco.com ( Memento from August 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Dr. Victor Wolf von Glanvell: From the Fanis-Tofanagruppe , magazine of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, year 1904, Innsbruck 1904, p. 338 ff.
- ↑ Joachim Schindler: Bergsteigergeschichte - Hugo Kurz on the 100th anniversary of his death in: Der neue Sächsische Bergsteiger, Bulletin of the SSB , No. 4, Dresden, December 2007, p. 40
- ^ Memorandum to commemorate the consecration of the Wolf Glanvell hut in Val Travenanzes , p. 7 f.
- ↑ Detailed description of what happened on the website Il Fronte Dolomitico (Italian) ( Memento from February 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )