Wangenitzsee Hut (original) (raw)

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Mountain hut in Carinthia, Austria

Wangenitzsee Hut
The Wangenitzsee Hut with the Wangenitzsee in the background
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Coordinates 46°55′49″N 12°48′0″E / 46.93028°N 12.80000°E / 46.93028; 12.80000
Country Austria
State/territory Carinthia
Location Directly on the Wangenitzsee
Nearestsettlement Mörtschach
Elevation 2,508 m (8,228 ft) AA
Administration
Hut type OeAV hut Category I
Owner Austrian Alpine Club, Lienz Section
Website www.wangenitzseehuette.at
Facilities
Beds/Bunks 25
Mattresses 38
Winter room Located in ropeway building; open, with accommodation for 10 people[1]
Accessibility
Accessed by Material ropeway
Footnotes
Hut reference OeAV DAV

The Wangenitzsee Hut (German: Wangenitzseehütte) is a mountain hut in Hohe Tauern National Park, in Carinthia, Austria. It is situated directly on the Wangenitzsee, the largest lake of the Schober group of the Eastern Alps. At an altitude of 2,508 metres (8,228 ft) above sea level (AA),[2] it is the highest hut in the Schober group.[3] Depending on the weather, it opens in the middle of June and closes at the end of September. It is located on the Wiener Höhenweg [de],[2] and is supplied by a material ropeway from the Debanttal.[1][4]

The first hut was built by the Moravia/Brno section of the German Alpine Club (German: Deutscher Alpenverein (DAV)) in 1927, but it was looted and burned down in 1947. In 1966, a new, larger building was opened. This building was a club hut of the Royal Dutch Climbing and Mountaineering Club [nl] (Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Klim- en Bergsport Vereniging (NKBV)) until 2009, when the Lienz Section of the Austrian Alpine Club (German: Österreichischer Alpenverein (ÖAV)) took over.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Hütte Informationen". wangenitzseehuette.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Wangenitzsee Hütte 2.508m". www.osttirol.com. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  3. ^ "Almwanderung zur Wangenitzsee Hütte - TVB Osttirol". www.osttirol.com (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  4. ^ Anja, Larch (2019-08-29). "Auf das Osttiroler Matterhorn der Schobergruppe". Tiroler Tageszeitung Online (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-05.