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Country
  
Austria

Location
  
Hinteres Oberbergtal

Built in
  
1885 (1885)

Phone
  
+43 5226 2218

Administrativedistrict
  
Tyrol

Elevation
  
2,147 m (7,044 ft) AA

Hut type
  
OeAV Hut Category I

Franz Senn Hut

Address
  
Oberberg, 6167 Neustift im Stubaital, Austria

Similar
  
Sulzenau, Neue Regensb Hütte, Amberger, Rinnensp, Dresdner Hütte

The Franz Senn Hut (German: Franz-Senn-Hütte) is a large and very popular Category I alpine hut in the Stubai Alps owned by the Austrian Alpine Club (Österreichischer Alpenverein). It is a large, well-appointed hut, named after Franz Senn. Access is from Oberiss in the Oberbergtal off the Stubaital above Neustift.

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2004 wandeling stubaital van de starkenberger hut naar de franz senn hut


History

The Franz Senn Hut was opened on 15 September 1885 having cost 3,000 florins. At the time it had accommodation for 37 people including 4 women. It was extended in 1907/08 to 20 beds and 60 shakedowns and again in 1932/33 to 80 beds and 80 sleeping places. During the Second World War a goods cableway was erected. In 1960 the hut's capacity was increased to 220.

The hut was named after a mountaineering pastor.

Access

  • By train: to Innsbruck from there to Fulpmes (on the Stubai Valley railway) and from there by bus
  • By bus: to Neustift im Stubaital, village of Milders
  • By car: to Neustift im Stubaital

    • Ascent

  • Neustift im Stubaital (1154 metre climb, duration: c. 4½ hours)
  • Oberiss Alm (402 metre climb, duration: c. 1½ hours)

    • Summits accessible from the Franz Senn Hut

  • Ruderhofspitze (3,474 m), height difference 1327 m, duration c. 5 hours, high tour)
  • Lisenerspitze (3,230 m, height difference 1080 m, duration c. 3.5 hours, glacier tour)
  • Lisenser Fernerkogel (3,266 m, height difference 1150 m, duration c. 4.5 hours, glacier tour)
  • Schafgrübler (2,921 m, height difference 780 m, duration c. 3 hours)
  • Rinnenspitze (3,003 m, height difference 850 m, duration 2.5 to 3 hours, sections of the summit ridge are secured)
  • Östliche Seespitze (3,416 m), popular but challenging ski tour
  • Westliche Seespitze (3,355 m)
  • Wildes Hinterbergl, (3,288 m), much frequented ski tour

    • Transits

    The hut is on the Stubai Hohenweg, an 8-day high level trail around the Stubai; neighbouring huts on the trail are the Starkenburger Hut and the New Regensburg Hut.

    Huts

  • Amberger Hut (2,135 m, duration: c. 6 hours)
  • Neue Regensburger Hut (2,286 m, duration: c. 4 hours auf dem Stubaier Höhenweg)
  • Starkenburger Hut (2,237 m, duration: c. 7 hours auf dem Stubaier Höhenweg
  • Adolf Pichler Hut (1,977 m, duration: c. 7 hours)
  • Westfalenhaus (2,273 m, duration: c. 6 hours)
  • Potsdamer Hut (2,020 m, duration: 5–7 hours)

    • Places

  • Neustift im Stubaital (993 m, duration: c. 4½ hours)

    • References

    Franz Senn Hut Wikipedia
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