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Country
  
Austria

Mountain range
  
Kaiser Mountains

Built in
  
1912

Administrativedistrict
  
Tirol

Elevation
  
1,865 m (6,119 ft) AA

Fritz Pflaum Hut

Hut type
  
DAV self-service hut Category I

Address
  
6382 Kirchdorf in Tirol, Austria

The Fritz Pflaum Hut (German: Fritz-Pflaum-Hütte) is an Alpine club hut belonging to the Bayerland Section of the German Alpine Club, located in the Kaisergebirge mountains in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol.

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Location

The Fritz Pflaum Hut is an unmanned climbers' hut high above the Kaiserbachtal that lies in the Griesner Cirque (Griesner Kar) at the foot of the Mitterkaiser. It is located at a height of 1,865 metres (6,119 ft) and is thus the highest hut in the Wilder Kaiser. It is accessible with an Alpine Club key (AV-Schlüssel), but a guardian is only present for group bookings. The hut is a base for all summits around the Griesener Kar bowl as well as a starting point for the Kleinkaiser and Mitterkaiser peaks. It has 23 bedspaces.

History

The hut was named after the Alpinist, Fritz Pflaum, who was born in 1871. He was a keen nature lover and sportsman and loved the Wilder Kaiser. On 25 August 1908 he died during a difficult mountain tour on the Mönch. Relatives, friends and acquaintances donated 8,000 marks for the construction of the Fritz Pflaum Hut, which was opened on 25 August 1912, exactly four years after his death. Subsequent attempts to rename it the Griesnerkar Hut have not succeeded. An attempt to provide a basic managed service in the spring of 2007 failed because of a ban by the district commission.

Approaches

The normal approach to the hut is from the Griesner Alm in the Kaiserbach valley over a good path with numerous bends that takes 2 1⁄2 hours as a mountain hike and 2 1⁄4 hours as a ski tour (height difference: 870 metres (2,850 ft)).

The alternative is a rarely used climb from the Fischbachalm, also down in the Kaiserbach valley, via the pine oil distillery (Latschenölbrennerei) and the Kleiner Griesner Tor which takes 2 hours. This route is rather more challenging and requires sure-footedness. Some sections are protected by cable.

Crossings

  • Gaudeamus Hut (1,270 m (4,170 ft)), via the Kleines Törl, Gildensteig and Wildererkanzel, duration: 3 1⁄2 hours
  • Ackerl Hut (1,460 m (4,790 ft)), via the Kleines Törl, Gildensteig and Wilder Kaiser Path, duration: 3 hours
  • Ackerl Hut (1,460 m (4,790 ft)), via the Ackerlspitze and Maukspitze, challenging, duration: 5 hours
  • Grutten Hut (1,620 m (5,310 ft)), via the Kleines Törl, Gildensteig, Wilder Kaiser Path, Jubiläumssteig, duration: 4 hours
  • Stripsenjochhaus (1,577 m (5,174 ft)), via the Großes Griesner Tor, Hüttenweg, easy, duration: 2 1⁄2 hours

    • Ascents

    The following ascents are listed by the DAV:

  • Ackerlspitze (2,329 m (7,641 ft)), duration: 2 hours, medium difficulty
  • Lärcheck (2,124 m (6,969 ft)), duration: 2¼ hours, difficult
  • Mitterkaiser (2,007 m (6,585 ft)), duration: ½-1 hour, medium difficulty
  • Regalmspitze (2,249 m (7,379 ft)), duration: 2 hours, difficult
  • Maukspitze (2,231 m (7,320 ft)_, duration of crossing: 1 hour, difficult

    • References

    Fritz Pflaum Hut Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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