Großes Wiesbachhorn

Large Wiesbachhorn

The Great Wiesbachhorn is located in the province of Salzburg in Austria and is at an altitude of 3564 m above sea level. A. the third highest peak in the Glockner group. The completely detached Firndom forms the main peak of Fuscher / Kaprun ridge and is often seen in literature as a rival to the Grossglockner alpine climbing. The deep crashing against the east and southeast has with 2,418 m the greatest height difference between valley and peak in the Eastern Alps. From alpine climbing importance was the first ascent of the Northwest Face on July 15, 1924 Franz Riegele and Willo Welzenbach. They used for locomotion for the first time Eisnägel that were later developed into ice screws. The north-west wall was one of the classic ice walls of the Eastern Alps; now the ice has melted off, however.

Location

The Great Wiesbachhorn is almost completely surrounded by glaciers. To the north is the Wielingerkees, in the north- east the Sandbodenkees flows east down to the sandy soil and further into the Fuscher Ache. To the south lies the Teufelsmühlkees and to the west the Kaindlkees. Significant neighboring mountains are in the north, separated by the location on 3211 m height sandy bottom lip, the little Wiesbachhorn with a height of 3283 m. In the southwest, beyond the 3265 m high on Wielingerscharte between Kaindlkees and Teufelsmühlkees, viola, the two heads ( 3413 m and 3401 m). To the west the land drops down to the reservoir Mooserboden, to the east into Fusch valley. The nearest major settlement is the village of Fusch am Grossglockner road located about 10 kilometers in a straight line in a northerly direction.

Rises

The rare today committed original way of Fuscher peasants end of the 18th century led by Ferleiten in 3 ½ hours on the Schwarzenberghütte and from there in 4 hours at the Viola heads over to the top of the horn. Today's starting point for an ascent is the Heinrich- Schwaiger -Haus. From there, the normal route through the Upper Fochezkopf and Kaindlgrat leads to the summit in about 3 hours. In the central part of the way there is a 35 ° inclined Firnschneide, the rock outcrops have difficulty UIAA I. The classic routes through the 500 -meter-high north-western wall require climbing skills in the ice up to 60 ° tilt.

Large Wiesbachhorn

From the summit of the Great Wiesbach horn there are about 2,400 meters to the valley of the Fuscher Ache

Sources and maps

• Willi End: Alpine Club leaders Glocknergruppe. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7633-1266-8.
• Alpine Club map 1:25,000, sheet 40, Glockner group.