Schijenflue

The Scheienfluh, also called Schijenflue, is a 2,627 m according to Austrian data, according to Swiss 2,625 m high mountain in the Rätikon, a mountain range of the Western Central Alps.

The summit lies exactly on the border between the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, and the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The mountain is part of the Sulzfluhgruppe. In the east and north-east it falls into gently sloping, traversed by carts walls and rocks down to Tilisunaalpe in the upper Gampadelstal. To the west, however, the Scheienfluh has impressive vertical rock walls that have to Graubündner Partnun towards a large geographical dominance. Through this west walls of the mountain gets its mountaineering importance.

Geologically has a tectonic ceiling Riffkalkgestein pushed from the northeast in the alpidischen orogeny over the ground, which gave the Scheienfluh and also the white plate shape. Because of the classic alpine routes through the west walls and ease of Besteigbarkeit from the northeast, which is a Scheienfluh of climbers and hikers often visited mountain.

Environment

The mountain is located about eight kilometers in a straight line south of the village of Tschagguns in the Montafon Valley in Vorarlberg and about 6 km northeast of the Grisons St.Antönien. To the east the Scheienfluh falls down to Tilisunaalpe, westward to Partnunsee at 1,860 meters above sea level. To the north and south of the mountain sends distinctive ridges. Adjacent Mountains are in the north, the 2,630 -meter-high white plate, also called Wiss plate and in the southeast, separated by the harrows Plass Pass to 2,345 meters, the Sarotlaspitze with 2,564 meters altitude. The Sulzfluh is two and a half kilometers east-northeast across the Patnuntals. Beyond the Vorarlberg Tilisunaalpe are the Platinaköpfe in an easterly direction.

Bases and routes

Information on a first ascent of the Scheienfluh from the mid-19th century, the second ( tourist ) epoch of Alpine development, are not available in the literature. 1891 Scheienfluh was, however, climbed from a " Eduard Imhof and companions " on the south ridge of Partnun from. Only since the mid- 1950s, climbers ventured through the vertical west wall routes in the then usual technical climbing. The normal route to the Scheienfluh now leads from the northern white plate as a tightrope over a deep-cut notch to the summit according to the literature in easy climbing in difficulty UIAA I to the summit. As the base Tilisunahütte is 2,208 meters. The walk takes about two hours. The climbing routes in the west wall on the other hand have when free climbing, difficulty to UIAA VII on. Base for the west wall of the Scheienfluh is Partnun. At the foot of Schijenfluh - west wall is the Schijenzahn ( 2,372 meters) - a 90 meter high rock pinnacle ( difficulty levels: Normal Route IV, northeast wall V, VI South Rim ). The long hiking trail Prättigauer runs under the walls of the West Schijenflue.

Gruobenpass, transition west of Scheienfluh

Plass Harrows Pass, east of the transition Scheienfluh

Partnun with Scheienfluh - west wall and vorgelagertem Schijenzahn ( above the middle cottage)

View from the Scheienfluh on Sulzfluh (left ) and white plate, below the Partnunsee

Sources and maps

  • Manfred Hunziker: Ringelspitz / Arosa / Rätikon, Alpine Touring / Grison Alps, publisher of the SAC 2010, ISBN 978-3-85902-313-0, p 653
  • Guenther Flaig: Alpine Club leaders Rätikon, Bergverlag Rother Munich, 1989, ISBN 3-7633-1098-3
  • Alexander Tollmann: Geology of Austria, Volume I - The Central Alps, Vienna: F. Deuticke, 1977
  • Map of Switzerland 1:25,000, sheet 1157, Sulzfluh

Credentials

  • Mountain in Europe
  • Mountain in Vorarlberg
  • Mountain in the canton of Graubünden
  • Zweitausender
  • Mountain in the Alps
  • Rätikon
  • St.Antönien
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