Drei Schwestern

Small and Middle Sister seen from the Great from

View of the Three Sisters in the Rhine Valley

The Three Sisters are three peaks of a mountain chain in the Rätikon, a mountain range of the Western Central Alps. The main peak, the Big Sisters, has a height of 2053 m above sea level. A., the middle sister Located north-east of it reaches a height of 2,048 meters and the north-eastern Little Sister is 2,034 meters high.

The three peaks mark the border between the Austrian province of Vorarlberg, community Frastanz, and Liechtenstein, community planks. Westward toward the Rhine Valley and north to Walgau have the three sisters by their northwest advanced position and its harsh rock character a large geographical dominance. Through a well-developed road system they are easily accessible and are often committed.

The first ascent was made probably by hunters, the main peak was beaten tourist on 10 June 1870 by the Scottish mountaineer John Sholto Douglass with a hunter Wieser from Frastanz.

Location

The chain of the Three Sisters is located in the extreme northwest of the Rätikons. In two kilometers as the crow lies northwest Liechtenstein village planks. The Feldkirch in Austria is well 5 km to the north. The three peaks form a extending in a north-south direction very pronounced ridge to the west, the Three Sisters group falls into the Alpine Rhine Valley, to the east into Saminatal. The only neighboring mountain of the Great sister is the Garsellikopf with 2,105 meters above sea level, south of Kuegrat ( 2123 m).

Bases and routes

The path of the first Steiger of 1870 resulted from the east from the Saminatal on the Garsellaalp by the eastern flank. Today, the area is accessible by an extensive road network, which consists of the Three Sisters trail, and the so-called Fürstensteig (named after the Prince of Liechtenstein ). As a base for a celebration of the sisters - ridge from northeast to south across the cable provided with fuses Three Sisters climbing the Feldkircherstrasse hut is at 1,200 meters altitude. A commission from the northwest can be undertaken by the Gafadurahütte ( 1,428 m ) above planks. In the south of the Alp Gaflei serves as a base for a celebration of the Fürstensteig to the sisters. The main summit can be reached via V- pure climbing routes in the UIAA difficulty levels II to. The north wall of the middle sister has difficulties to UIAA VI.

Landscape protection

The lying on the Vorarlberg region of the Three Sisters was recorded in 1976 in the list of protected landscape elements in Vorarlberg and is therefore under landscape protection.

Saga

The distinctive shape and the name of the mountain is also the subject of a legend that is told according to the region a little different. The Vorarlberg legend says were three sisters from Frastanz that rather than going out on Sunday Mass, went to the Beer Search in the mountains, transformed from a Venice punishment in stone. The legend says that Liechtenstein, which is, however, very similar in its basic features, the sisters came from Schaan and were greeted by Mary, mother of Jesus punished.

Sources and maps

  • Braendle, Hermann: Rätikon Reader. Hiking in the Rätikon. Bucher Hohenems Verlag Wien, 2009, ISBN 978-3902679154.
  • Manfred Hunziker: Ringelspitz / Arosa / Rätikon, Alpine Touring / Grison Alps, publisher of the SAC 2010, ISBN 978-3-85902-313-0
  • Guenther Flaig: Alpine Club leaders Rätikon, Bergverlag Rother, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3-7633-1098-3
  • Map of Switzerland 1:25,000, sheet 1136 Three Sisters
As the crow flies Feldkirch, Vorarlberg Samina (river) Kuhgrat National Maps of Switzerland
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