Dreiländerspitze

Dreiländerspitze with Vermuntgletscher

The Dreiländerspitze is 3197 m above sea level. A. the highest mountain in the three countries Spitz group in the Silvretta, a mountain range in the central eastern Alps. Your name, the tip due to its location on the border of the three strains Romansh, Bavarians and Alemanni and their languages ​​. The state border between the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the Austrian provinces of Vorarlberg and Tyrol runs in east-west direction over the two peaks of the Dreiländerspitze. It sends to the west, north, east and southwest distinctive ridges, of which only the western ridge bears no limit. Because of their prominent position within the area of its easy accessibility from three surrounding shelters and the slight rise it is a popular vantage point. The first documented ascent culminated on July 14, 1870 from the German Alpinist Theodor Petersen from Frankfurt along with the village teacher and a boy from Guarda from the southern Val Tuoi ( Tuoi valley).

Location

The three countries Spitz Group is located in the center of the Silvretta is a mountain group ( 2797 m) in the west to Urezzasjoch ( 2906 m) ranges from Vermunt the east. Their outstanding peaks are in addition to the Dreiländerspitze from west of view of Piz Mon with 2982 meters, the 3136 meters high Piz Jeremiah. East of the Dreiländerspitze the Front Jamspitze with 3178 meters, separated by the Jamjoch raise situated on 3078 meters in height, the rear Jamspitze with 3156 meters. To the north are separated by the lower ( 2913 m) and Upper Oschsenscharte ( 2977 m), the 3057 meter high ox head and north of the Tyrolean saddle ( 2935 m) of the Tyrolean head with 3103 meters of altitude. To the south rise the Piz Tuoi ( 3084 m) and the 3065 meters high Piz Urezzas from the comb. About the Dreiländerspitze the Rhine-Danube watershed runs for the rivers Ill and Inn. The next settlements are the approximately 14 line kilometers away Galtür and Guarda, about 9 kilometers to the south to the north in Unterengadintal.

Development and tourism

Theodor Petersen and his two companions were not the first in 1870 at the peak of Dreiländerspitze, they found a so-called signal bar that had been placed on the occasion of the national survey in the 1850s there. Petersen's route led from the south Tuoi valley up towards Vermunt. There they turned right ( east ) over the Vermunt Glacier to the west ridge and reached, partly laboriously climbing, the western, lower, peak of the peak. The descent led her back to Vermuntgletscher and further west on Piz Buin - north ridge passing down through the Silvretta glacier to the then existing Silvrettahütte 2341 meters. The eastern, somewhat higher and extremely jagged peaks of the Dreiländerspitze reached Blezinger C. and C. Stedefeld from Prague in August 1882.

Today's normal route (easiest ascent) no longer follows the route of Petersen and his companions. As a base for the ascent of the west face and upper west ridge since 1896, serves the northwest located in Wiesbaden cottage on 2443 meters above sea level. The path leads south-west up to the Upper Ochsenscharte and on the northwest flank and upper west ridge in a walking time, according to the literature, about three hours to the summit. This occasional snowfield are committed. The climbing sections have the difficulty I UIAA. Also from the south Tuoihütte (2250 m), or Jamtalhütte, 2165 m, to the northeast, there are increases, partly as a wedding tour, for Dreiländerspitze.

Sources and maps

• Guenther Flaig: Alpine Club leaders Silvretta, Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7633-1097-5
• Alpine Club map 1:25,000, sheet 26, Silvrettagruppe