Glockenkarkopf

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The Klockerkarkopf (formerly erroneously written Glockenkarkopf, Italian Vetta d' Italia ) is a 2,911 m above sea level. A. high mountain in the Reichenspitzgruppe, a group of mountains in the Zillertal Alps. It lies on the border between the Austrian province of Salzburg and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

Location

The Klockerkarkopf lies in the border ridge line from the Krimml Tauern in the west to the east Birnlücke. To the west of the summit of the Tauern capita ( 2874 m above sea level. A. ) and southwest of higher Pfaff cutting head ( 2918 m ), from which emphasizes the Pfaff cutting to the south. This overcomes the Lusatian way to the devil staircase.

History

Was first climbed the Klockerkarkopf on July 10, 1895 exceeded from the north by the first editor of the Nietzsche Archive Fritz Koegel and mountain guide, Franz Hofer.

The Italian nationalist, irredentist and later fascist Ettore Tolomei ascended the mountain on July 16, 1904, together with his brother Ferruccio Tolomei and Elvira and Ilda Tomasi, accompanied by a mountain guide from Franz Gasser Prettau. Tolomei described himself knowingly false as first ascent of the supposedly most northern point of South Tyrol and called him " Vetta d' Italia " ( German: " tip of Italy " ), to provide the territorial claims of Italy to Austria- Hungary belonging to South Tyrol. However, the Klockerkarkopf is not the northernmost point of the drainage basin of the Mediterranean, and thus not the " Vetta d' Italia ". The northern tip of Italy is rather the lying very close to Western Zwillingsköpfl (Italian: Monte Gemello 2841 m above sea level. A. ).

In Italian maps Tolomei name of the mountain has already been used since 1905. Since the Treaty of St. Germain 1919 Klockerkarkopf and the western Zwillingsköpfl form the northernmost point of South Tyrol. In South Tyrol, the view is widespread, the name " Vetta d' Italia " was the geography and history of Europe, very little versed U.S. President Woodrow Wilson convinced of the legitimacy of the Brenner border.

Names discussion

The term " Vetta d' Italia " encountered in the German-speaking population of South Tyrol largely rejected.

Against the alternative name variant " Glockenkarkopf " contact a local place-name researchers that Klockerkarkopf representing the older and more correct term, as it is named after a col on the north side of the mountain, which belonged to the estate, " Klocker " on the " Klockeralm " in Krimml and nothing have to do with " bells ".

Sources and maps

• Heinrich Klier, Walter Klier: Alpine Club leaders Zillertal Alps, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7633-1269-2
• Hans Paul Menara: South Tyrolean summit hikes. Athesiadruck, Bolzano 2001, ISBN 88-8266-013-3
• Alpine Club map 1:25,000, sheet 35/3, Zillertal Alps, eastern sheet
• Alpine guides Tures - Ahrntal, Werner Beikircher and Karl Hellweger, pp. 205f Athesiadruck, Bolzano 1981.
• The " first ascent " of the Glockenkarkopfes by Tolomei in South Tyrol in words and pictures, II/1960, J. Kaser