Glockturm

View from Krummgampental on the bell tower

The bell tower is, according to BEV 3353, according to Alpine literature 3355 meter high mountain in the Ötztal Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol. He is the highest peak of running from south to north Glockturm comb. The mountain falls to the northwest, west and southwest steeply to the east, however, rather flat. He is a popular destination for hikers and backcountry skiers With its easy accessibility from the Kaunertal glacier road. The bell tower in 1853 as part of the military land surveying was first climbed by a Lieutenant Pöltinger, the first tourist commission undertook in 1870, Father Franz Senn from vent and the mountain guides Gabriel Spechtenhauser on the south side.

Location

The bell tower is located on the southern, higher end of the bell tower ridge, a chain of mountains of the Ötztal Alps. Of about 25 ° inclined glacier Rifflferner stretches along the eastern flank of the mountain up to a height of 3300 meters. To the west below the summit of the glacier melt to become an insignificant snowfield Glockturm addition. Neighboring mountains are in the north- east, separated by the location on 3146 meters above sea level Riffljoch that Rifflkarspitze with 3219 meters of altitude, in the southeast of the hawk ( 3092 m) and in the southwest of the 3146 meter high tower Matter.

Touristic development

As bases for an ascent of the north-west tower Glock situated on 2123 meters above sea level Hohenzollernhaus serve Radurschltal, southeast of sterling and the northeast located in the rear Kaunertal Gepatschhaus (1928 m ) on the Kaunertal Glacier Road. A well-defined normal route up the mountain there is not. The rise on the east side and the south-east ridge leads from Gepatschhaus in, according to the literature, five hours walk over boulders, moraines and boulders to the summit, some marked with cairns. A variant leads to slightly shorter time from the parking lot of the road (2400 m), about five kilometers by road southwest of the Gepatschhaus by the Krummgampental to the summit. A block not a difficult climb in difficulty UIAA I via the northeast ridge of the Glock tower. Since 1912 is in the west wall seriously climbed in 18 pitches, with a key point UIAA V and several places UIAA IV .

Sources and maps

  • Walter Klier: Alpine Club leaders Ötztal Alps mountain Verlag Rudolf Rother, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7633-1123-8
  • Alpine Club map 1:25,000, sheet 30/4, Ötztal Alps, mountains Nauderer
  • Mountain in Europe
  • Mountain in Tyrol
  • Three thousand
  • Mountain in the Alps
  • Ötztal Alps
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