Gross Spannort

Gross Spannort ( 3'198 m above sea level. M. ) is a mountain in the Urner Alps.

Location and Access

The summit of the Great Spannort is located on the high ridge which forms the watershed between the valley of Engelberg Aa and the Reuss.

In the immediate neighborhood, less than a kilometer in direction southsouthwest, is the 3'140 m high chli Spannort. Less than two kilometers to the north is located behind Castle, the 3'133 m high main peak of the Schlossberg.

From the Engelberg Herrenrütialp you can reach the following on a simple, highly frequented hiking path, the path of the Engelberg Aa, the Alp Stäfeli with their farmed in the summer Alpgaststätte. The other way is via the Spannorthütte, which is located in the gap between Schlossberg Schlossberg and Gross Spannort. From there up to the top of the path is a high alpine route that can only be accomplished with a mountain guide or relevant experience. ( Mountaineering difficulty WS, climbing difficulty II).

Geology

The strikingly jagged mountain consists of limestone and brown Jura on a base of gneiss.

History

The origin of the name is unclear. Another possibility is derivation from Middle High German span = dispute, but also in the sense of tension wood chip is used as interpretation into question. The oldest known written mention of the mountain and the neighboring chli Spannort, under the name of large and small Spaneter, dates from the year 1708.

1867 is the Big Spannort by the British John Sowerby, Waldemar Mansell, FE Thomphson and Robert Spankie, led by Uri mountain guides Josemaria Tresch - Exer and Ambros Zgraggen, climbed for the first time. The group reached the summit from the south.

In August 1928 for the first time achieved a roped about the difficult north face of the peak. It consists of Werner ringer, Paul Bootz, Mathis Margadant and Fitz Bieri.

On the night of December 28, 1961, comes on chli Spannort to a rock fall. More than a million m³ of rock crashes into the terrain below Alp Stäfeli. Due to the air pressure itself is a few hundred meters high destroyed on the hillside opposite side vegetation.