Hochgolling

East side. Hochgolling center ( 2862 m ), left Tramörtenscharte ( 2,442 m ) and right Rottor (around 2270 m). The focus of the Gralatisee (around 1810 m).

Hochgolling north wall in spring

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The Hochgolling is a mountain of the Alps on the border between Salzburg Lungau and Styria. With a height of 2862 m above sea level. A. it is the highest mountain in the Schladming Tauern and the entire Lower Tauern. Showpiece of the ever so steep and dominated by dark rock mountain is its approximately 1000 m high north wall.

Name

The name " Golling " can be attributed to the Slavic golъ ( bald).

Location

The Northwest ridge of Hochgolling descends into the sharp Gollingscharte ( 2326 m) and connects the Hochgolling with the Zwerfenberg ( 2642 m) and Misery Mountain ( 2672 m). The northeast ridge falls away into the Rottor (about 2270 m) and moves on through the Great Gangl ( 2602 m ) for gripping mountain ( 2618 m). To the south of the Hochgolling sends a powerful side comb: The South accuses ridge on the Tramörtenscharte ( 2442 m) to the white level ( 2659 m) and on to the shapely Kasereck ( 2740 m). This separates the Lessachtal with the Lessachwinkel the east by Göriach with the Göriachwinkel in the West.

Geology

The Hochgolling has a base of paragneisses, which merges in 2400-2500 meters above sea level in a platy breaking feldspar around 100 meters thick amphibolite. The western edge is also traversed between 2200 to 2400 meters above sea level from a Amphibolitzug. The summit area consists of lighter fine-grained orthogneisses and Phylloniten.

Touristic development

The first ascent of Hochgolling in 1791 held the Tamsweg doctor and chronicler Joseph Alois Vogt with the brief words " On August 8, has been boarded by several Damsweegern the Hochgailling " in his diary. This was first published in 1853 by Ignaz von Kürsinger in his Lungauer Chronicle. 1811 built Bavarian surveyors at the summit about a four -meter-high stone pyramid that they bituminous paint on the Salzburg side. Particular attention was the first ascent of the tourist Hochgolling by Archduke Johann August 28, 1817. Purpose the way, among other things by the hunter Jakob Buchsteiner ( first ascent of Torstein ) was made possible pervious and taken steps in the final narrow ridge.

The Hochgolling north face descent of Joseph Borde on 2 September 1897. September 20, 1921, increased Franz Herdlicka and companions was first celebrated in the north wall in its central part ( Tunerbergsteigerweg, III). Two years later, they were followed on August 4, 1923 Kurt Tiny and Richard Wagner to even more directly ( Tiny Wagner Lead, IV) - only seven weeks before her fatal crash in the Lugauer - west wall.

Increases

The committed by Archduke Johann increase ( Classic Route ) mostly runs through the northwest flank and today forms the normal route of the Gollingscharte to the summit (I). The experienced hikers lends itself to the commission of the labeled Nordwestgrats (II ) an attractive alternative in the final climb. Access steps to Gollingscharte are marked by the Styrian Untertal and from Salzburg Göriach. Possible hut bases are the Styrian Gollinghütte ( 1641 m), respectively, the Salzburg Landawirseehütte (1985 m).