Johannisberg (High Tauern)

Johannisberg seen from the Kaiser- Franz- Josef - height of

The Johannisberg seen from Eiskögele (southwest) from

Environment of the Grossglockner with Johannisbergbdep2

The Johannisberg, formerly called Keeserkopf and Herzoghut, is a 3,453 meter high mountain in the Glockner Group in the Middle Tauern main ridge, a mountain range in the Austrian Central Alps. The mountain lies on the border between the Austrian provinces of Salzburg and Carinthia. It received its present name in honor of Archduke Johann of Austria by the Regensburger botanist David Heinrich Hoppe 1832, on the occasion of the failed attempt, further than to penetrate Riffltor ( 3094 m) in the area. The Johannisberg has seen from the east, a firnbedeckte dome shape, its west side consists of a powerful, 450 -meter-high and 50 ° sloping western wall. To the north- west and southwest it sends long distinctive ridges. Due to its easy accessibility of the mountain is a popular destination for hikers and climbers.

Climbing history

The first attempt to climb the Johannesberg, fell in 1832, when Archduke Johann was staying in Heiligenblut and tried unsuccessfully over the Pasterze, Austria's biggest glacier, northeast shortly exceed the Riffltor ( 3094 m) below the Johannisberg. A first perhaps successful attempt to conquer the mountain took place on 11 September 1844. Anton von Ruthner reported, a forester, a curate, a tax collector and a gentleman unknown object had from the Johannishütte opened ( at today Hofmann hut) to 5 U.45, and the Company had on their journey to the most beautiful serene sky, taught the same left of the Lower Castle hutch over and at the foot of Johannisberg arrived to the right side of the same, where they him to he eastern, sharp rising edge at 10 and boarded. Ruthner quoted from the destroyed in a fire Glockner book. The names of the participants are not recorded, but the group was allegedly led by George Bäuerle from Heiligenblut. However, at that time also climbs counted as successful if they did not lead to the summit altogether. By 1864 this climb has been questioned, because in that year the summit was not to achieve wider because of snow crevasses. The first authentic climb with summit contact took place on 28 August 1859. Anton von Ruthner increased with P. Kronegger ( called Plattl ) from Heiligenblut and Josef Schweighofer ( called Röderer ) from Fusch on the southeast ridge to the peak.

Location

The Johannisberg is located northwest above the so-called Pasterzen soil, a kind of glacial plateau, forming the accumulation area of the Pasterze and extends up to an altitude of 3450 meters above sea level. West of the mountain is the upper portion of Ödenwinklkees. Adjacent Mountains are in the course of Südwestgrates the 3261 meter high Ödenwinkel chart head and separated by the Lower Ödenwinkel Charter ( 3160 m), the Eiskögele with 3426 meters of altitude. In the burr profile to the northwest is separated by the Upper Ödenwinkel Charter, located at 3228 meters altitude, 3338 meters high Riffl. In about 19 kilometers north of the straight line Salzburgische Kaprun is located in the Pinzgau, and nearly 13 km to the south in East Tyrol's Kals Valley, Kals am Grossglockner.

Bases and routes

The way the group around Anton von Ruthner in 1859 led by Winkl Heiligenblut up on the Pasterze to the Lower Ödenwinkel lip and then over the southeast ridge to the summit. From Ruth agent report: In terrible walls here crashes the edge of the Pasterze against the Ödenwinkelkees [ ... ]. Also you had to deal with snow and crevasses, so only after seven hours of peak has been reached. The way back then led by a good two hours to then still existing Johannishütte, a stone shelter, today we would say bivouac, whose construction was completed in 1835 commissioned by Archduke Johann after his failure at the Pasterze in order. Today's normal route leads from the built in 1910 Oberwalderhütte at 2972 meters above sea level, above the upper Pasterzen bottom and the south-east at a Firnkante along the top. The trail can be walked only as high tour with proper equipment and experience. Walking time is, according to the literature, about 3 hours. Also on the other ridges and flanks lead combined ice - rock routes, in sometimes difficult climbing in the UIAA grades I to III and a Eisneigung to 50 °.

Sources and maps

• Willi End: Alpine Club leaders Glocknergruppe, Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7633-1266-8
• Eduard Richter: The development of the Eastern Alps, III. Band, publisher of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, Berlin 1894
• Alpine Club map 1:25,000, sheet 40, Glocknergruppe