Vorderer Brochkogel

Front Brochkogel ( left background ), in the center of the Ötztal witness, the right of the wild tip

The Front Brochkogel is a 3565 meter high mountain in the white crest in the Ötztal Alps. It is located in the Austrian state of Tyrol and is the sixth- highest summits of the Oetztal Alps. In 1851 he was first celebrated in the context of military land surveying. 1861 or 1862 then was the first tourist ascent by the founder of the German Alpine Club, the priest Franz Senn with the student Eduard Neurauter, Johann and Johann Kuprian Karlinger that led Benedict Klotz. Over the year this first ascent of the Middle Broch Kogels there are different information. Franz Senn writes for his commission of the year 1861 in its tourist calendar 1869, Theodor Petersen is in the journal of the German and Austrian Alpine Club in 1862, however.

Location

The Front Brochkogel is about five miles as the crow flies west of Vent, about two kilometers west above the Breslauer Hütte. Adjacent peaks are in the north, separated by the Vernagtjoch (3400 m), the Rear Brochkogel with 3635 meters and in the north east tip of the wild with 3770 meters of altitude. To the south of Front Brochkogel falls to the southeast from the Rofental.

Bases and Ascension

The normal route, the easiest ascent, to the summit via the south ridge from the Breslauer Hütte, located at 2844 meters above sea level, from. The route initially from the hut in a westerly direction along the marked path No. 919 to the plate Ibach. Then it goes further north along the east bank over rubble to the exposed summit ridge in, according to the literature, easy climbing in difficulty UIAA I to the summit. Walking time is, according to the literature, about 2 ½ hours. Also from the Vernagthütte ( 2766 m) is the way in an easterly direction, first to commit to three hours.

Sources and maps

• Walter Klier, Alpine Club leaders Ötztal Alps, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7633-1123-8
• Alpine Club map 1:25,000, sheet 30/1 Ötztal Alps, Gurgl