Walser Hammerspitze

Walser hammer tip from the pulpit wall

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The Walser Hammerspitze (formerly in Oberstdorf parlance Schüsser and Kleinwalsertaler parlance Hammerspitze ) is a 2170 m high mountain peaks of the Alps sheep group in the Allgäu Alps.

Location

The mountain is located between the Oberstdorf hammer tip ( 2260 m) to the southwest and the pulpit wall in the northwest. About the Summit is the boundary between Germany and Austria. The prominence of the Walser hammer tip is at least 30 meters, its dominance 700 meters, in each case the high Mitre peak ( 2251 m) mountain is reference.

Naming

Due to the various nominations in the Kleinwalsertal in the Northeast and the Oberstdorf page in the east, the name situation of the mountains mentioned previously hammer tip and Schüsser presented complicated dar. why was carried out in July 2013 an official renaming of the mountains in order to improve the situation, for example, for emergency calls. Walser hammer tip and from the German hammer tip and the Austrian Schüsser the Oberstdorf hammer tip was from the German and Austrian Schüsser hammer tip.

In the official German and Austrian card works, the two mountains were each named vice versa. In the Bavarian map the combination hammer tip was ( 2260 m) and Schüsser ( 2170 m), in the Austrian map thus: Schüsser ( 2259 m) and hammer tip ( 2170m ).

In the revised boundary description of 1844 states: "against the sailor ... on the sailor, is which called on the Vorarlberg side Hammerspitz " While the term hammer is an expression of Walser German and as meaning, rock ' has is the root word Schisser the Allgäuerischen entstammend. It means the stones throwing down ' and, for example, in the boatman Kar in Warmatsgund on the German side used. However, " sailor " in the boundary description is used for the whole mountain ridge between the pulpit wall and Fiderepass. Thaddeus Steiner thought that was perhaps a distinction on the Austrian side earlier between the hammer head, so the Schüsser, and the hammer tips.

Ascent

The Walser Hammerspitze can be climbed from three directions. The easiest ascent leads from the Kleinwalsertal by the Wildental on the Alpe When the summit. Similarly, the mountain from the north over the pulpit and from the south wall can be achieved via the high Gehrenspitze.