Featured hut by Allan Hartley

Siegerlandhütte 2710m. Ötztaler Alpen

Owner: DAV Sektion Siegerland

Location: Situated at the foot to the Sonklarspitze southwest spur on a rocky platform overlooking the long Windachtal valley.

Open: Early July to end September.

Facilities: 28 beds / 21 Matratzenlager / 6 beds in winter room. Good restaurant and toilet facilities. Boot room. Token operated showers.

Valley and Hut Connections: From Ötztal Bahnhof by bus to Sölden then 5h + to hut. Bus from Sölden to Fiegl's Gasthaus, then 3h on foot. Hildesheimer Hütte 3hr, M4llerhütte 5h, Becherhaus 6h, Schneeburgerhüte 4h, Brunnenkogelhaus 5h, Sulzenauhüte 5h, Hochstubaihütte 4h.

Excursions: Zuckerhütl (3507) 4h, Sonklarspitze (3463) 3h, Schrakogel (3135) 4h, Schwarzwandspitze (3353) 2.5h, Geiákogel (3129) 3h, Sonklarspitze (3463) 3h, Schwarzwandspitze (3353) 2.5h,

Address: Hr Raimund Gritsch. Siegerlandhütte 203, A6450 Sölden, Ötztal, Austria

Telephone: 0043 (0) 664 241 4040 ( mobile or text). 00 43 (0)664 866 7935 (summer only)

Email: office@siegerlandhuette.com

Web Site: www.siegerlandhuette.com

Maps: ÖAV 31/1 Stubaier Alpen, Hochstubai. Freytag & Berndt BL WKS 8, BEV map BL 173

Named after the north German town of Siegen in Westphalia, this is a fine robust stone building whose gable end is emphasised by large circular buttresses and brightly coloured window shutters. It occupies a commanding position, looking down the 15km long Windachtal valley and the peaks of the Ötztal.

The hut was built in 1928-29 to replace the original hut in the Südtirol, the Marburg-Siegener Hut, which was annexed to Italy along with 72 other D&OeAV huts at the Treaty of St Germain in 1919, as war reparations to Italy at the end of WW1. Since that time [1930] the hut has remained virtually unchanged apart from the addition of modern plumbing and electricity and general refurbishment of the kitchen, bedrooms and toilet facilities. The Winter Room complex was added in 2012 and is particularly spacious.

The dining room is delightful, being warm and pleasant in the Gemütlichkeit tradition. Most visitors will relish sitting in its bay windows enjoying a meal and the superb view to the Ötztal. If there was a competition among huts, the Siegerland would be a worthy competitor as one of the most charming and colourful huts in the whole of the Stubai Alps.

Source: Trekking in the Stubai Alps by Allan Hartley published by Cicerone Press Ltd.

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