Featured hut by Allan Hartley

Bremer Hütte 2413m, Stubai Alps

Owner: DAV Sektion Bremen

Location: Situated on the Mitteregg Plateau with a commanding view of Gschnitztal valley plus the mountains of the Schneespitze and Pflerscher Hochjoch mirrored on the surface of the loch in front of the hut.

Open: End June to end September

Facilities: 23 beds / 50 Matratzenlager / 12 Notlager (not locked): Category 1
Good restaurant facilities but limited bathroom facilities that can be cramped when the hut is full. Showers and drying room. Rucksack transfer to and from the Innsbrucker Hut available. Free wifi. Just above Laponesalm there is a Materialseilbahn with a telephone to the hut: €6 per piece.

Valley and Hut Connections: Rail to Steinach am Brenner, then post bus (Nr 4146) via Gschnitz to Feuerstein at the head of the Gschnitztal valley. Parking possible here. Then 3-4h to hut (1231m ascent). Innsbrucker Hütte 7h, Nurnberger Hütte 3-4h. Austrian Tribulaunhütte 7h, Magdeburger Hütte 7h. Innere Wetterspitze (3053m) 3h, Östlicher Feuerstein (3267m) 4h, Westliche Feuerstein (3245m) 4h+, Schafkampspitze (3016m) 4h.

Address: Stefanie und Christian Höllrigl, Bremer Hüütte, Gschnitz 41, A-6150 Gschnitz, Austria

Telephone: Hut +43 720 270 660 or +49 421 4089 5460; warden +43 664 3047 360

Email: buchungen@bremerhuette.at

Web Site: www.bremerhuette.at

Maps: AV 31/1 Hochstubai and 31/3 Stubaier Alpen, Brennerberge

Named after the north German city of Bremen, the Bremer was built in 1897 in a true mountain situation with wall to wall mountains close to what remains of the Simming Ferner and the north faces of the Schneespitze and Pflerscher Hochjoch, sadly no longer the popular alpine climbs they used to be.

The hut is clad in timber shingles, with the roof lashed down at each corner as a reminder that the original roof was lost in a fierce storm in the early nineteen sixties. The creaking of timbers and warmth of the newly refurbished Gaststube create a friendly environment.

More recently the hut was extended in 2005 due to the growing popularity of the Stubai Rucksack Route, the Stubaier Höhenweg and the Gschnitztaler Rundtour, plus the re-established route across the Bremer Scharte into Italy and the Süd Tirol to Magdeburger Hütte. Be sure to make a reservation before visiting to avoid sleeping in the Notlager!

Source: Trekking in the Stubai Alps by Allan Hartley, Cicerone Press

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