Coburger Hut
mountain hut
The Coburger Hut (German: Coburger Hütte) is an Alpine hut owned by the Coburg Branch of the German Alpine Club. It is located in the Mieming Range in the Austrian state of Tyrol and lies only a few metres in height above the lake of Drachensee. The accommodation is generally open from June to early October and there is a winter room.
History
The construction of the hut was originally proposed by the Munich alpinist, Ferdinand Kilger, in 1890. This was taken up in 1895 by the German Alpine Club's Coburg branch, established in 1879. In 1901 the first hut was completed and, in the years that followed, it was given a water connexion (the "drinking quality water" was drawn from the Grünsteinsee, a lake which has now dried out), an electrical generator and, in 1908, a telephone line.
After the First World War the building was extended for the first time and, in 1962, the material ropeway was built. For the 75th anniversary of the hut a new toilet block was built. Other renovation and building measures followed in the 1980s, after the responsible district author in Imst declared the building as unsound and a fire risk. In the 1990s, electricity and water supplies and drainage and waste were brought up to new environmental standards.
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