Rojacher Hütte
The place
Rojacher Hütte: An Authentic High-Mountain Experience The Rojacher Hütte is a Category I hut belonging to the Rauris section of the Austrian Alpine Association. Nestled in the Goldberg mountain group, at an elevation of 2718 meters, it lies about 1 km in a straight line southeast of the summit of the Hoher Sonnblick (3105 m) or the Zittelhaus. History Name: Ignaz Rojacher (1844–1891), an industrialist from Rauris. Construction: Built in 1898-1899 by his friend, the Bohemian agricultural expert Wilhelm Ritter von Arlt, in honor of Rojacher. Improvements: Extension towards the rock face in 1992, completed and inaugurated on July 16, 1994. Owned by the Rauris section of the Austrian Alpine Association since 1984. Access By car: from Rauris to "Bodenhaus", then toll road to the "Lenzanger" parking lot. In summer: by postal bus 640 from Zell am See via Taxenbach, Rauris and Bucheben to Kolm-Saigurn. Approach From the "Lenzanger" parking lot via the Kolm-Saigurn nature-friends' house (1598 m), passing the Neubau nature-friends' house (2175 m), about 3 hours' walk. Connections to Neighboring Huts Starting point of the Austrian long-distance Zentralalpenweg trail, a 1200 km route from Hainburg to Feldkirch. Zittelhaus (3105 m), 1½ hours' walk. Duisburger Hütte (2572 m), 3 hours' walk. Niedersachsenhaus (2471 m), 3 hours' walk. Neubau nature-friends' house (2175 m), 1¼ hours' walk. Ascents Hoher Sonnblick (3105 m) in 1 to 1½ hours (marked route from the east to the Hoher Sonnblick or to the Zittelhaus). Alteck (2942 m) in 2 to 2½ hours (with glacier crossing). Literature and Maps Liselotte Buchenauer, Peter Holl: Ankogel- und Goldberggruppe. Alpine guide, Zentralalpen series. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7633-1247-1. Gerhart Moser (ed.): Sonnblick. (Scale 1:25,000). Alpine club map, sheet 42. Austrian Alpine Association, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-928777-77-7.
