The renovation is finished: numerous guests went up to the opening ceremony of the “new” Tölzer Hütte on Saturday.
You were rewarded with a great panoramic view.
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s - Saturday was a day out of a picture book in the Alps: clear skies and the best view up to the first snow-covered pinnacles of the Karwendel.
The weather couldn't have been better when the Tölz section of the Alpine Club inaugurated the renovation of their Tölzer Hut at 1830 meters on the Schafreuter.
75 invited guests, including 14 members of the Tölzer Stadtkapelle and the alpine farmers from the neighborhood, climbed the 900 meters of altitude over the sun-warmed southern flank from the valley to celebrate the successful work with the Alpine Club.
Above all, the panoramic balcony in an incomparable location was met with great admiration.
Ludwig Wucherpfennig, member of the presidium of the German Alpine Club, praised the “excellent approach” in this 1.45 million euro building project: The Tölzer section had taken the courageous decision not to continue to improve the 100-year-old alpine lodging house bit by bit, but to undertake a comprehensive general renovation.
“The hut is unrecognizable,” said Wucherpfennig with appreciation.
Big thanks to all craftsmen, helpers and donors
Section chairman Benedikt Hirschmann was delighted with the “beautiful new hut” and thanked the planners and all craftsmen, volunteers and donors for the success of the project. The landlords Alexander and Sylvia Schrempf also contributed to this, who kept the business going in this extraordinarily difficult construction site, corona and bad weather season. Site manager Wolfgang Buchner “managed the smooth renovation and construction process wonderfully”.
Hüttenwart Max Nichtl praised the "huge commitment of all those involved" and also thanked the board and the office: "We were a great team." The craftsmen involved would often have said to him: "We have never experienced such cohesion as on this unique construction site above on the mountain. "Nichtl also remembered the chairman of the AV section Tölz, Paul Schenk, who died too early:" It was his merit that we tackled this project. "
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Happy about the successful general renovation (from left): District Administrator Josef Niedermaier, DAV presidium member Ludwig Wucherpfennig, board member Martin Maier, mayor Ingo Mehner (Bad Tölz), Father Thomas Abrell, site manager Wolfgang Buchner, mayor Stefan Fadinger (Gaißach), Hüttenwart Max Nichtl and board member Benedikt Hirschmann.
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District Administrator Josef Niedermaier praised the social importance and the courage of the Alpine Club, whose difficult balancing act consists in "reconciling nature conservation for our home, people's needs for relaxation and difficult structural challenges such as fire protection".
City of Tölz took over the guarantee
The mayor of Tölz, Ingo Mehner, was one of the well-wishers.
He made it clear why the city was happy to take on a bank guarantee for the building project in Tyrol: "What the Alpine Association does here is for people's relaxation and environmental education and comes back as a benefit for the city and its citizens." As a guarantee, the Alpine Association was able to take advantage of a particularly inexpensive savings bank loan.
The mayor of Gaißach, Stefan Fadinger, who often worked as a shepherd in the area, congratulated the Alpine Association on behalf of the alpine people and asked for applause for the hosts.
Christian Schindler presented a donation check on behalf of the Sparkasse.
Father comes specially from Osnabrück
Finally, Franciscan Father Thomas Abrell asked for the church's blessing for the hut and all the people who come and go there.
He has been coming to the mountain mass every year since 2002.
At first he still worked in the Tölz Franciscan monastery, but for many years he has been traveling with loyal ties especially from Osnabrück, 700 kilometers away.
The members of the Tölzer Stadtkapelle, who climb up to the Tölzer Hütte every year to musically frame the mountain mass, played festive works on Saturday for the inauguration.
14 musicians had come to the mountain.
This time they stayed for two days in order to help organize the mass on Sunday after the inauguration ceremony.
(Rainer Bannier)
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