The Jochköpfl is a mountain, , on the ''Windach-Brunnenkogel-Kamm'', a subgroup of the
Stubai Alps in Austria.
Geography
Name and location
The Jochköpfl is named after the col of
Timmelsjoch and lies almost exactly on the border between the Austrian federal state of
Tyrol and the autonomous Italian province of Bolzano-
South Tyrol. The border runs about 150 metres east of the
bench-mark at the summit.
A prominent ridge heads south for a good kilometre from the summit. To the southwest a 700-metre-long
arête ends at the notch of the ''Rötenkarscharte'' at 2,832 metres.
Surrounding area
The Jochköpfl lies about 2½ kilometres north-northeast of the Timmelsjoch (2,478 m) and around 6 km
as the crow flies northwest of ''St. Martin am
Schneeberg'', South Tyrol. To the west and north of the mountain,
glaciers reach a height of 3,050 metres. To the north is the ''Kitzkampferner'' glacier and, to the west, the more steeply inclined ''Rötenkarferner'', which has shrunk significantly due to
global warming. Neighbouring peaks are the 3,135-metre-high ''Schrakogel'' to the northwest, which is separated by a notch at 3,068 metres; the 3,060-metre-high ''Vordere Kitzkogel'' on the northeast
arête; and the ''Graslahnerspitze'' at 2,970 metres above
sea level along the south arête, which is interrupted by two unimposing, intermediate tops, the ''Timmelsjochberg'' and ''Hochwarte''. The southwest ridge runs towards the Timmelstal valley down into the ''Untere Wannenkar''
cirque
A (; from the Latin word ') is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic , meaning a pot or cauldron) and (; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform ...
.
First ascent
The Jochköpfl was probably
first ascended by
chamois
The chamois (''Rupicapra rupicapra'') or Alpine chamois is a species of goat-antelope native to mountains in Europe, from west to east, including the Alps, the Dinarides, the Tatra and the Carpathian Mountains, the Balkan Mountains, the Ril ...
hunters and state survey staff during the 1850s. There are no records of ascents purely for pleasure dating to the 19th century. However, on 22 August 1890,
Ludwig Purtscheller undertook a crossing of all the summits on the main chain of mountains including the one now called the Jochköpfl.
[Ludwig Purtscheller in Eduard Richter (ed.): ''Die Erschließung der Ostalpen, II. Band'', Verlag des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenvereins, Berlin, 1894, pp. 424 ff.]
References
Literature and maps
*Walter Klier: ''
Alpenvereinsführer
The ''Alpine Club Guides'' (german: Alpenvereinsführer, commonly shortened to ''AV Führer'' or ''AVF'') are the standard series of Alpine guides that cover all the important mountain groups in the Eastern Alps. They are produced jointly by the Ge ...
Stubaier Alpen'', Munich, 2006,
*
Alpenvereinskarte 1:25.000, Blatt 31/1, ''Stubaier Alpen, Hochstubai''
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Alpine three-thousanders
Mountains of Tyrol
Mountains of the Alps
Stubai Alps