The Bratschenköpfe, consisting of the ''Großer Bratschenkopf'' () and ''Kleiner Bratschenkopf'' (), are two peaks in the
Hochkönig massif
The Hochkönig is a mountain group containing the highest mountain (Hochkönig) in the Berchtesgaden Alps, Salzburgerland, Austria. The Berchtesgaden Alps form part of the Northern Limestone Alps.
Location
It lies to the west of the town of Bis ...
in the
Berchtesgaden Alps
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. The lie in the district of
St. Johann im Pongau in the
Austria
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n state of
Salzburg
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.
The Großer Bratschenkopf may be climbed on a trackless route from the north from the crossing between the
Arthurhaus and the
Matrashaus (
grade
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: easy). The Kleiner Bratschenkopf to the east may be reached from the same route (grade I).
Across the south face of the Großer Bratschenkopfs runs the
climbing route
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known as ''Freier als
Paul Preuß'' by Albert Precht (first climb, 1986,
free solo
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, grade VII, face height 900 metres).
Literature
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* Albert Precht: ''Alpenvereinsführer Hochkönig''. 1st edition, Bergverlag Rother, Munich, 1989, .
* ''Freier als Paul Preuß.'' In: Adi Stocker: ''Longlines – Die ganz großen Klettereien der Nördlichen Kalkalpen.'' Panico-Alpinverlag, Köngen, 2014, , pp. 160–164
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Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Salzburg (federal state)
Berchtesgaden Alps
Two-thousanders of Austria