The Härmelekopf is a mountain northeast of
Seefeld in Tirol
Seefeld in Tirol is an old farming village, now a major tourist resort, in Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol with a local population of 3,312 (as of 1 January 2013). The village is located about northwest of Inn ...
in the
Karwendel
The Karwendel is the largest mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps. It is located on the Austria–Germany border. The major part belongs to the Austrian federal state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol, while the adjacent area in the north is part ...
Alps in the
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
n state of
Tyrol
Tyrol ( ; historically the Tyrole; ; ) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, f ...
. It is 2,224 metres high.
[''Seefeld Leutasch'' 1:25,000 hiking map, Wanderland-Verlag, 4th edn., 2011.]
Ascent
About 400 metres from the summit of the Härmelekopf is the
top station
A top station or upper stationFor example, se''Chairlift Blausee (upper station)''at www.outdooractive.com. Retrieved 15 May 2019. is usually the highest station of an aerial lift, a funicular, a T-bar lift or a rack railway. The lowest station is ...
of the ''Härmelekopfbahn'' cable car, from where there is a steep and difficult path to the top which then continues along an arête to the
Reither Spitze.
[ Another easier path leads from the top station and then forks, the left branch making for the Reither Scharte and the right branch for the ]Nördlinger Hut
The Nördlinger Hut () is an Alpine Club hut belonging to the German Alpine Club that is situated at a height of south of the summit of the Reither Spitze in the Austrian state of Tyrol (Bundesland), Tyrol.''Seefeld Leutasch'' 1:25,000 hiking ma ...
.[
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Industry
On the western side of the mountain, at between 1,500 and 1,700 metres, are the remains of old mine workings.[
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Skiing
The western side of the Härmelekopf is also part of the Rosshütte ski area
A ski area is the terrain and supporting infrastructure where skiing and other snow sports take place. Such sports include alpine and cross-country skiing, snow boarding, tubing, sledding, etc. Ski areas may stand alone or be part of a ski resort. ...
. In addition to the cable car from the Rosshütte itself, there are lifts from Seefeld (the ''Hochangerbahn'') and the ''Reiterjoch Alm'' (the ''Reiteralmbahn'').[
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References
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Mountains of Tyrol (federal state)
Two-thousanders of Austria
Mountains of the Alps