The German Alpine Sektion Tutzing has maintained a mountain hut
at the foot of the northern wall of the Benediktenwand at 1327m
sealevel since more than 90 years. It offers accomodation and food
and drinks for the visitors. It can be reached only by
walking/hiking on forrest roads and mountain paths. Since years the
hut could no longer fulfill the requirements of the laws for public
hygiene, storing of food and drinks,waste reduction, kitchen
cleaniness, precautions against fire, safety regulations for work,
warmth isolation, pollution reduction, space for the visitors in
the sleeping quarters a.s.o.. Written orders of the supervisor of
the region, reduced numbers of visitors, increasing costs for
maintenance and also increasing critics of all sides concerned
about increasing environment pollution, required from the owner the
complicated planning of a huge number of measures against.
Following the equal evaluation results of a number of neutral
specialists one could only have a economically and technically
sufficient solution by building a new hut.
In december 1998 the management of the Sektion Tutzing decided in
coordination with the German Alpine Association in Munich to build
a new hut.
With this decision free room had been given to fulfill the main
efforts construction engineering, house devices engineering and
preventing pollution control with the latest state of the art, and
to coordinate all individual measures exactly. With the selection
of building material such products were preferred which are
produced and to be worked with environment friendly.
Because big or heavy items ( more than 120kg) only could be brought
to the building area via helicopter one had to watch especially for
little weight and small size. All used material had to offer a long
life, small environment friendly maintenance and recycling. A very
important aspect was to save energy wherever an opportunity has
shown, f.i. by avoiding "energy eaters" or choice of an environment
friendly technics.
Instead producing electric energy with gas and then operate the
heating or cooling by electric energy, it is possible to operate
heaters and coolers directly by gas. With electric generators
driven by motors you can "rewin" 2/3 of the consumed energy (fuel
or gas) as warmth for the hut by using suitable devices.