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The Ulm Hut

is an alpine club hut of the Ulm section of the German Alpine Club eV in Vorarlberg. It is located in the Lechtal Alps at 2288 meters above sea level. The winter sports resorts around St. Anton am Arlberg, i.e. St. Christoph am Arlberg, Lech and Zürs are nearby and easily accessible. The Alpine Club hut was built in 1903 and has been expanded again and again since then. In the meantime it has more the character of a mountain inn.

reachability

The location of the hut allows skiers to easily reach the spacious ski areas on the Arlberg, because the slopes lead directly past the hut. The hut can be reached from Alpe Rauz on the Arlberg Pass road via the Valfagehrbahn chairlift. Ski tourers can reach the Valluga from the hut. In summer, the Ulmer Hütte is a base of the Lechtaler Höhenweg. At the same time, the Ulm DAV section has opened up a wide network of hiking trails and paths of all lengths and difficulties.

additions in summer

The easiest access is from St. Anton am Arlberg with the cable car to the Galzig and on the marked path over the Arlensattel, 1½ hours or with the cable car to the Valluga shoulder and descent over the Valfagehrjoch, marked path.

from St. Christoph am Arlberg, 1½ hours

from Stuben, 2 hours from Alpe Rauz

from St. Anton am Arlberg through the Steißbachtal, 3 hours

Neighboring huts and crossings

to the Stuttgarter Hütte via the Valluga shoulder, rope-secured Schrofen, approx. 3½ hours. The summit of the Valluga can be "taken along", marked trail, Schrofen, approx. 1 hour additional effort.

to the Stuttgarter Hütte via the Trittscharte, 3 hours. The descent from the Trittscharte can be problematic in late summer, due to the decline of the Pazüelferner, an unstable block slope has been exposed below the col (as of August 2006).

Boschweg via Trittscharte - difficult to pass - only for experienced alpinists!!

to the Leutkircher Hütte via the Valfagehrjoch. The crossing of the southern slope of the Weißschrofenspitze leads through a terrain that is considered somewhat unsafe and slightly at risk of falling rocks, here also rope insurance. From the Kapall junction, you can take a path that runs parallel to the south and below to the Bacheregg, where you return to the path to the Leutkircher Hütte.

Hikes and via ferratas

Trittkopf 2,719 m - walking time 2½ hours

Valluga 2,808 m - walking time 2 hours

Schindlerspitze 2,647 m - walking time 1½ hours

Arlberg via ferrata - walking time to the start 1 hour (walking time complete: approx. 4 hours)

From the hut chronicle

The Ulmer Hütte is a Category II Alpine Club hut and is owned by the Ulm Section of the German Alpine Club. When the Ulmer Hütte on the 5th September 1903, after its completion, nobody could have guessed that one day it would be in the heart of one of the most famous ski areas in the world.

While a modest 98 guests visited the hut in summer and 62 guests in winter in the first business year 1903/04, the number of guests grew steadily in the following years. Already in the winter of 1912/13 exactly 1000 guests visited the Ulmer Hütte. Even then it became apparent that winter would attract more guests than summer. In this context, the history of the Ulmer Hütte is closely linked to the development of alpine skiing on the Arlberg.

During the First World War, the Ulmerhütte remained closed. After Italy entered the war on the side of the Entente in May 1915, an air observation post was set up in the Ulmer Hütte, the meaning and purpose of which can of course be pondered in retrospect, because only one Italian aircraft is said to have shown itself.

In the winter of 1920/21 there was a new guest record with 2298 visitors, which increased even more in the following summer with 2865 guests. But the onset of inflation soon cast its shadow and the number of visitors dropped dramatically. Only the stabilization of the currency with the introduction of the Rentenmark in November 1923 had an abrupt effect on positive visitor numbers. The construction of a material cable car in 1938 brought a significant relief for the smelting works.

The number of visitors remained constant. In the war winter of 1940/41, the record attendance of 14,000 guests, including 7,000 overnight stays, was entered in the annals of the Ulmer Hütte. Amazing numbers when you consider that the operation and maintenance of the Ulmer Hütte was associated with all sorts of war-related difficulties and could still be maintained until the beginning of winter 1944. The hut was confiscated by the Hitler Youth for a short time in 1944/45 and closed to general traffic. Like all huts of German sections, it was confiscated abroad as German property and placed under the trusteeship of the Austrian Alpine Association, which lasted until 1956.

The maintenance work on the hut inside and outside shaped the following years. The opening of the Valluga cable car on 30. December 1954 meant a turning point for the Ulmer Hütte, located in the middle of the Arlberg ski area, and initiated its change from the refuge to the mountain inn of today. Constant pressure to adapt to the changing situation, especially in the sanitary area, required conversions, extensions and renovations, which cost a lot of money. The connection to the sewer alone, which took place in 1995, cost 320,000 euros.

The Ulmer Hütte underwent its last major renovation in the summer of 2003. For the 100th anniversary, the Ulmer Hütte experienced further harmonization. The lower gable sitting on top of the original cell was raised. The building was given a clearer and more compact exterior, along with a much-needed new roof. At the same time, this resulted in a reasonable design of the top floor, in which there are now attractive rooms with daylight and a fantastic view of the mountain panorama. The Ulmer Hütte, with its 52 overnight beds in two and four-bed rooms, has lost a lot of places because there are no more storage spaces. Our house guests particularly enjoy the freedom of rest and comfort that this creates.

Management was planned for the Ulmer Hütte from the start. The first leaseholder in 1903 was the owner of the Posthotel in Stuben, Friedrich Fritz and his wife Fanny. The couple Peter and Luise Riedel ran the Ulmer Hütte from 1945 to 1972 until Luise Riedel was no longer able to work for health reasons. This also ended the lease agreement with the owners of the Posthotel, most recently Hans Steiner.

In 1972, Franz Schweighofer became the leaseholder of the Ulmer Hütte until he left on January 1. May 1993 handed over the key to the hut to the new tenants Karin and Heimo Turin, who have since taken care of the well-being of the many guests with their team. 

(from Wikipedia)