Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe

Located on the Großglockner and has a height of 3798m, with a view of the Pasterze ...,.

This viewpoint in the Hohe Tauern is named after the visit of the imperial couple Franz Joseph I and Elisabeth, Sisi, in 1856. The 26-year-old monarch wanted to see the Pasterze and hiked for four hours with his entourage from Heiligenblut up the 1,100 meters in altitude to the point where this event can still be seen carved in stone today. It is the Kaiserstein on the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe. At that time, the Pasterze reached just as far as today's Freiwandeck car park and further down than the current Margaritze reservoir. Empress Elisabeth was content with a ride from Heiligenblut over a good 800 meters in altitude up to the Bretterboden, which was then called Elisabethruhe after her visit. In 1876, the Klagenfurt Alpine Club section built the Glocknerhaus on this spot with space for 40 people. During the construction of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, a dead-end road was built by 1932, and the road was led around the next Riedel directly to the Pasterze. The actual Franz Josefs Höhe was built there. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-H%C3%B6he

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