Pasterzenhaus
High Tauern
View of the Pasterze Lodge with the Sacred Heart Chapel below the access road leading to the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe and the Pasterze Glacier.
The chapel was consecrated in 1926 – it remains Carinthia’s highest place of worship to this day. The road on which it stands was built between 1930 and 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, with up to 4,000 workers on site at any one time. The aim was to create a new north-south link across the main Alpine ridge, but also to provide work for people who otherwise had none.
By the end of September, the grass at this altitude had long since turned yellowish-reddish – the short summer on the High Alpine Road.





























