History

The shelter in the Zamser Grund was built in 1883 by the Prague section of the DÖAV. Its namesake was the section member Hermann Dominikus, a bookseller who gave the building to his section as a gift.

After the founder's death the Eder family of the Breitlahner inn bought the hut, before the well-known Zillertal mountain guide Hans Hörhager acquired it in 1890 and ran it until the end of the war in 1918. That same year the hut burned to the ground for unexplained reasons. Hörhager soon rebuilt it; it was later run by his daughter Lisl.

The entire Zamsergrund once belonged to the municipality of Pfitsch – today the Schlegeis reservoir largely lies here. Only in 1919 was the state border between South Tyrol (Italy) and Austria drawn along the watershed at the Pfitscher Joch. Until well into the 1990s, customs officers could still be found at the border station on the Pfitscher Joch, at over 2,000 metres altitude, occasionally conducting passport checks.