Ammersattel

Ammersattel
Alpine meadows near the top of the pass
Compass direction	southwest	Northeast
Pass height	1115  m above sea level A.
state	Tyrol	Bavaria
Watershed	Torsäulenbach, Archbach , Lech , Danube	Neualmbach , Linder , Ammer , Isar , Danube
Valley locations	Reutte	Ettal
expansion	State Road 255	State Road 2060
Built	1852
Mountains	Ammergau Alps
Map (Tyrol)
Coordinates	47 ° 32 '0 "  N , 10 ° 53' 3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '0 "  N , 10 ° 53' 3"  E

The Ammersattel is a 1115  m high mountain pass in the Ammergau Alps in Tyrol .

location

The Ammersattel is located in the Austrian Ammerwald about 250 m south of the German border and about one kilometer west of the point where the road is 1083  m above sea level. NHN Höhe crossed the Fischbach in the course of the state border.

The pass road runs between the Hochplatte ( 2082  m ) in the northwest and the Scheinbergspitz ( 1929  m ) in the north as well as the Kreuzspitz ( 2185  m ) in the southeast and the Geierköpf (up to 2161  m ) in the southwest, of which the first three mountains in Germany rise .

history

The road over the Ammersattel was built in the 19th century under King Maximilian II of Bavaria and inaugurated in 1852. A memorial in the village of Plansee, erected there in 1872, commemorates the construction of the road.

traffic

Car park one kilometer east of the Ammersattel

The road leading over the Ammersattel (in Germany: Bayerische Staatsstraße 2060; in Austria: L 255 Planseestraße ) connects Ettal near Oberammergau (in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district ) and Reutte in Tyrol (in the Reutte district ).

The distance between the two border towns is 35 km, at the steepest point the pass road has a gradient of up to 12%. The mostly curvaceous side road, which is a little more curvy at the top of the pass, branches off the B 23 in Germany near Ettal and in Austria off the Fernpass road (B179) near Reutte . It leads from the northeast through the Graswang valley along the Linder , the upper course of the Ammer , which partly seeps into the permeable, chalky subsoil , over Graswang and past Linderhof Castle up to the top of the pass. On the Austrian side, it leads over Plansee through the valley of the Plansee down to Reutte . Thus, the Ammersattel connects the Ammertal or the east of Ettal preferred Loisachtal with the Lech .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BayernAtlas 1: 25,000 , accessed on March 1, 2018.