Axalphorn
| Axalphorn | ||
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 Axalphorn (left) |
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| height | 2320 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Bern , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Bernese Prealps | |
| Coordinates | 647 576 / 173424 | |
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The Axalphorn (also Axalphoren ) is a mountain in the Bernese Pre-Alps .
The Axalphorn is 2320 m above sea level. M. high and is located southeast of the Axalp . The municipal boundary between Brienz and Brienzwiler runs over the summit .
Since 1959, a Swiss Air Force cable car has been running from the valley (Aarboden) to the ridge west of the summit. The Axalp aircraft demonstration takes place on the southern slope . On April 18, 1968, a Hawker Hunter touched a crest of the West Summit here while taking photos for a book project . In the seventh fatal accident on this aviator firing range, the pilot Captain Paul Birrer, commander of Fliegerstaffel 11 and formerly the Patrouille Suisse , as well as the aviation photographer Ernst Saxer , who was on the ground, were killed.
Web links
- Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de géographie (editors): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1902, p. 115, keyword Axalphorn ( scan of the lexicon page ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Brotschi: Broken Wings. All accidents involving the Swiss Air Force. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2006, pp. 244–246.