Chrüzli Pass

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Chrüzli Pass
Chrüzlital with Chrüzlipass (from the west)

Chrüzlital with Chrüzlipass (from the west)

Compass direction northwest Southeast
Pass height 2347  m above sea level M.
Canton Uri Grisons
Watershed (Etzlibach, Chärstelenbach , Reuss , Aare , Rhine ) (Strem, Vorderrhein , Rhine )
Valley locations Amsteg Sedrun
expansion Mule track
Mountains Glarus Alps
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Chrüzlipass (Switzerland)
Chrüzli Pass
Coordinates 700116  /  175 425 coordinates: 46 ° 43 '21 "  N , 8 ° 44' 54"  O ; CH1903:  700116  /  175425
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The Chrüzlipass is a mountain pass in the Glarus Alps . At an altitude of 2347  m above sea level. M. it connects the towns of Amsteg in the canton of Uri and Sedrun in the canton of Graubünden . A mule track leads over the pass .

location

Signpost at the top of the pass

The pass lies between the Witenalpstock ( 3016  m ) in the north and the Chrüzlistock ( 2717  m ) in the southwest. The Oberalpstock lies further to the northeast . The Gotthard base tunnel of the Gotthard axis of the NEAT runs under the pass .

From the rear Etzlital, a side valley of the Maderanertal , the path climbs through the Chrüzlital east to the top of the pass. At the beginning of the Chrützlital, where the Etzlital turns west to the Pörtlilücke , is the Etzlihütte .

On the other side of the Chrützli Pass, the path leads down into Val Strem , which is reached at Alp Strem, and continues through the valley to Sedrun. The Val Strem, on the other hand, has been closed in the middle part since a rock fall in 2016 (updated in summer 2019), as an even larger demolition is feared. The exclusion zone must be bypassed over a large area with a 300 meter high ascent to Alp Caschlè. As an alternative, there is the path over Mittelplatten ( 2,484  m above sea level ) and the Val Milà.

history

It is believed that the Chrützlipass was already used in the Iron Age . For a long time it served as a connection not only from the Tujetsch to the north, but also from the southern side of the Alps in connection with the Lukmanier Pass . The residents of Tujetsch use the pass to sell small cattle to central Switzerland and for pilgrimages to Einsiedeln . He also linked the monasteries Disentis and Engelberg .

During the Second Coalition War in 1799, Austrian troops topped the pass.

literature

  • The Krüzli Pass . In: Raststättegesellschaft N2 Uri AG (Ed.): Traffic routes in Uri: Surenen, Chinzig Chulm and Krüzlipass . Uri 1999 ( historia-tujetsch.ch [PDF; accessed on August 6, 2019]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Val Strem exclusion zone. In: Tujetsch community. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ wehm: Val Strem - The next rock fall is sure to come. In: SRF 1, Graubünden regional journal. October 30, 2017, accessed August 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Adolf Collenberg: Chrüzlipass. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  4. ↑ From Sedrun over the Chrüzli Pass. In: SAC. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .