Cotschen
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 Pass digls Orgels (left) and Cotschen (center), taken from Lai Tigiel |
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| height | 2827 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Albula Alps | |
| Dominance | 0.45 km → Pizza Grossa | |
| Notch height | 27 m ↓ ridge between Cotschen and Pizza Grossa | |
| Coordinates | 771 232 / 163786 | |
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 Piz Mitgel (left), Cotschen (middle) and Tinzenhorn (right), taken from Piz Furnatsch . |
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The Cotschen ( Rhaeto-Romanic in the idiom Surmiran for 'red') is a mountain east of Savognin in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland with a height of 2827 m above sea level. M. Because of the marked connecting trail from the pass digls Orgels to pass Ela d' leads almost the Cotschen, he is a frequently visited mountain.
Location and surroundings
The Cotschen belongs to the Bergüner sticks , a subgroup of the Albula Alps . The municipal boundary between Surses and Bergün Filisur runs above the summit .
The neighboring peaks include Piz Mitgel and Tinzenhorn in the north, Piz Ela in the east, and Piz Furnatsch and Pizza Grossa in the south.
West of the Cotschen is the often visited mountain lake Lai Tigiel ( 2462 m ). To the southeast lie the Laiets ( Romansh for 'Seechen') with an unnamed lake at 2647 m directly southeast of the Cotschen and Lai Mort ( 2603 m ) and Lai Grond ( 2594 m ), which is located southwest of Piz Ela.
The mountain is in the middle of Parc Ela , a 600 square kilometer nature park opened in 2006 .
Valley locations are Savognin and Tinizong . Frequent starting points are the Ela hut ( 2252 m ) in the lonely Val Spadlatscha and the Plang la Curvanera car park ( 1844 m ), which can be reached via a narrow alpine road .
The most distant visible point from the Cotschen is the 4505 m high Weisshorn between the Mattertal and the Val d'Anniviers in the Valais Alps and is 160 km away.
Routes to the summit
A marked connection path leads almost over the Cotschen from the digls Orgels pass ( 2699 m ) to the d'Ela pass ( 2724 m ). Frequent starting points from Oberhalbstein are the Plang la Curvanera car park ( 1893 m above sea level ), to which a small road leads from Savognin via Tussagn, and Pensa ( 1673 m above sea level ) in Val d'Err . The alpine road from Tinizong to Penza is closed to general motor vehicle traffic. A hiking bus runs from Savognin to Plang la Curvanera on Wednesdays and to Pensa on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Signpost on the digls Orgels pass .
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Over the digls Orgels pass
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Signpost on the Pass d'Ela .
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Over the Pass d'Ela
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panorama
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View to the southeast. In the foreground on the left Pass d'Ela , on the right the nameless mountain lake in front of the Piz Furnatsch . In the background v. l. No. Piz Ela , Fuorcla da Tschitta behind the Lai Grond , Piz Val Lunga , Piz Salteras , Piz Bleis Marscha , Piz Laviner and Piz Jenatsch .
View to the northwest to Lai Tigiel and Piz Mitgel .
View to the southwest to the Pizza Grossa .
literature
- Manfred Hunziker: Club guide, Bündner Alps . From the Septimer to the Flüela. 3. Edition. Vi. Verlag des SAC, 2000, ISBN 3-85902-187-7 , p. 220 .
- National map of Switzerland, sheet 1236 Savognin, 1: 25,000, Federal Office of Topography, 2015 edition.
Web links
- Panorama from the Cotschen
- Calculated 360 ° panorama from Cotschen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 80 .
- ↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 96 .
- ↑ Calculated 360 ° panorama ( U. Deuschle ; notes ) from Cotschen
- ↑ Bike & hiking bus timetable on the Savognin Bivio Albula holiday region website, accessed on April 8, 2018