Etzel (mountain)
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 Overlooking the Etzel of Kempraten from |
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| height | 1096 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Canton of Schwyz , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Schwyz Alps | |
| Dominance | 2.52 km → Stöcklichrüz | |
| Notch height | 138 m ↓ Etzelpass | |
| Coordinates | 700730 / 226 055 | |
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 Sea of fog over the Linth plain, seen from the Etzel |
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The Etzel ( 1096 m above sea level ) is a mountain between Lake Zurich and Lake Sihl in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland . The Etzel is called Pfäffikon's local mountain . Its name derives from Eczelin, Etzlin d. H. Elster off. The top 100 meters of the free-standing summit are wooded all around. On the northern flank facing Lake Zurich, the forest extends down to 800 m.
Below the summit is the top of the Etzel Pass with the St. Meinrad Chapel, named after Saint Meinrad von Einsiedeln .
geography
The Etzel largely determines the course of the Sihl , as it prevents it from flowing out of the Einsiedeln high valley directly into Lake Zurich . Instead, the Sihl is directed to the west, where it flows along the Höhronen to Sihlbrugg in the Sihltal . The topography on the Etzel favored the construction of the weight wall In den Schlagen , which has dammed the Sihlsee since 1937 , which feeds the associated Etzelwerk in Altendorf on the upper Lake of Zurich.
On Etzel, there are several military bunkers and fortifications that in World War II as part of the Redoubt Fortress system the dam site Etzel formed. Some of them are maintained by the Schwyzer Fortress Foundation and can be viewed.
Tourist development
The Etzel is a popular destination for hikes. The view extends in a northerly direction over Lake Zurich and Obersee with the lake dam from Rapperswil to the peaks of the Zurich Oberland , in a southerly direction towards the Sihlsee and the Mythen . There is a mountain inn on the summit.
In 1962 the Hoher Rohn section of the SAC issued a call for the preservation of the hilltop as a hiking area. Over a thousand Etzel friends followed the call and founded the Hoch-Etzel cooperative . With the money they had collected, they bought the mountain top and had the mountain inn built in 1963/65 by the architect Heinrich Kübler.
