Grain towers
| High Tauern / Korntauern | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Compass direction | North | south | |
| Pass height | 2459 m above sea level A. | ||
| district | Pongau , Salzburg | Spittal an der Drau , Carinthia | |
| Watershed | north of Tauernbach → Anlaufbach → Gasteiner Ache | south of Tauernbach → Seebach → Mallnitzbach → Möll | |
| Valley locations | Böckstein / Sportgastein | Mallnitz | |
| expansion | Mountain path | ||
| Map (Salzburg) | |||
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 2 '32 " N , 13 ° 10' 43" E | ||
The Korntauern (also: Hoher Tauern ) is a historically significant mountain pass that rises to 2459 m above sea level. A. connects the Salzburger Anlauftal (a side valley of the Gastein valley ) with the Carinthian Seebach valley. Heinz-Dieter Pohl interprets the name Korntauern etymologically as Carinthian Tauern . Today it is accessible by a hiking trail. With the Niedere Tauern it is summarized as the Gasteiner Tauern .
location
The Korntauern lies a little east of the railway Tauern tunnel and around seven kilometers east of the Mallnitzer Tauern . Located between Grünecker-See-Spitz ( 2468 m ) and Schönbretterkogel ( 2732 m ), it connects the Anlauftal over the Tauernbach valley with the Seebach valley and Mallnitz. To the north of the pass is the Große Tauernsee ( 2166 m ), south of the Kleine Tauernsee and the Grünecker See ( 2307 m ). The Tauernhöhenweg leading south connects the Mindener Hütte with the Hannoverhaus .
history
Early history and antiquity
Post-Ice Age stone ax finds near the Korntauern show that this pass was walked thousands of years ago. Finds from the Bronze Age , i.e. the 2nd millennium BC BC, indicate that the passage at the Hohe Tauern was used at that time. A road system high on the Korntauern, along the Mallnitz valley, which was always attributed to the early modern era, could only be identified as a Roman road in 1990 . In later times, the crossing over the Niedere Tauern lost its importance, but the one over the Hohe Tauern retained it until modern times.
The pass in modern times
From the late Middle Ages , at the latest , there was a lot of mule traffic over both passes and it is assumed that at least one of the two passes was kept open in winter. At least in the 16th century the mule track over the Korntauern is said to have been kept free in winter, which was built in 1506 by the Fuggerian trading empire. Some things are still unclear about the construction of this Fuggerweg, in some cases it is even being questioned completely, but on the other hand there are enough references to it.
The Korntauern was particularly popular in the 17th century. The most important goods were wine and salt. At the end of the 18th century, however, both passes fell back into insignificance, the road conditions on other passes were simply too good.
literature
- Liselotte Buchenauer , Peter Holl: Alpine Club Leader Ankogel and Goldberg Group . Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7633-1247-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Landscapes. In: members.chello.at. Retrieved June 24, 2016 .
- ↑ From hut to hut: Tauernhöhenweg - Ankogel and Goldberg groups , German Alpine Association
- ↑ http://www.salzburgmuseum.at/635.html?pmid=300 ( Memento from March 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Steffan Bruns: Alpine passes - from the mule track to the base tunnel, vol. 4