Kaiserjägerstrasse
| Kaiserjägerstrasse | |||
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 One turn on Kaiserjägerstrasse |
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| Compass direction | North | south | |
| Pass height | 1261 m slm | ||
| province | Trento (Region Trentino-South Tyrol ) | ||
| Valley locations | Caldonazzo / Levico Terme | Albergo Monte Rovere | |
| expansion | Strada provinciale SP 133 | ||
| Built | 1911 | ||
| Lock | Cars> 2.5 m high / wide; > 3.5 t; buses | ||
| Mountains | Vicentine Alps | ||
| particularities | Max. 30 km / h | ||
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 57 '56 " N , 11 ° 17' 41" E | ||
The Kaiserjägerstraße (also: Kaiserjägersträßchen , - away - sidewalk , ital. : Strada del Menador ; Cimbrian : Las ) is a ten kilometer long Alpine road in the Italian province of Trentino and leading from Valsugana on the plateau of Lavarone .
history
Centuries ago a mule track , then called the "Menatorweg", led from Valsugana to the Lavarone plateau.
Today's road was built in 1911 as a war road on the Kaiserjägersteig , which was laid out by the Austrian Kaiserjäger in the 1870s and 1880s, to transport material for the construction of the fortifications in the border area between Austria-Hungary and Italy , the later Italian front , to the south of the road . In the vicinity there are seven former Austrian barriers that were built during this period. The Verle plant and the Gschwent plant, which has now been converted into a museum , are just a few kilometers away .
In the 1960s, the road was difficult to drive due to some very tight bends . Only recently has the road been paved throughout and provided with edge protection.
Location and surroundings
The Kaiserjägerstraße, Strada provinciale SP 133, leads from Caldonazzo (or Levico Terme , each at about 500 m slm ) to the highest point of the route near Piazzo Alto at 1261 m slm about 200 meters further, at an altitude of 1248 m slm , the road then meets the Strada Statale SS 349 at Albergo Monte Rovere .
The continuously asphalted, partly only one-lane road leads over eight hairpin bends built tightly against the mountain slope of Monte Pegolara , under rock overhangs and through two short, unlit tunnels. In the upper area of Kaiserjägerstraße there is a small car park with a viewpoint that offers a panoramic view over the Valsugana with the Lago di Caldonazzo and the Lago di Levico .
A good two kilometers east of the upper end point is the Passo Vezzena ( 1417 m slm ) on the SS 349 .
traffic
The interesting street layout, view and history make Kaiserjägerstraße touristically significant; otherwise it is only of local significance for traffic.
Due to the cramped conditions on the mountain slope, Kaiserjägerstraße is closed to larger vehicles and the maximum speed is limited to 30 km / h. In the Denzel scale , the road has a technical difficulty level of 3.
designation
The name Kaiserjägerstraße is - similar to Kaiserjägersteig and Kaiserweg - used for several paths (allegedly) built by the Austrian Kaiserjäger. Examples of other ways named with the term Kaiserjäger as an eponym are:
- Alte Centa-Straße : Not far from today's street is a street supposedly built by the Kaiserjäger in 1908 ( Lage ). This leads from Caldonazzo past the former Osteria Alla Stanga (then the toll station of the road) to the plateau near Virti. Due to its location only a little east of the Centa river, it is often called "old Centa Street". Today, however, this only exists as a path (Sentiero No. 219) and due to downhill slopes it can only be walked with climbing equipment in parts. Kurt Mair reports in his book “The High Roads of the Alps” in the 1965 edition that he used this road earlier, but at that time it was no longer accessible by car. He calls this street Kaiserjägerstraße - but at least today this name is no longer in use.
- Lagazuoi-Kriegssteig : An easier via ferrata from the Tre Sassi plant on the Valparola Pass to the summit of the Kleiner Lagazuoi (2762 m) is called Kaiserjägerweg , Kaiserjägersteig or Lagazuoi-Kriegssteig ( location ).
- Kaiserjägersteig : Another difficult via ferrata, built in 1915 and reconstructed in 1996, which leads from Val di San Nicolo to Col Ombert (2670 m), is also called Kaiserjägersteig ( location ).
Web links
- Kaiserjägerstraße at gs-enduro.de
- Kaiserjägerstraße at alpenrouten.de
- Kaiserjägerstraße at quaeldich.de
- Photo gallery: Ascent by bike on Kaiserjägerstraße
Individual evidence
- ↑ Umberto Patuzzi: Unsarne Börtar ( Italian, German, Cimbrian ). Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Unity Committee of the historical German-speaking islands in Italy, Lusern, Italy 2013, p. 9.
- ^ Ernst Steinicke: Geographical excursion guide: European region, Tyrol, South Tyrol, Trentino. Special excursions in Trentino and Ladinia , Geography Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-901182-36-5
- ↑ a b c d Kurt Mair: The elevated roads of the Alps . 9th edition; Richard Carl Schmidt & Co Braunschweig 1965, ISBN 3-901182-36-5
- ↑ a b Harald Denzel: Great Alpine Road Guide . 22nd edition; Denzel-Verlag Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-85047-764-9
- ↑ http://www.openstreetmap.org
- ↑ a b Viewer of the Portale Cartografico Nazionale , Comune LUSERNA, IGM 25,000
- ↑ Video of a motorcycle ride on the "Kaiserjägerstrasse"
- ↑ The Kaiserjäger, who were a normal infantry unit, are credited with building several roads in secondary literature, but they were technically unable to do this because of the widely dispersed deployment.
- ↑ http://www.moesslang.net/strasse_von_caldonazzo_-_lavaronne.htm
- ↑ http://www.bergablebnis.com/meineklettersteigerouren/Lagazuoi/Lagazuoi.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Werner, Kürschner, Huttenlocher, Hemmleb: Via ferrata atlas Alps . 6th edition; Bergverlag Rother GmbH Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7633-8087-9
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