Klause (bottleneck)

A hermitage is a bottleneck , usually a narrow, steep breakthrough valley ( gorge , gorge ). It is generally caused by receding erosion .

The name is in the Alpine area native and is derived as a loan word from the Latin of claudere "close" from.

Examples

• Inntal near Finstermünz , border between Switzerland and Tyrol ,
• Narrow point of the Steyr in south-eastern Upper Austria ,
• Klause near Mödling south of Vienna ,
• Klause in Lochau - Tannenbach , Vorarlberg . This is located between Lake Constance and Pfänderstock. It was part of the fortification during the Thirty Years War .
• Salurner Klause in the Adige Valley on the border between South Tyrol and the Italian-speaking Trentino .
• Klus (Prättigau) in the Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland
• Kluse in the valley of the Leine in Lower Saxony between the wide Leinegraben around Göttingen and the valley from Kreiensen, which again runs in a northerly direction

Place names

In some areas, the vernacular also means “die Klaus” or “die Klausen” ( sing. ), From which a number of place names are derived

• Klaus (Vorarlberg)
• Klaus at the Pyhrnbahn
• Klausen (South Tyrol)
• Cluj-Napoca
• Klausen (Eifel)
• Klausen-Leopoldsdorf (Lower Austria)

often is also:

• Klausbach

Italian equivalent:

• Chiusa , Chiusi

See also

• Klus (Quertal in the Swiss Jura)