Ornpass

Ornpass
Orn, top of the pass
Compass direction	northwest	Southeast
Pass height	925  m above sea level M.
Canton	Canton Zurich	Canton Zurich
Valley locations	Wernetshausen	Forest ZH
expansion	Pass road
Mountains	Zurich Oberland
profile
Ø pitch	10% (200 m / 2 km)	7.7% (306 m / 4 km)
Map (Zurich)
Coordinates	709 297  /  238597 coordinates: 47 ° 17 '21 "  N , 8 ° 53' 1"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and nine thousand two hundred ninety-seven  /  238597

The Ornpass is a pass in the Swiss canton of Zurich in the municipality of Hinwil between Wernetshausen and Wald ZH . The pass is at an altitude of 925  m above sea level. M. on the southern slope of the Bachtel ( 1115  m ).

Old farmhouse in Orn on the road to the Bachtel

The hamlet of Orn lies on the Ornpass , 350 meters further south on the mountain slope of the hamlet of Niderorn.

In the Orn, a road branches off at the top of the pass that leads north to the summit of the Bachtel. To the southwest of the pass lies the Hochwacht hill ( 950  m ), on the northern slope of which the “Bachtel ski jump ” was formerly located.

The upstream line , a high-voltage overhead line , runs over the Ornpass .

Web links

• Hikr.org: Orn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Motorcycle and tours: Orn
2. ↑ Wandersite.ch: Hasenstrick - Orn - Bachtel
3. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 3: Krailigen - Plentsch . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1905, p. 680, keyword Orn, (Nieder and Ober)   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
4. ↑ National map. In: geo.admin.ch. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, accessed on July 23, 2020 ( Ort Orn (ZH) - Hinwil). 
5. ↑ Hinwil. In: Ski jumping hill archive. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .