Pass Thurn Strasse
| State road B161 in Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Start of the street: |
Mittersill ( 47 ° 17 ′ N , 12 ° 29 ′ E ) |
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| End of street: |
St. Johann in Tirol ( 47 ° 31 ′ N , 12 ° 25 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 35.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Pass Thurn Straße , written in Tyrol Pass-Thurn-Straße ( B 161 ) is a state road in Austria . It connects the valley of the Salzach im Pinzgau with the Leukental over a length of 35.5 kilometers . The road is named after the 1274 m high Thurn Pass , on which it crosses the Kitzbühel Alps on the border between the federal states of Salzburg and Tyrol . Larger places are Mittersill on the Salzach as well as Kitzbühel and St. Johann in Tirol in the Leukental.
history
The Thurn Pass has been used as a pass crossing since the Bronze Age at the latest (mining). Thurntauern is mentioned in a document in 1292, by the Salzburg archbishops - at that time the Tyrolean side also belonged to the archbishopric - it was integrated into the network of the Tauern passes ( Tauernhaus and the Tyrolean side of the Spitalerhof near Jochberg).
The Paßthurner Reichsstraße (Piesendorf – Pass Thurn, as well as the connection Pinzgauer Reichsstraße Piesendorf – Taxenbach towards Pongau) was expanded as Reichsstraßen 1836–1840 at the expense of the Austrian state, so that the strategically important road connection between Salzburg and Tyrol was preserved in the event of a Bavarian attack stayed. After the construction of the Giselabahn , this road lost its national importance. In 1893 there were two toll stations on this road in Stuhlfelden and on Pass Thurn, at which four cruisers per draft animal had to be paid.
The ascent from Mittersill (Alte Pass-Thurn-Straße) was not spectacular on the valley slope, as it is today, but past Burg / Feste Mittersill via Weißenstein - Mayrhofen (today the route of the long-distance hiking trail Zentralalpenweg 02A / Arnoweg ).
The Pass-Thurn-Strasse is one of the former imperial roads that were taken over as federal roads in 1921. Until 1938 the Pass-Thurn-Straße was designated as the B 54, after the connection of Austria the Pass-Thurn-Straße was designated as Reichsstraße 330 until 1945 .
Between 1948 and 1972 only the Tyrolean section between St. Johann and the eponymous pass was referred to as Pass Thurn Strasse , while the Salzburg section was designated as Salzachtal Strasse . Both route sections were numbered B 159 from 1949 to 1972. Since 1973, the route between Mittersill and Kitzbühel has been continuously referred to as Pass Thurn Straße (B 161).
With the construction of the Felbertauern tunnel in 1967, the Thurn Pass became important again, as the only connection between North Tyrol and its exclave East Tyrol . Since Austria joined the EU and in particular the Schengen Agreement in 1995, this aspect has largely lost its importance. Today the route St. Johann in Tirol - Saalfelden ( B 164 ) is much more important for long-distance traffic , the Pass Thurn Straße is only important for regional traffic and is especially known as a tourist panorama road.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Decision of the Tyrolean Parliament of May 15, 2002, published in the State Law Gazette No. 68/2002 ( Memento of the original of January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 65 kB)
- ↑ Steffan Bruns: Alpine passes - history of the alpine pass crossings. Volume 4: From the Danube to the Adriatic. Staackmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88675-274-4 ( table of contents )
- ↑ Road toll tariff for the toll stations set up in the Crown Land of Salzburg on the basis of the law of August 26, 1891 […] . LGBl. No. 34/1893.
- ^ Federal law of July 8, 1921, regarding federal highways. Federal Law Gazette No. 387/1921.
- ↑ Federal Roads Act of February 18, 1948, directory A.
- ↑ Number list of federal highways, Federal Law Gazette No. 238/1949.
- ↑ the route over the Gerlos pass through the Zillertal does not play a role in long-distance traffic
| B161 | Like the other former federal highways, Pass Thurn Strasse was part of the federal administration. Since April 1, 2002, it has been under state administration and continues to have the B in the number, but not the name Bundesstraße. |