In the district

in the Gemärk, Gemärkpass
	The top of the pass with the preserved station building of the former Dolomitenbahn
Pass height	1530 m slm
expansion	Strada Statale 51 di Alemagna
Built	1829
Mountains	Dolomites
	map
Coordinates	46 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 10 ′ 13 ″ E Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 10 ′ 13 ″ E

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In the Gemärk (also Gemärkpass , Italian Passo Cimabanche , Ladin Sorabances ) is a 1530 m high mountain pass in Italy . The apex of the pass in the Dolomites lies in the province of Belluno ( Veneto region ), about a hundred meters west of the border with South Tyrol . At the top of the pass there is also the hamlet of Cimabanche, which consists of only a few houses. The top of the pass is part of the watershed between the rivers Etsch in the north and Piave in the south, both of which flow into the Adriatic Sea . The South Tyrolean parts of the pass ramp are placed under protection in the Fanes-Sennes-Braies Nature Park .

history

A road and important trade route has been running over the comparatively flat pass for centuries. Accordingly, the nearby St. Nicholas Church was built at the historic rest stop in Ospitale in 1226 . The later so-called “Strada Regia” connected Venice with Tyrol. In 1829 a new, better passable road was built (road across Gemärk, Strada d'Alemagna) , today's Strada Statale 51 di Alemagna (state road 51, abbreviated as SS 51), which connects Toblach and the Höhlensteintal in the north with the famous winter sports and Olympic site connects Cortina d'Ampezzo and the Valle del Boite in the south and continues via Calalzo to San Vendemiano . From the early 1870s, the famous mountain guide Santo Siorpaes from Cortina d'Ampezzo kk was a road keeper on the road to Gemärk. The Hotel Albergo Cimabanche was built and run by his sons Pietro and Giovanni on the pass . It was destroyed in the 1st World War in 1915, especially because the main battle line (Rufreddo valley position) ran a few hundred meters towards Cortina.

Former railway line

Between the First World War and March 13, 1962, the route of the Dolomite Railway , which ran parallel to the SS 51, ran over the Gemärk Pass. The above-ground routing of a railway line over a high mountain pass is a special feature, because vertex tunnels were usually built elsewhere for this purpose . A similar situation exists today nor in the four Alpine passes Bernina Pass ( Bernina Express ) Oberalppass ( Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn ), Brenner Pass ( Brenner railway ) and Brünigpass ( Brünigbahn ). The slight incline on both sides of the pass and the very low elevation of the pass for the region favored the completely above-ground route of the railway line. As with the four above-mentioned passes, there was also a train station on the Gemärk . From June 1, 1921 (commencement of civil passenger traffic, before that only goods and military traffic) it was primarily used to develop the hamlet of Cimabanche (the official station name was also in Cimabanche ). By means of a siding and trains passing were on the pass also possible. The station building right next to the street has been preserved to this day and is privately owned.

After the railway was shut down, its route was converted into the Langer Weg der Dolomiten cycle path .

photos

Pass summit, view to the north
South ramp

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