Piz Cagniel

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Piz Cagniel
Piz Cagniel captured by radons

Piz Cagniel captured by radons

height 2975  m above sea level M.
location Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland
Mountains Oberhalbsteiner Alps
Dominance 1.71 km →  Piz Forbesch
Notch height 226 m ↓  Fuorcla Cagniel
Coordinates 761 214  /  152 875 coordinates: 46 ° 30 '28 "  N , 9 ° 32' 21"  O ; CH1903:  761,214  /  152 875
Piz Cagniel (Canton of Graubünden)
Piz Cagniel

The Piz Cagniel (hardly from the older Rhaeto-Romanic cugniel , diminutive to cugn , Latin cuneus for 'wedge', but rather syncopated from Rhaeto-Romanic calcagniel , diminutive to calcogn , Latin calcaneum for 'heel') is a mountain west of Mulegns in the canton of Graubünden in the Switzerland with an altitude of 2975  m above sea level. M.

Location and surroundings

In the middle the Piz Cagniel, to the left of it Fuorcla Cagniel and Piz Forbesch, to the right Fuorcla Curtegns and Usser Wissberg , behind that Piz Platta and in front of it Fuorcla Starlera , Murter and Piz Alv .

The Piz Cagniel is the southwest end of the Forbesch-Arblatsch massif , a subgroup of the Oberhalbsteiner Alps . It is located entirely in the municipality of Surses . The Piz Cagniel is bordered in the north by the Val Curtegns , a side valley of the Val Nandro and in the southeast by the Val Gronda , a side valley of the Val Faller . Both are in turn side valleys from the Oberhalbstein .

The neighboring peaks include Piz Forbesch and Piz Arblatsch in the northeast, Piz Platta in the southeast, Usser Wissberg in the southwest and Murter and Piz Mez in the northwest. South of Piz Cagniel is the Fuorcla Curtegns , west of the Fuorcla Starlera and northeast the Fuorcla Cagniel .

The farthest visible point ( 48 ° 14 '43 "  N , 9 ° 29' 17.6"  O ) is exactly north a hill at the Piz Cagniel Zwiefalten , a community in the district of Reutlingen about halfway between Stuttgart and Lake Constance . The point is 193 km from Piz Cagniel.

The valley location is Mulegns, where radon starts frequently in the Val Nandro, Tga in the Val Faller or Ausserferrera in the Averstal .

Routes to the summit

Over the northeast ridge

  • Starting point: Mulegns ( 1482  m ), Tga ( 1927  m ) or Radons ( 1893  m )
  • Via: Fuorcla Cagniel
  • Difficulty: WS
  • Time required: 4¼ hours from Mulegns, 3¼ hours from Tga or 3¾ hours from Radons (50 min from Fuorcla Cagniel)

Over the west ridge

  • Starting point: Mulegns ( 1482  m ), Tga ( 1927  m ), Radons ( 1893  m ), Cresta ( 1959  m ) or Innerferrera ( 1481  m )
  • Via: Fuorcla Curtegns
  • Difficulty: WS , to Fuorcla Curtegns as trail white-red-white highlighted
  • Time required: 4¾ hours from Mulegns, 3¾ hours from Tga, 4¼ hours from Radons, 3½ hours from Cresta or 5¼ hours from Innerferrera (1¼ hours from Fuorcla Curtegns)
  • Note: For routes to Fuorcla Curtegns see the article Fuorcla Curtegns .


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literature

  • Manfred Hunziker: Club guide, Bündner Alps . Obverse. 1st edition. tape III . Verlag des SAC, 1994, ISBN 3-85902-140-0 , p. 259-260 .
  • National map of Switzerland, sheet 1256 Bivio, 1: 25,000, Federal Office of Topography, 2015 edition.

Web links

Commons : Piz Cagniel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 71 .
  2. ↑ Calculated 360 ° panorama ( U. Deuschle ; information ) from Piz Cagniel